.electric
Is .electric a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.electric is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is XYZ Registry. Link Freedom Group named .electric as a backup string for its .bit application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
One of the 2 is tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Link Freedom Group and XYZ Registry filed 297 applications between them across the round.
Will names sell?
A descriptive niche name for EV, energy, and electrician businesses; usable, but few would make it their main web identity.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .electric’s closest 2012 strings hold .solar 10K, .energy 29K and .organic 2K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .solar, held 10,063 names, June 2026. .energy held 28,937; .organic held 1,774. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a single energy-technology word that an entire supply chain of installers, manufacturers and specialists claims as primary identity because no company owns the generic, and it only pays off if that technology stays its own distinct industry.
Same sector-identity logic and same buyer pool, but pitched one level up as the umbrella category noun, which draws incumbents and utilities rather than the specific-technology challengers.
Structurally the nearest non-energy match: an adjective naming a product attribute that a whole class of producers wears as a badge, betting the attribute is identity-worthy rather than just a spec line.
electrical trades and contractors, EV-charging and e-mobility ventures, energy utilities and grid-services firms, plus a smaller tail of music and culture brands trading on the word's vibe
What a .electric domain is
.electric is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Infrastructure category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .electric domain extension real yet?
.electric 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 .electric domain?
You can’t yet. A .electric name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .electric was .solar, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .electric a real TLD?
Not yet. .electric is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .electric is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T55382 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .bit · Deactivated XL2625T-T52499 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary”ICANN
“.electric · Infra · “Always on, always electric.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a common, positive dictionary word with a genuinely growing subject area (electrification, EVs, grid buildout), so registrations at volume are plausible and the names read naturally as suffixes (grid.electric, charge.electric). By analogy (flagged as such), comparable descriptive energy- and trade-themed TLDs such as .energy, .solar, and .contractors have historically attracted real but modest registration bases with thin aftermarkets and little primary-identity adoption; serious companies in these sectors have tended to keep a .com and use the themed TLD, if at all, for campaigns or redirects. That analogy caps it below the 50-69 band: there is no evidence of a community that treats a themed suffix as its default identity, and the electrification wave's brand energy concentrates in company names, not TLD choice. It sits above the 10-29 band because demand is not merely event-driven or joke-driven: electricians, charging networks, and utilities are large, durable buyer pools with a plain descriptive fit, and the adjective form also works as a brandable suffix. Applicant facts are neutral context: the string is announced by Link Freedom Group, which filed more than 300 strings in the 2026 round and published its list before Reveal Day; its catalog files this string under Infra with the tagline 'Always on, always electric.' A large-portfolio applicant plausibly implies volume-oriented pricing and marketing, which affects adoption style but not the string's intrinsic fit. Main market uncertainty: whether the EV and electrification boom converts into TLD-level identity demand at all, or whether that sector's naming energy stays entirely on legacy extensions.