.yam

Is .yam a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?

Culture
applicants
  • Name Space LLCAnnounced
on the record since Aug 18, 2026 · updated Aug 18, 2026
AI score
18/ 100
Vanity and narrow

A quirky three-letter word ending with charm but no clear market; fun for food or meme projects, rarely a serious main address.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 18, 2026
AI score 18 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

food and lifestyle brands, meme-minded crypto and web-culture projects, and hobbyists who want a short, playful ending with no category baggage

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applicants
1 on file
Name Space LLCAnnounced
Aug 18, 2026

One of 10 strings Name Space LLC (led by Gerardo Aristizabal, who won .blog in the 2012 round) applied for in the ICANN 2026 round, reported by Domain Name Wire on 2026-08-18.

closest 2012 bets
3 of 1,408

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.

.ketchupstrong parallel
never delegated

Both are hyper-narrow single-foodstuff nouns rather than category words, so the bet is that one specific edible item can carry primary identity for a tiny, tightly-defined set of producers and sellers instead of a broad industry.

uncontested · scored 8* in 2012

.coffeemoderate
delegated 2013 · live

Same bet shape as a single-crop commodity generic whose registrant base is growers, traders, and retailers of that one plant, differing mainly in that coffee's buyer pool is global and enormous while a yam's is regional and thin.

uncontested · scored 45* in 2012 · run by Trixy Cover, LLC

.fishmoderate
delegated 2014 · live

Both are plain, unowned raw-food commodity nouns that have to work as an identity for an agricultural or harvest trade plus incidental food-culture sites, with no company or profession standing behind the word.

2 applicants contested it · scored 30* in 2012 · run by Fox Woods, LLC

* A separate 2012-only read, time-locked to what was public that year. Different scale from this page’s score — the two are not comparable.

history
  1. Name Space LLC · first recordedAug 18, 2026
    Domain Name Wire
news & sources
NewsName Space LLC applies for 10 TLDs in the 2026 round
Aug 18, 2026
We are thrilled by the opportunity to help expand the domain name space with innovative new alternatives.
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