.cake
Is .cake a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .cake in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Cake Wallet named .cake as the replacement string of its .xmr application.
A cute, narrow food-word ending that bakeries and party brands might enjoy, but few serious projects would build their main identity on.
bakeries, cake decorators, party and celebration businesses, and dessert-themed consumer brands wanting a playful memorable address
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 exactly: a single prepared-food item as the suffix, sold to a large population of small independent makers and shops who would put their shop identity on the name of the one thing they make.
Also a single consumable-product noun whose registrant base is small retail outlets and artisan producers, so it needs the same thing to be true -- that an exact-category suffix beats a .com for a local food business.
Another bare product-category noun bought by the trade that makes and sells that product, though the identity holders are commercial producers and merchants with much higher stakes per name rather than cake shops and decorators.
What a .cake domain is
.cake 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 .cake in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .cake domain extension real yet?
.cake 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 .cake domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .cake name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cake was .pizza, delegated on 27 August 2014.
Is .cake a real TLD?
Not yet. .cake is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .cake as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Cake Wallet · first recordedICANN
“X2689T-T73877 · Cake Labs LLC · replacement string of .xmr”ICANN
“.XMR — With the Monero ecosystem and Cake Wallet, for privacy-preserving payments. One of our strongest launches to date, with more than 1,800 names minted at release.”Unstoppable Domains
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at the upper end. The string is a single dictionary food word with a small but real end-use constituency: bakeries, cake decorators, wedding and party vendors, and dessert-themed consumer brands who could plausibly use name.cake as a primary identity, which keeps it above the 1-9 band. It is not in the 30-49 band because, by analogy with other single-food-word TLDs (.pizza, .coffee, .beer, .wine), such strings tend to see modest volume concentrated in small-business and hobby registrations with weak brand signal and almost no aftermarket, and .cake addresses an even narrower trade than pizza or coffee; demand is also event-driven (birthdays, weddings) rather than sustained, and .cake is unlikely to be a category default over the next 5 years when bakeries have long defaulted to .com and local-market endings (analogy, flagged). The verified record shows the single application comes from Cake Labs LLC (Cake Wallet) as a replacement string for .xmr, which suggests the operator's interest may be brand-led rather than a retail food-vertical registry; stated neutrally, that informs adoption likelihood because an operator without a food-vertical channel strategy makes broad open registration less likely, though the scoring assumes general availability regardless. The main market uncertainty is whether the operator positions .cake as an open generic for the baking and celebration trade (which could lift it toward the usable-but-limited band) or as a brand or crypto-community namespace with little outside demand (which would push it toward the low end of the vanity band).