.anthropic
Is .anthropic a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.anthropic is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Anthropic.
A single-company brand domain: useful to its owner as a trusted namespace, but nobody else can buy or resell an address on it.
the applicant company itself and its product, security and developer-platform teams, as an owner-controlled namespace for official sites, APIs and agent endpoints; not for third-party registrants
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 existing English word that one technology company owns outright as its corporate identity, applied for by that company as a single-registrant namespace rather than as a category anyone else could buy into.
Same bet: an ordinary English verb carrying no commercial category meaning, claimed by the one software firm whose primary identity is that word, so the application succeeds or fails purely on the owner's willingness to run its own namespace.
Same bet in shape — a tech company's own distinctive name with zero third-party or generic demand behind it — but the word is coined rather than a repurposed dictionary term, so it carries none of the latent ambiguity a real word brings.
What a .anthropic domain is
.anthropic is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .anthropic domain extension real yet?
.anthropic is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .anthropic domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .anthropic name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .anthropic was .oracle, delegated on 3 March 2015.
Is .anthropic a real TLD?
Not yet. .anthropic is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .anthropic is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Anthropic · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified record shows one confirmed applicant, Anthropic, PBC, with no category tag and no contention, which is the shape of a closed dot-brand string: registrations are restricted to the owner, so there is no third-party demand, no aftermarket and no resale value in any address. By analogy (flagged as analogy), many dot-brand TLDs delegated in the 2012 round were used lightly, as redirects or for a handful of campaign and corporate properties, and a portion were later retired by their owners; a smaller set did move customer-facing or secure properties onto the brand namespace. The AI-company variant could carry more end-use utility than a typical dot-brand because an owner-controlled namespace is a natural home for phishing-resistant official endpoints, model and agent identity, and developer surfaces, which is why this is not scored in the 1-9 band: there is a realistic, if single-buyer, use with a strong inherent brand signal. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations cannot happen at volume or on price, the aftermarket is nil, and most analogous brand strings did not become a serious primary identity within five years. Main market uncertainty: whether the owner adopts it as a primary identity for its flagship products and APIs, or holds it mainly as a defensive and redirect asset, which is the common dot-brand outcome by analogy.