.claude
Is .claude a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.claude 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 namespace for an AI assistant; strong identity for its owner, but no open market or resale value for anyone else.
the applicant itself, using addresses under its own product name for official services, documentation and agent or developer endpoints; not a space third parties can expect to buy into
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 company staking its own TLD on a common human first name that it uses as a single consumer-facing product brand, accepting that the string's everyday personal meaning belongs to millions of other people.
Same bet from the buyer's side: a tech company putting a dot behind the name of one flagship software platform rather than its corporate name, to serve as the ecosystem home for users and developers of that product.
Same bet in word type and ownership: a given name carried as a single house/product brand by one corporate owner, where the dot's value rests entirely on the brand having annexed a personal name in the public mind.
What a .claude domain is
.claude 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 .claude domain extension real yet?
.claude 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 .claude domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .claude name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .claude was .george, delegated on 18 August 2016.
Is .claude a real TLD?
Not yet. .claude is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .claude 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/joke/narrow), score 24. The verified record shows one confirmed applicant, Anthropic, PBC, and 'Claude' is widely known as that company's AI assistant product name, which makes this read as a single-registrant brand string rather than a generic. Flagged as analogy: brand TLDs from the prior round (.google, .bmw, .canon style strings) have mostly stayed closed to outsiders, with a minority ever used as the owner's primary web identity and effectively zero aftermarket, so an address here is valuable to exactly one party. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations at volume or on price are not a plausible dynamic for a closed brand string, and no third-party brand signal or aftermarket can form. It is not in the 1-9 band because there is a realistic and arguably high-utility use for the owner: a product with strong public recall that already lives on a short product-name domain could credibly make the TLD its canonical home for services, docs and agent endpoints, and the AI category carries unusual attention over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether the registry is run fully closed, or opened in some form to developers, agents or people named Claude (a common given name), which would create a small but real third-party namespace.