.speed
Is .speed a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .speed in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Namecheap named .speed as the replacement string of its .logic application.
A catchy word-ending for racing, delivery and performance brands, but few serious projects would make it their main address.
motorsport, logistics, performance-tuning, fitness and internet-speed brands wanting a punchy memorable suffix, plus domain-hack registrants (light.speed, warp.speed)
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
The 2012 applications making the most similar bet. Chosen by AI from every string in that round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet in adjective form: a single abstract performance-attribute word that no industry owns, acquired so a sponsor can brand a promise rather than claim a category of goods or a profession.
The list's other abstract quality noun — a virtue word whose value depends on persuading many unrelated industries that the attribute is worth putting their primary identity under, which is exactly .speed's dependency.
Also a non-category claim-word about performance in time, bought as a brandable slogan fragment rather than a noun anyone's identity naturally sits under, so it needs the same marketing push to mean anything.
What a .speed domain is
.speed is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .speed in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .speed domain extension real yet?
.speed is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .speed domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .speed name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .speed was .fast, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .speed a real TLD?
Not yet. .speed is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .speed as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Namecheap · first recordedICANN
“HEI2661T-T50116 · Hadar Exploration, Inc · replacement string of .logic”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). .speed is a broadly understood English word with real commercial reach across motorsport, courier and delivery, automotive tuning, running and fitness, and broadband/performance products, and it forms natural domain hacks (light.speed, warp.speed, top.speed), so registrations should happen at volume and on price with sustained low-level demand. It is not in the 50-69 band because none of those sectors is likely to treat a .speed address as a primary identity that needs no explanation; by analogy (flagged as analogy) with 2012-round single-word action or attribute strings such as .run, .racing, .express and .delivery, the pattern has been modest registration counts, heavy reliance on registrar promotions, and a thin aftermarket rather than a category standard. It is not in the 10-29 band because, unlike a joke or event-driven string, the word has genuine descriptive utility across several commercial categories and would likely see recurring small-business and product-landing use rather than purely vanity registrations. The one application on the record is a replacement string filed by Namecheap (Hadar Exploration, Inc), a registrar; registrar-operated TLDs tend (analogy, not a figure) to get prominent storefront placement, which modestly raises adoption likelihood but does not change the brand-signal ceiling. The word's slang drug meaning is a minor negative for some corporate buyers. Main market uncertainty: whether any single vertical (most plausibly motorsport or delivery) adopts .speed widely enough to make it a recognized category suffix rather than a scattered hack namespace; registration volumes, launch pricing and premium-name policy are unknown.