.fart
Is .fart a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.fart is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Endpoint Domains. Link Freedom Group named .fart as a backup string for its .index 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
None of the 2 is tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Link Freedom Group and Endpoint Domains filed 170 applications between them across the round.
Will names sell?
A gag domain for jokes, memes, and prank gifts; fun to own briefly, but almost no serious project would make it a real address.
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. .fart’s closest 2012 strings hold .wtf 40K, .fail 5K and .lol 1.13M.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .wtf, held 40,448 names, June 2026. .fail held 4,774; .lol held 1,126,763. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a crude, unserious piece of everyday vulgar speech that nobody makes their primary corporate identity on, monetized through cheap novelty and punchline registrations rather than any vertical of businesses.
Same bet on internet humor vocabulary — the string's value is the joke it completes in a domain, not a category of registrants who would put a real business identity behind it.
Also a pure humor/expressive token with no underlying industry to sell into, though it reads as friendlier slang and carries more mainstream messaging-culture reach than a bodily-function word.
meme creators, prank-gift buyers, comedy brands, and novelty registrants who want a laugh-out-loud address for a joke site, a shareable stunt, or a gift for a friend
What a .fart domain is
.fart is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .fart domain extension real yet?
.fart 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 .fart domain?
You can’t yet. A .fart 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 .fart was .wtf, delegated on 23 April 2014.
Is .fart a real TLD?
Not yet. .fart is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .fart 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
- Endpoint Domains · now confirmedICANN
- Endpoint Domains · first recordedDomain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“EDI2665T-T97505 · Endpoint Domains, Inc. · primary LFGL2683T-T63176 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .index · Deactivated”ICANN
“The company says the applications are fully paid.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
“.fart · Culture · “Sometimes you just have to let go.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string is a scatological joke word; its entire value is comedic shock, which lands once and decays. It is not in the 30-49 band because sustained volume registration is unlikely: humor-adjacent TLDs (by analogy to strings like .wtf, .lol, and .fail) show that even broadly applicable joke strings struggle to become primary identities, and .fart is far narrower than those, with essentially no adjacent serious use case (no plausible reading as a product category, profession, or place). It is above the 1-9 band because a realistic market does exist: novelty and gift registrations, meme-driven stunts, and comedy projects generate real, if shallow, launch-spike demand, and short memorable joke domains do change hands in the aftermarket at modest levels, again by analogy to other humor TLDs. Renewal behavior is the core weakness: joke registrations are analogously renewal-poor, so the base likely churns hard after year one. Applicant context, stated neutrally: the string was announced by Link Freedom Group in the ICANN 2026 round, categorized as Culture with the tagline "Sometimes you just have to let go."; a large-portfolio applicant suggests standard registrar distribution, which mildly supports availability-driven novelty sales but does not change the demand ceiling. Main market uncertainty: whether meme-economy dynamics over the next 5 years (short-form video, viral stunt marketing) can convert one-off gag registrations into a repeatable, renewing base, or whether demand stays a launch-window spike.