.erica
Is .erica a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.erica is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Bank of America.
A first-name TLD: fun for people and brands called Erica, but few serious projects would pick it as their main address.
people, personal brands and small businesses named or built around "Erica", plus a brand owner using the string as its own identity
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 common human first name run as a single-owner identity namespace because a company's product/line carries that name, so the string's value rests entirely on the owner's brand rather than on any category meaning.
Also a woman's given name turned into a corporate namespace, the same wager that one holder's mark can outrank every real person who shares the name, though it sits on a luxury house with far stronger prior claim to the word than a plain first name usually carries.
The alternative reading of the same bet: a personal name offered as shared space for everyone who bears it, which is what .erica would have to be if no single brand owns the word.
What a .erica domain is
.erica 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 .erica domain extension real yet?
.erica 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 .erica domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .erica name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .erica was .george, delegated on 18 August 2016.
Is .erica a real TLD?
Not yet. .erica is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .erica is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Bank of America · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a common given name, not a category, product, activity or place, so demand in the next 5 years would be driven by vanity registrations (people and personal brands called Erica) or by a single brand using it as its own namespace. By analogy, surname and personal-name strings from the earlier new-gTLD round (such as .kim) settled into small, price-sensitive vanity use with little aftermarket; that is an inference from analogy, not a verified figure. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no category in which a given-name TLD becomes a volume or default choice, and no obvious keyword-plus-name combinations that resellers would chase. It is not in the 1-9 band because a widely used first name has a real, if shallow, personal-site and fan/brand market, and a single applicant (ML 35 LLC, status confirmed on the record) can run it for a brand purpose where primary-identity use is plausible for that one owner. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator opens general registration at all, or keeps the string for a single brand identity — open use yields a thin vanity market; closed use yields near-zero third-party value but a credible single primary identity.