.avax
Is .avax a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.avax is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Red Rock (Cayman) Foundation.
A single-blockchain ticker namespace: real inside the Avalanche crowd, little meaning or resale value outside it.
avalanche-ecosystem builders, wallet users and token-community members who want a chain-branded handle or project address
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 coined, meaningless-to-outsiders name for a brand-new network/protocol, held by the organization that stewards it, wagering that an independent ecosystem of third parties will adopt the string as its native namespace rather than that an existing customer base will follow a familiar brand.
Same bet in a pre-crypto form: a coined platform word owned by one company but carried by an outside developer community, so the TLD only works if independent builders choose to wear the platform's name as their own identity.
Same shape of string doing the same job — a short opaque acronym that means nothing outside the technical ecosystem it names, where the buyer is a single platform owner betting its builder base will anchor identity on the platform's initials.
What a .avax domain is
.avax is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Crypto. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .avax domain extension real yet?
.avax 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 .avax domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .avax name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .avax was .frogans, delegated on 19 April 2014.
Is .avax a real TLD?
Not yet. .avax is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .avax is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Red Rock (Cayman) Foundation · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), near its top. The string reads as the ticker of the Avalanche blockchain, so the natural buyer is a project, wallet user or fan inside that one ecosystem; the record shows a single confirmed applicant (Avax Naming Limited) and no contention, consistent with a brand-adjacent community namespace rather than a contested generic. By analogy (flagged as analogy), on-chain naming systems tied to one chain have shown genuine identity demand within their ecosystem but little relevance beyond it, and demand tends to track token-cycle sentiment rather than steady business use; chain-branded DNS strings have not yet shown a sustained aftermarket. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations are unlikely to occur at volume or on price outside the ecosystem, and the brand signal is negative for anyone not building on that chain; it is not in the 1-9 band because a live developer and holder community exists and a chain-branded handle is a plausible primary identity for wallets and dapps within it. Main market uncertainty: whether the TLD becomes the ecosystem's wallet/identity layer (which would lift it toward a strong niche) or stays a promotional vanity string next to the generic TLDs those projects already use. Registration pricing, policy and any chain integration are unknown.