.stats
Is .stats a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.stats is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Intercap. Suffix Inc. named .stats as a backup string for its .share application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A clear word for data and sports-stats sites, but most will keep stats as a page on their main domain, not as a primary address.
sports-data publishers, analytics and dashboard products, and developers or teams publishing public metrics pages; secondarily domain investors speculating on short sports and data keywords
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .share application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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: a bare generic noun naming the measurement-and-numbers function itself, sold to vendors and practitioners whose whole product is quantified insight, so its value rests on the field's own vocabulary rather than on any brand.
Same bet one layer up the stack — an unowned mass noun for the raw material, attractive to the same information-supplier buyer, but broad enough to read as horizontal infrastructure where a clipped plural like the target reads as a specific publishing niche.
Same bet on a plain English noun for the artifact that numbers get packaged into, bought by whoever publishes findings for an audience, though its singular verb-like form invites news and complaint uses that dilute the pure data-publisher identity.
What a .stats domain is
.stats is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .stats domain extension real yet?
.stats is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .stats domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .stats name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .stats was .analytics, delegated on 21 December 2015.
Is .stats a real TLD?
Not yet. .stats is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .stats is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“IRI2679T-T90957 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary SI2639T-T42447 · Suffix Inc. · replacement string of .share · Deactivated”ICANN
“Catalog lists: .asap .create .future .lfg .mvp .out .pal .planet .research .share .tag .this .visit”Suffix Inc.
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). .stats is a short, universally understood generic word with real use cases: sports statistics sites, analytics and dashboard products, and public metrics pages for projects (a 'team.stats' or 'product.stats' address reads naturally). It is not in the 50-69 band because demand for .stats as a primary identity looks thin by analogy: 'stats' is conventionally a subdomain or a page on a brand's main domain (stats.example.com), so most serious projects would treat a .stats address as a pointer or a vanity redirect rather than their main identity, and the string describes a feature, not a business. By analogy to other descriptive-noun TLDs from the 2012 round (.report, .review, .guide, .live), such strings tend to register at volume on price promotions and settle into modest renewal bases with a thin aftermarket; this is an inference from analogy, not a measured outcome. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is not a joke or an event-driven fad: sports analytics, fantasy sports, public-health and finance data publishing are durable categories where a .stats address can be a sensible, sustained secondary brand, and sports and data keywords have genuine aftermarket interest for short left-hand strings. On the record, one confirmed standard application exists (Intercap Registry Inc.) with no contention noted, and a second application (Suffix Inc.) is deactivated; the applicant previously named .index as a primary string, now deactivated. A single uncontested standard applicant suggests an ordinary open-registration launch, which informs adoption likelihood neutrally. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether a 'public stats page' convention emerges, comparable to how status pages became a recognised category, with .stats as the expected address, or whether stats remains a subdomain habit on existing brand domains; the former would push the string toward the strong-niche band, the latter keeps it in the usable-but-limited band. Pricing tier and registrar promotion depth are unknown and would affect registration volume but less so primary-identity use.