The Australian Football League (AFL) is looking to establish a bigger presence on the internet and has applied for a new top-level domain ".afl".

The global governing body for domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in June 2011 approved the expansion of domain names beyond ".com" to ".anything".

The application period for the new suffixes opened in mid-January 2012 and closes in April 2012.

It costs $US185,000 ($A173,578) to apply to ICANN for a new suffix.