.streamer
Is .streamer a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .streamer, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Will names sell?
A clear-meaning address for live streamers, but most creators live on platform handles, so serious use stays occasional over 5 years.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .streamer’s closest 2012 strings hold .actor 4K, .author 2 and .band 21K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .actor, held 3,612 names, June 2026. .author held 2; .band held 20,971. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a performer-profession noun sold as personal identity to individuals in an entertainment trade who already have a platform-owned presence, so it lives or dies on whether the person's craft label outranks the venue that hosts them.
Also a self-applied creator-profession noun whose buyers are individuals monetizing an audience through a dominant intermediary platform, though its holders are an older, less platform-native cohort than a livestreaming one.
Same bet on a self-identified entertainer claiming their act's name as primary identity for fan traffic and merch, differing only in that the unit is a group rather than a solo persona.
live streamers and video creators wanting a personal hub domain (link-in-bio, merch, VOD archive), plus talent agencies and creator-economy tools registering names for or around individual streamers.
What a .streamer domain is
.streamer is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. Nobody is chasing .streamer today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .streamer domain extension real yet?
.streamer 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 .streamer domain?
You can’t yet. A .streamer name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .streamer was .actor, delegated on 26 February 2014.
Is .streamer a real TLD?
Not yet. .streamer is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .streamer and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is semantically strong: 'streamer' is a genuine, growing identity noun, and name.streamer parses instantly as a personal creator address. But the core adoption problem is that streamers' primary identity is their platform handle; personal sites are secondary hubs, and the incumbents for that use already have mindshare among gamers and creators (by analogy: .tv and .gg are the established creator-adjacent choices, while .live and .stream saw registrations largely on price with weak brand signal and thin aftermarkets). Person-noun TLDs are, by analogy to .actor, .ninja and .guru, prone to launch spikes followed by decline rather than sustained primary-identity use. Registration counts, pricing, and renewal figures for all of these are unknown, so the comparison is qualitative. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evidence of sustained primary-identity demand from creators for any occupation-noun TLD, and the niche it targets is already served by entrenched alternatives; it is above the 10-29 band because the buyer population is large, global, and identity-motivated, exact-match handles have genuine defensive and vanity value, and a registry with an operating namespace track record (the applicant states it has run .best as a live namespace since 2018, with CentralNic as backend) makes competent go-to-market plausible. Main market uncertainty: whether creators shift meaningfully from platform handles to owned domains as their canonical hub in the next 5 years; if that shift happens, an occupation-exact TLD like this could outperform this score.