Platform 01 · Registry

domains.Best

The floor. An ICANN-accredited registry operating the .Best top-level domain since 2018 — the only superlative TLD built for an AI-mediated internet.

.Best is the foundation of the internet.Best stack: a wholesale registry rail that powers domain names for registrar partners worldwide, with the security, compliance, and resolution infrastructure of a tier-one operator.

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Operating .Best since
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ICANN
Accredited registry
ICANN-accredited trust
A fully accredited registry operating to the same standards as the largest TLDs — credibility your registrants and partners can rely on.
Semantic premium
The only superlative TLD. hotels.best or paris.best carry category leadership in the extension itself — meaning both humans and AI agents can resolve.
Global reach
A wholesale rail serving registrar partners across five continents, with IDN tables for internationalized names in scripts worldwide.
Security-first
DNSSEC-signed zones, active abuse operations, and RDAP for structured, privacy-aware registration data access.
Registrar-friendly
Standards-compliant EPP provisioning and stable APIs make onboarding .Best into any registrar stack straightforward.
Built to scale
Proven since 2018 and engineered for the ICANN 2026 round — ready for the next wave of AI top-level domains.

A namespace that keeps compounding

When discovery is mediated by AI, names that mean something become machine-readable real estate — and .Best has been compounding steadily since launch. The namespace has grown to 50k domains under management as of 15 June 2026, and continues to climb.

Domains under management
.Best domains, 2018 → today
~50k .Best domains as of 15 June 2026

As the only superlative TLD, .Best signals category leadership the moment an agent reads it — positioning the namespace for the next wave of AI-mediated demand.

Registry infrastructure

  • EPP — Extensible Provisioning Protocol for registrar integration.
  • RDAP — modern, structured registration data access.
  • DNSSEC — cryptographically signed zones for integrity.
  • Abuse operations — active monitoring and rapid response.
  • IDN tables — internationalized domain name support.

For registrars

A wholesale registry rail serving registrar partners across five continents since 2018 — stable, standards-compliant, and built to scale into the ICANN 2026 round. Partner with us to add the superlative TLD to your portfolio.