Upcoming TLDs / .gaming
Can you register a .gaming domain?
Source: ICANN 2026 round applications, checked October 27, 2026. Not in the IANA root zone as of October 26, 2026.
What .gaming would mean
In their own words, from the public part of each application (question 118):
Gaming commonly refers to the activity or industry of playing, participating in, or providing games.
Gaming is the act of playing electronic or digital games for entertainment, competition, or skill-building, spanning consoles, PCs, and mobile devices. It blends strategy, reflexes, and storytelling, forming a global culture and industry
Gaming is the playing of games - video, board, tabletop, and party games and puzzles - together with the content, events, and gear that surround them.
GAMING refers to the activity, culture and ecosystem of playing, creating, publishing, streaming and competing in video games. The string denotes a broad digital namespace for players, creators, teams, games, brands and gaming services.
“Gaming” is the activity and culture of playing games, especially video and interactive games and esports. It is a broad entertainment and community field. Used here as an open namespace for the gaming activity, not for gambling.
GAMING is the activity, culture and industry of interactive play on computers, consoles and mobile devices, including the players, creators, media and communities built around it. Press start.
Who applied for .gaming
Acid Medal, LLC
US, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The mission of .GAMING is to provide a namespace associated with the concept of gaming as the activity or industry of playing, participating in, or providing games. The .GAMING gTLD is intended to serve a broad range of registrants and users, including individuals, businesses, organizations, communities, projects, and other entities that identify with, relate to, or wish to be associated with the concept represented by the applied-for string.
Cam Connecting SARL
MC, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
1. GAMING focuses on the act of gaming itself playing, streaming, competing, developing, and engaging in interactive entertainment across consoles, PCs, and mobile devices rather than the notion of a single game or games as static products.
Intercap Registry Inc.
KY, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The proposed .gaming top-level domain represents the everyday world of games and play - video games, board games, tabletop and party games, puzzles, and the content, events, and gear that surround them. Gaming is a mainstream pastime and a major category of entertainment, publishing, and commerce.
ULTRAVIEW AG
DE, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
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XServer Cloud Inc.
XServer Cloud Incorporated, JP, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The mission and purpose of the .gaming gTLD is to provide an open, community-oriented namespace for gaming as an activity and a culture — the people who play, watch, create and talk about video and interactive games. The focus is deliberately on the gaming ACTIVITY and its community (players, creators and audiences) rather than on any single product or publisher, and the TLD is oriented to video, interactive and competitive gaming (esports), NOT to gambling. Gambling is a distinct market served by dedicated strings (for example .casino, .bet, .poker); this application does not target it, and …
XYZ.COM LLC
US, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
1. Mission and purpose. This gTLD will be operated as an open, unrestricted generic top-level domain. Its purpose is to expand naming choice in the DNS by making this term available at the top level for any lawful use chosen by the registrant. Registrations will be available to all registrants on a first-come, first-served basis through ICANN-accredited registrars, subject only to the Registry Agreement, ICANN Consensus Policies, and applicable law. The applicant will not operate this gTLD on an exclusive basis.
What happens next
- April 30, 2026: Application window opened (done)
- August 12, 2026: Application window closed (done)
- October 7, 2026: Reveal Day: ICANN published every applied-for string (done)
- October 21, 2026: Replacement period ended (applicants could switch to a backup string) (done)
- November 17, 2026: String Confirmation Day: the final list of applied-for strings
- March 16, 2027: Community input and objections period ends
Dates from ICANN’s Reveal Day announcement, checked October 27, 2026. We re-check the applications every day and this page changes when they do.
When will .gaming be available?
ICANN has not set a date. The final list of applied-for strings comes on String Confirmation Day (November 17, 2026), community input and objections run until March 16, 2027, and ICANN processes applications after a prioritization draw in 2027. Registration opens only after ICANN delegates .gaming and its registry announces launch dates.