.ethereum
Is .ethereum a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.ethereum is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Ethereum Foundation.
A credible badge of Ethereum affiliation, but the ecosystem already names itself with .eth, so this reads as secondary.
projects, teams and infrastructure providers building on or affiliated with Ethereum who want an address that signals official-ecosystem standing
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: the proper name of an open technology standard stewarded by a non-profit foundation rather than a company, where the TLD is meant to become the namespace of the medium itself and the applicant's claim rests on being the protocol's custodian, not its vendor.
Same bet in shape — a named developer platform whose third-party builders would put their primary identity on the platform's name — but it is a single corporation's trademark, so the string carries an owner rather than a community.
Also a named open-source platform with an outside ecosystem that would want addresses on it, betting that the platform name is worth more as a namespace than as a brand site; it differs in having one company as both steward and beneficiary.
What a .ethereum domain is
.ethereum is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Crypto. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .ethereum domain extension real yet?
.ethereum 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 .ethereum domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ethereum name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ethereum was .frogans, delegated on 19 April 2014.
Is .ethereum a real TLD?
Not yet. .ethereum is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .ethereum is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Ethereum Foundation · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The verified record shows a single confirmed application from Stiftung Ethereum, which suggests the string will be run as a foundation-controlled ecosystem namespace rather than a freely traded generic; the record does not state the registration policy, so this is inferred, not asserted. The string's value comes from the recognition of the Ethereum ecosystem itself, and an address on it would carry a real affiliation signal for a project building on the network. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy, the Ethereum ecosystem already has an entrenched naming convention in ENS .eth names, which is shorter and already woven into wallets and applications; a DNS-side .ethereum address would most plausibly be a verification or secondary surface rather than the primary identity serious projects reach for, and a curated namespace tends to produce a thin aftermarket (analogy: brand and tightly policed community TLDs generally see little resale activity). It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not a joke or event spike: the ecosystem is large and durable, and an officially endorsed address has genuine end-use utility for infrastructure providers, client teams and ecosystem programmes over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether registrations will be open to third-party projects at general availability or restricted to Foundation-controlled uses, and whether the namespace gets integrated with existing ENS resolution so that it becomes a usable identity rather than a web badge.