.euro
Is .euro a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.euro is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is European Central Bank.
A currency-name TLD held by a central bank: credible for eurozone payment and finance uses, but thin as an open namespace or aftermarket.
eurozone payment providers, banks, fintechs and public-sector bodies that want an address signalling euro-denominated or officially sanctioned financial services
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 bloc's own collective name that no company can own, so it lives or dies on an intergovernmental body blessing you as legitimate custodian and on members across a continent-sized market adopting a shared label over their national one.
Same bet: a supranational identity string pitched as a whole-market namespace, where the hard part is securing regional-government endorsement against rival claimants rather than proving commercial demand.
Same bet on an economic-and-monetary union's own name, with the union's institutions as the only credible registrant of record, though it is an institutional acronym rather than a word the public already uses in daily commerce.
What a .euro domain is
.euro is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .euro domain extension real yet?
.euro 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 .euro domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .euro name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .euro was .arab, delegated on 23 May 2017.
Is .euro a real TLD?
Not yet. .euro is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .euro is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- European Central Bank · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string carries real semantic weight — the euro is both a currency and a shorthand for the eurozone — so an address on .euro would be understood instantly by consumers and businesses across Europe, which is more than most currency- or money-themed strings can claim. The single applicant on the record is the European Central Bank (status confirmed); stated neutrally, a central bank as operator points toward institutional or policy-driven use (payment infrastructure, a digital-currency ecosystem, trust-mark style eligibility) rather than a volume consumer namespace. By analogy — flagged as analogy — strings like .bank show that a sector-restricted TLD run with eligibility rules earns genuine primary-identity use among qualifying institutions but produces almost no aftermarket, while open money-themed strings such as .cash or .money have historically drawn price-driven registrations with weak brand signal. .euro likely lands between those: higher credibility per address than .money, lower open demand than .eu, which (by analogy) is the nearest geo comparator and already serves general European identity. It is not in the 50-69 band because sustained open demand and genuine resale value depend on an eligibility model that is unknown and, given the operator, more likely closed or vetted than open; a serious consumer brand would still choose .com or .eu without explanation. It is not in the 10-29 band because the string is neither a joke nor narrow: a licensed payment firm, a eurozone finance regulator or a digital-euro wallet provider could plausibly adopt a .euro address as its primary identity and gain trust from it. Main market uncertainty: whether registration is open to commercial eurozone businesses at all, or confined to the operator's own ecosystem and vetted financial institutions — the first would push toward the high 40s, the second caps the string near the low 30s with essentially no aftermarket.