.dash
Is .dash a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .dash in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Endpoint Domains, Inc. named .dash as the replacement string of its .big application.
A punchy word with several meanings but no home category; expect price-led and novelty registrations, few serious primary identities.
software teams naming dashboards or status pages, speed- and delivery-themed consumer brands, and crypto or hobby projects that like a short verb-like suffix
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: a short monosyllabic English speed/motion word with no owning category or community, sold on connotation rather than meaning, so the buyer is any brand wanting the address itself to signal fast.
Same bet at the lexical level: the string names a typographic mark and works by reading as part of the address rather than as a category anyone belongs to, which means it needs a promoter to invent the usage rather than an existing registrant pool.
Same bet as a bare English verb that is simultaneously an activity, a command and a figure of speech, so it attracts no single primary-identity holder and depends on one operator choosing which of its meanings to market.
What a .dash domain is
.dash is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .dash in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .dash domain extension real yet?
.dash 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 .dash domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .dash name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .dash was .zip, delegated on 15 September 2014.
Is .dash a real TLD?
Not yet. .dash is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .dash as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Endpoint Domains, Inc. · first recordedICANN
“EDI2665T-T67966 · Endpoint Domains, Inc. · replacement string of .big”ICANN
“EDI2665T-T86695 · Endpoint Domains, Inc. · replacement string of .central · Deactivated XL2625T-T57527 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .hub · Deactivated”ICANN
“Each of these is a primary application. Plus additional applications to be revealed.”Endpoint Domains, Inc.
“The company says the applications are fully paid.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a short, common English word with several live meanings — a burst of speed, a punctuation mark, the short form of 'dashboard', and a name used by products in delivery, software tooling and cryptocurrency (own knowledge, qualitative only). That spread gives it registration appeal on price and novelty, and a plausible end-use pattern (an analytics or status site at something.dash) that could sustain modest volume over the next 5 years. It is not in the 50-69 band because no single category treats the word as a natural address suffix, so any serious project choosing .dash as a primary identity must explain the choice, and there is no reason to expect a real aftermarket to form. It is not in the 10-29 band because, by analogy with other short generic-verb and generic-noun TLDs from the 2012 round (analogy, not data), strings of this shape tend to collect steady low-priced registrations and some brand-defensive demand rather than purely event-driven or joke demand. On the record the string has one application and no contention; the applicant is Endpoint Domains, Inc., and the record lists .dash as a replacement string for the applicant's primary application for .big, which suggests the string may be the applicant's secondary choice and bears on how much launch marketing it receives. Main market uncertainty: whether dashboard-style SaaS naming or a speed/delivery brand aesthetic turns .dash into a recognisable pattern, versus the string settling into vanity and defensive registrations with little primary-identity use.