.additive
Is .additive a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .additive, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A narrow word aimed at 3D-printing firms, but serious companies in that space are unlikely to make it their main web address.
additive-manufacturing (3D printing) startups, service bureaus, and machine vendors wanting a sector-flavored name; secondarily materials or chemicals brands where "additive" describes the product
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Building objects layer by layer.”
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.
Same bet: a single narrow technology-sector word opened as a namespace for the machine builders, materials suppliers and service firms of one emerging production technology, which only works if that whole supply chain treats the term as its primary identity.
Same bet on a technical-discipline word whose registrants are specialist industrial firms and practitioners rather than consumers, with the same ceiling — a serious but small professional population that already has strong corporate .com identities.
Structurally the same gamble: an adjective naming a production method, clipped from its two-word phrase, betting that everyone who makes things that way will adopt the standalone modifier as a badge of how they build.
What a .additive domain is
.additive is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody is chasing .additive today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .additive domain extension real yet?
.additive is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .additive domain?
You can’t yet. A .additive name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .additive was .solar, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .additive a real TLD?
Not yet. .additive is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .additive and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.additive · Energy & Mobility · “Building objects layer by layer.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place .additive in the 10-29 band (vanity/narrow). The best-fit market, additive manufacturing, is a real and growing industrial sector over the next 5 years, but by analogy with industrial-adjective TLDs such as .engineering and .industries — which saw modest registration bases and rare primary-identity use — an 8-character adjective suffix is unlikely to become a default identity for hardware companies that skew toward .com. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident registrar-channel or pricing dynamic that would drive volume registrations, and the string is an adjective rather than a noun a brand naturally ends in; it is above the 1-9 band because the sector is genuine and a handful of niche players could plausibly adopt it as a brandable suffix (e.g., a verb-noun.additive construction), by analogy with occasional creative use of .digital. The applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings, which reads as broad portfolio coverage rather than sector-anchored go-to-market, informing (neutrally) my expectation of limited industry-led adoption push. Main market uncertainty: whether the additive-manufacturing industry develops any appetite for a sector namespace at all, or stays fully on .com/.io as most industrial verticals have.