.guild
Is .guild a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .guild in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Oinkadot named .guild as the replacement string of its .ghost application.
A real word for gaming and craft communities, but most guilds already live on .org or .gg, so uptake looks modest and price-led.
gaming guilds, craft and trade collectives, professional associations and web3 "guild" communities wanting a membership-flavoured address, rather than mainstream businesses or consumer brands
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: a generic noun for a self-organized body of people, adopted by that body as its own primary identity, sold to collectives rather than companies or individuals.
Another organizational-form noun whose buyer is an entity naming itself as a collective, and which wins only if groups will put identity on a form-word suffix instead of the .com they already hold.
The same membership-body-names-itself bet, but aimed at broad affinity and lifestyle demand rather than the narrower practitioner/trade-association flavor a guild string rests on.
What a .guild domain is
.guild is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .guild in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .guild domain extension real yet?
.guild 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 .guild domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .guild name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .guild was .community, delegated on 27 January 2014.
Is .guild a real TLD?
Not yet. .guild is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .guild as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Oinkadot · first recordedICANN
“OI2692T-T80659 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .ghost”ICANN
“CEI2660T-T22085 · Capella Exploration, Inc. · primary OI2692T-T54011 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .dine · Deactivated”ICANN
“A new partnership has applied for 25 top level domain names in this year's ICANN TLD expansion round.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a clear dictionary noun with a defined buyer group: online-gaming guilds, craft and trade collectives, professional associations, creator collectives and web3 projects that style themselves as guilds. That gives it a plausible registration base and a readable brand signal, which is why it sits above the 10-29 band: it is not a joke or event-driven string, and a guild site on .guild reads naturally as a primary identity for a hobby or membership group. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with community-flavoured generics such as .club, .team, .community and .group (analogy, not verified data), demand for these strings tends to be driven by promotional pricing and renewals thin out, the aftermarket for keyword.guild names is likely to be shallow, and the groups it serves already have entrenched habits: associations default to .org and gaming communities cluster on .gg and on platform-hosted pages rather than their own domains, so choosing .guild needs explaining. The applicant on the record is Oinkadot Inc with a standard application recorded as a replacement string of .ghost; no community or brand restriction is recorded, so general availability is assumed, and any applicant-specific channel strategy is unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether gaming guilds and small associations will move their primary identity onto a new string at all, or treat .guild as a secondary vanity redirect, which is the difference between the top and bottom of this band.