.twitch
Is .twitch a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.twitch is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Amazon.
A brand-owned streaming name: useful to its owner and maybe to streamers, but not something outsiders can buy or resell.
the brand owner and its streaming platform, and potentially the creators who broadcast on it if channel-style addresses are ever offered
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 big-tech subsidiary's consumer platform brand where the creators, not the company, are the people whose working identity would hang off the string, so the TLD's value depends on persuading an independent creator base to adopt a landlord's namespace.
Same bet in miniature: a coined, non-dictionary platform name owned by a larger parent whose whole meaning is the user-generated community attached to it, applied for as a dot-brand with no generic fallback if the community moves on.
Same bet of a broadcast-to-followers social platform brand held by a large internet company, where the string's worth rests on creator-channel identities rather than on corporate marketing pages.
What a .twitch domain is
.twitch is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .twitch domain extension real yet?
.twitch 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 .twitch domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .twitch name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .twitch was .youtube, delegated on 29 August 2014.
Is .twitch a real TLD?
Not yet. .twitch is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .twitch is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Amazon · first recordedICANN
“ARSI2666T-T81909 · Amazon Registry Services, Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified-facts block records one application, from Amazon Registry Services, Inc., recorded as a brand-type application. A brand TLD is normally operated for the applicant's own use, so the best-fit buyer is the brand itself and its streaming service; there is no open registration market and therefore no aftermarket to speak of. By analogy (flagged as analogy), many brand TLDs from the earlier round were lightly used or not used at all, with a minority adopted as primary identity for marketing or product links, so expected utility over the next 5 years is modest and concentrated in the owner's hands. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations by third parties at volume or on price are not the model for a brand string, and brand signal to anyone other than the owner is zero. It is not in the 1-9 band because the string names a widely recognized live-streaming brand with a large creator community, which gives the owner a plausible, credible use (channel-style or campaign addresses) that a generic dictionary-word brand string would lack. The main market uncertainty is whether the operator ever opens the namespace to creators as channel addresses; if it stays a purely internal redirect namespace, value sits at the low end of this band.