.vids
Is .vids a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.vids is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Google.
A slang video namespace that may sell on price and novelty but is unlikely to become a serious primary web identity.
video creators, clip-hosting and short-form content projects after an informal, memorable address rather than a formal brand
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.
Identical bet: a clipped, colloquial plural of a media-content noun sold as the casual everyday short form against the formal full word, aimed at anyone whose identity is "I make/host this kind of file."
Same medium, same buyer, same job as a category-noun home for creators and hosting platforms; the only difference is the unclipped singular form rather than the slang plural.
Also a three-letter shorthand for moving-image files serving video makers, but it bets on a technical file-format abbreviation rather than on how people casually say the word.
What a .vids domain is
.vids is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .vids domain extension real yet?
.vids 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 .vids domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .vids name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .vids was .pics, delegated on 18 January 2014.
Is .vids a real TLD?
Not yet. .vids is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .vids is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Google · first recordedICANN
“CRRI2564-T94856 · Charleston Road Registry Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. Video is a large and durable content category, so a .vids address has a real buyer pool and should see volume registrations at the right price point, which keeps it above the vanity band. But the string is slang, and by analogy the formal equivalent .video has not become a category default in its years of availability, while the category's primary-identity and aftermarket role is held by .tv (analogy from general market observation; no figures asserted). A truncated, informal string is unlikely to outperform its formal sibling as a serious primary identity, so it does not reach the strong-niche band where adoption is sustained and genuine. The sole applicant on the record is Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.), a standard application; by analogy with that operator's earlier strings, outcomes have ranged widely between strong developer-facing namespaces and little-used generic words, so operator identity alone does not lift the score. Main market uncertainty: whether short-form and creator-economy sites would actually choose .vids over .video, .tv or a .com, or treat it only as a redirect or vanity link.