.algorithm
Is .algorithm a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .algorithm, 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 long, technical word that few companies would put after the dot; interesting to AI and dev projects but rarely a serious main address.
developers, AI/ML startups, quant and algorithmic-trading projects, and educators wanting a themed address for a tool, course, or side project rather than a primary company identity
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The logic behind every recommendation and decision.”
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: an abstract technical-practice noun with no owning community or profession, sold on the hope that data/AI-adjacent firms will put identity on a concept word rather than park it beside their .com.
Same bet: a bare abstract mass noun at the center of the technical zeitgeist, where the buyer is diffuse and value rests on conceptual prestige rather than on anyone's actual name or category membership.
Same generic tech-category noun aimed at the same builder audience, but it names a concrete product class people already sell, so registrant identity is easier to justify than for a pure method word.
What a .algorithm domain is
.algorithm 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 .algorithm today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .algorithm domain extension real yet?
.algorithm 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 .algorithm domain?
You can’t yet. A .algorithm 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 .algorithm was .analytics, delegated on 21 December 2015.
Is .algorithm a real TLD?
Not yet. .algorithm is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .algorithm 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
“.algorithm · Future Tech · “The logic behind every recommendation and decision.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string is semantically clear but structurally weak as an identity: at nine characters it is long, and businesses do not name themselves 'X Algorithm', so it lacks the natural suffix grammar that made short tech TLDs work. By analogy (flagged as such), long descriptive tech TLDs like .software, .systems and .engineering achieved volume registrations mainly on price with little primary-identity use and thin aftermarkets, and .algorithm addresses a narrower slice of the same buyers. I place it in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: it is above 1-9 because a real tech/AI buyer group exists and the word carries genuine topical pull in the current AI wave, but below 30-49 because sustained volume demand is unlikely when shorter, established tech TLDs already serve these buyers and the word resists brand use. The main market uncertainty is whether AI-era naming demand spills over from .ai into algorithm-adjacent strings strongly enough to create suffix-style adoption; verified applicant fact (a Beijing portfolio applicant with a published 323-string portfolio in the 2026 round) suggests a broad portfolio play rather than a category-anchored operator commitment, which I weigh neutrally on adoption likelihood.