.eqt
Is .eqt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.eqt is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is EQT AB.
A single-company brand suffix: useful only to EQT itself, with no addresses for anyone else to buy or resell.
the applicant company itself and its own funds, portfolio-facing portals and internal services; no third-party registrants
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: an opaque three-letter initialism that is the entire public identity of a European capital-management institution, so the TLD is corporate identity infrastructure for an institutional audience rather than a word anyone else could claim or search for.
Same bet: a professional-services firm that shortened a multi-name partnership into a meaningless-to-outsiders initialism and would put its primary identity on it, which works only if the acronym is already recognized by the narrow institutional client base it serves.
Same kind of string doing the same job — a three-letter partnership acronym as sole brand for a B2B advisory firm — but the buyer is a consulting client rather than a capital allocator, so the recognition it has to trade on is adjacent rather than identical.
What a .eqt domain is
.eqt 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 .eqt domain extension real yet?
.eqt 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 .eqt domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .eqt name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .eqt was .ubs, delegated on 11 July 2015.
Is .eqt a real TLD?
Not yet. .eqt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .eqt is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- EQT AB · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its floor. The record shows one confirmed applicant, EQT AB, whose name matches the string, so this reads as a closed dot-brand namespace rather than an open TLD; to my knowledge EQT is a Nordic investment firm, which is general knowledge and not a verified fact. The string has no dictionary or generic meaning outside that company, so end-use utility exists for exactly one organisation and aftermarket value is effectively nil. It is not in the 1-9 band because, by analogy with earlier-round dot-brands that did go live, a single-registrant TLD can still serve as a credible primary identity for that one owner (corporate hubs, fund portals, investor logins), which is a real if narrow use; it is not in the 30-49 band because no registrations happen at volume or on price, there is no brand signal transferable to anyone else, and no aftermarket can form. The main market uncertainty is whether the owner actually migrates its primary web presence onto the string or treats it as a defensive or redirect-only holding; by analogy with the prior round's dot-brands this has split both ways and determined whether such TLDs were kept or retired, but it only moves the score within the low band, since third-party value stays near zero either way.