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.

2018
Operating .Best since
70k
Domains under .Best
5
Continents served
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 70,000+ live domains as of September 2026, and continues to climb.

Domains under management
.Best domains, 2018 → today
70,000+ live .Best domains as of September 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.