.artisan
Is .artisan a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .artisan in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .artisan as the replacement string of its .creator application.
A pleasant maker-themed address with a real but small buyer group; most craftspeople will keep using marketplaces and .com.
independent makers and small-batch producers (craft food and drink, furniture, jewelry, ceramics, leather goods) and the agencies and marketplaces that serve them, plus lifestyle brands wanting a handmade signal
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 uncredentialed, self-applied craft-identity noun that an individual maker claims about themselves, where the registry is wagering that a large diffuse population of solo creators will pay to wear the label as their primary address.
Also a singular vocation word with no gatekeeper that individuals adopt as personal identity, but it points at a performer's portfolio rather than at goods being made and sold, so the commercial pull is thinner.
Structurally the same play — a singular maker-of-things profession noun used as practitioner identity — but it sits behind a licensing body and a defined professional register, whereas anyone can declare themselves an artisan.
What a .artisan domain is
.artisan is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .artisan in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .artisan domain extension real yet?
.artisan 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 .artisan domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .artisan name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .artisan was .author, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .artisan a real TLD?
Not yet. .artisan is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .artisan as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T76760 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .creator”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T90578 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-213 PTL2645T-T73740 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-213 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .robotics · Deactivated VIL2659T-T55269 · Verse International Limited · replacement string of .did · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a widely understood English word with a clear commercial meaning, and a maker or small producer could plausibly use something like name.artisan as a primary identity; that keeps it out of the 10-29 vanity band, where demand is event-driven or joke-only. It is not in the 50-69 strong-niche band because, by analogy (flagged as analogy), descriptor-noun TLDs aimed at small lifestyle businesses such as .boutique, .studio and .design have shown that even where registrations occur, genuine primary-identity use remains a minority behaviour and aftermarket activity is thin; .art, the closest analogue, achieved broader uptake but with heavy reliance on low-price acquisition rather than resale value, and .artisan is longer and more adjectival (people say 'artisan bread' or 'artisan coffee', so a .coffee or .com address often fits better than a .artisan one). Adoption dynamics work against it: the target buyers are small, price-sensitive, and already reach customers through marketplaces and social storefronts rather than owned domains, so demand would likely be registrar-promotion-driven and churn-prone over the next 5 years. On the record, the string is a replacement application by Radix Technologies Inc. for its primary string .creator, with no contention recorded and no category tag; an operator running a portfolio of generic strings can support registrar distribution, which modestly raises the chance of volume at price but does not change the brand-signal ceiling. Main market uncertainty: whether 'artisan' is read by buyers as a category noun they identify with (favouring primary-identity use) or as a marketing adjective (favouring other TLDs), and whether any registry-side pricing or vertical partnerships (craft marketplaces, food-and-drink trade bodies) would pull makers onto owned domains at all. Specific registration counts, prices and sales figures for the analogues are unknown here and are not asserted.