.chatgpt
Is .chatgpt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.chatgpt is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is OpenAI.
A closed brand TLD for one company's product: strong name recognition, but no open registrations and no resale market.
the applicant itself and its product teams, using the string for official product, support and anti-phishing addresses; not available to outside buyers
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 platform-software product name — not the corporate name — that is the public identity users actually say, applied for by its operator to anchor both a consumer service and a third-party developer/ecosystem namespace under a brand whose owner is known by something else.
Same bet in a narrower form: one coined consumer software service whose brand is the entire product (and has slid toward a verb), where the TLD defends a single-service identity rather than a corporate portfolio.
Same bet of a flagship product brand carrying more consumer identity than its parent company, built from an ordinary English word plus a modifier, though it fronts a closed hardware/partner platform rather than an open software service.
What a .chatgpt domain is
.chatgpt 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 .chatgpt domain extension real yet?
.chatgpt 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 .chatgpt domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .chatgpt name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .chatgpt was .android, delegated on 12 November 2014.
Is .chatgpt a real TLD?
Not yet. .chatgpt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .chatgpt is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- OpenAI · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified-facts block shows a single confirmed application from OPENAI OPCO, LLC with no contention, which is the shape of a brand (dot-brand) application: the registry is the brand owner and addresses are expected to be reserved for its own use rather than sold to the public. The rubric scores value to the best-fit buyer, and here that buyer is the brand itself, so end-use utility rests on whether the company actually moves product, help, or login surfaces onto the string. By analogy (flagged as analogy), most dot-brands from the earlier round were used for redirects or defensive holding, with a minority (a well-known search company's blog subdomain is the commonly cited example) adopted as a visible primary identity; a consumer-facing product name with very high public recognition sits toward the more-usable end of that range, and a closed namespace that only the brand controls has anti-impersonation value for a product that is a frequent phishing target. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no third-party registrations, no price-driven volume, and no aftermarket of any kind: the string cannot be bought by anyone else. It is not in the 1-9 band because a realistic, if narrow, use exists for the operator, and the brand name carries immediate recognition that would make any address on it instantly credible to end users. Main market uncertainty: whether the product name remains the company's primary consumer identity over five years and whether the operator chooses active use (product and support hostnames) versus defensive holding, which is unknown from the record.