.haute
Is .haute a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .haute in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .haute as the replacement string of its .wealth application.
A chic fashion-and-luxury label that reads well but few serious brands would make their main web address; demand is shallow and niche.
fashion, beauty and luxury boutiques, stylists and couture-adjacent creators who want a short, French-flavoured vanity address alongside a primary domain
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 short French-flavored prestige adjective that no single company owns, sold as a self-applied upmarket signal to any high-end seller rather than as a category label.
The plain-English version of the identical wager — that premium merchants will pay to assert status in the string itself, so value comes from the connotation of expensiveness, not from naming what is sold.
Also bets that apparel and style businesses will adopt a non-English, fashion-coded word for identity, though it is a straightforward category noun in its own language rather than a prestige modifier lifted into English.
What a .haute domain is
.haute 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 .haute in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .haute domain extension real yet?
.haute 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 .haute domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .haute name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .haute was .luxe, delegated on 15 May 2014.
Is .haute a real TLD?
Not yet. .haute is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .haute as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T92848 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .wealth”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T90578 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-213 PTL2645T-T73740 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-213 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .robotics · Deactivated VIL2659T-T55269 · Verse International Limited · replacement string of .did · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), near the top of it. The string is a French adjective best known through 'haute couture' and 'haute cuisine', so it carries a clear luxury-fashion-gastronomy connotation and is short and pronounceable, which is why it is not in the 1-9 band: a real, if small, buyer group of boutiques, stylists, beauty brands and food creators would register it for taglines and campaign addresses over the next 5 years. It is not in the 30-49 band because an adjective that needs a noun ('haute what?') makes an awkward standalone identity, most luxury and fashion houses treat a .com or a national ccTLD as the credibility signal and are conservative about alternative extensions, and nothing about the string suggests it would move at volume or on price the way broad generic strings do. By analogy (flagged as analogy), luxury- and fashion-themed TLDs from the previous round such as .luxury, .fashion, .boutique and .style found modest, mostly defensive or promotional use rather than primary-identity adoption, and .haute is narrower than any of them. The applicant on record is Radix, a standard (non-brand, non-community) application filed as a replacement string for .wealth; Radix operates as a portfolio registry, which makes broad registrar distribution plausible and supports the top-of-band placement, but distribution does not change the string's narrow end-use. Main market uncertainty: whether a non-English adjective reads as premium or as affectation to the English-speaking fashion and beauty creator market that would have to drive volume, and whether any luxury-house marketing campaign would adopt it visibly enough to seed imitation.