.hid
Is .hid a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.hid is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is ASSA ABLOY AB. Namecheap named .hid as a backup string for its .scan application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A single-company brand namespace: useful for its owner's own products, with no open market or resale value for anyone else.
the applicant's own corporate and product teams (recorded as a brand application by ASSA ABLOY AB), using names under .hid for their own sites, services and device-facing endpoints; not a space third parties can buy into
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .scan application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 three-letter corporate acronym that is the company's only real name, owned by a B2B industrial supplier whose customers are specifiers and integrators rather than consumers, so the TLD works as a corporate identity anchor and never needs public word-of-mouth recall.
Same bet of an initials-only manufacturer brand putting its primary identity on an opaque acronym, carrying the same requirement that trade customers already read those three letters as the company and not as a word or someone else's abbreviation.
Same bet: a short lowercase acronym for a specialist engineering-component maker that is invisible to the general public, betting entirely on channel and catalogue recognition rather than on any generic meaning the string might carry.
What a .hid domain is
.hid is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .hid domain extension real yet?
.hid 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 .hid domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .hid name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .hid was .abb, delegated on 25 April 2015.
Is .hid a real TLD?
Not yet. .hid is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .hid is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows one confirmed application of ICANN type brand, from ASSA ABLOY AB; the other application on the record is deactivated, so in market .hid would operate as a closed, single-registrant namespace. Under this rubric the best-fit buyer is the operator itself, and the value to that buyer is end-use utility only: a short, pronounceable string that can serve as a primary identity for a product or business line, including device- and credential-facing endpoints where a compact, operator-controlled namespace has some practical appeal. By analogy (flagged as analogy) with earlier-round brand TLDs, outcomes have ranged from the operator moving its primary web identity onto the TLD to the TLD remaining a defensive registration with little or no public use; which path .hid takes is unknown. Not the band above (30-49): that band requires registrations at volume or on price and at least a thin aftermarket, and a brand TLD offers no third-party registrations and no resale market at all. Not the band below (1-9): there is a realistic, if narrow, market of one — a confirmed brand applicant with a plausible operational use, which is more than no market. The string itself also reads as a common English word (past tense of hide) and as a generic technical abbreviation, so if it were ever operated as an open TLD it would have a small tech/hardware niche; but that is not the configuration on the record. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates product or corporate identities onto .hid at scale, or treats it as a defensive, low-use holding — the difference between the top and bottom of the 10-29 band.