.gleif
Is .gleif a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .gleif in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. GLEIF named .gleif as the replacement string of its .lei application.
An organisation-name string for the LEI foundation itself; no open market for addresses is likely over the next five years.
the applicant foundation and its own LEI-related services, as an internal and institutional namespace rather than something sold to the public
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 initials of a non-commercial standards-and-identifier body claiming its own acronym as a closed institutional namespace, where the value is authoritative self-identification for its specs, registries and member services rather than any resale market.
Same bet of putting an entity-identifier scheme's own name on the web as the authoritative home of that numbering system, differing mainly in that the issuer is a commercial data vendor rather than a nonprofit foundation.
Same bet of an acronym only one non-commercial international institution could ever plausibly claim, run as a single-registrant namespace for its own sites and services, though it stands for a research organisation rather than a registry authority others must reference.
What a .gleif domain is
.gleif is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. Nobody has applied for .gleif in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .gleif domain extension real yet?
.gleif is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .gleif domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .gleif name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .gleif was .ieee, delegated on 21 July 2016.
Is .gleif a real TLD?
Not yet. .gleif is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .gleif as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- GLEIF · first recordedICANN
“GLEI2667T-T86308 · Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation · replacement string of .lei”ICANN
- Band 1-9 (no realistic market). The string is the acronym of the applicant, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, and on the record it is a replacement string for a primary application for .lei. A string that is an organisation's own name functions as a brand or institutional TLD: the foundation would use it for its own identity and services, and third parties have no reason to register under it. By analogy with the dot-brand TLDs from the 2012 round, such namespaces typically see few registrations beyond the operator's own and no aftermarket (inference from analogy). It is not in the 10-29 band because a vanity or joke TLD at least attracts some outside event-driven demand, whereas a foundation acronym attracts none; it cannot be lower than the bottom band. The main market uncertainty is whether the foundation would open any part of the namespace to LEI issuers or registrants as a verified-identity service, which would create a narrow institutional use case; the record gives no indication of that.