.grid
Is .grid a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Starlight Registry
A clean word for energy and tech projects, but most of that market will keep using mainstream domains; expect niche, price-driven uptake.
smart-grid and clean-energy startups, utility digital projects, and tech teams riffing on "grid" as a computing or design metaphor
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The network that delivers power to everyone.”
One of 40 strings Starlight Registry (established by registrar Namecheap) applied for in the ICANN 2026 round, reported by Domain Name Wire on 2026-08-19.
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: an open generic infrastructure-sector noun sold to companies in the power/utility economy who would put their primary identity on the sector word itself, not a brand.
Same bet in shape: a short abstract connective-infrastructure noun that reads both literally (the physical interconnect) and metaphorically, so its buyer base is a mix of infrastructure operators and anyone claiming a systems identity.
Same bet one notch narrower: a plain-English energy-category noun whose whole thesis is that a defined industry of installers, developers and equipment vendors self-identifies with the category term.
- Starlight Registry · first recordedDomain Name Wire
- Journey To The West Corporation · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“For us, moving into the registry side is a natural extension of what we have been building.”Domain Name Wire
“.grid · Energy & Mobility · “The network that delivers power to everyone.””Journey To The West Corporation