.icp
Is .icp a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.icp is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is DFINITY Stiftung.
A niche web address tied to one blockchain ecosystem; useful inside it, little pull outside it.
developers and projects building on the Internet Computer blockchain who want an address that signals membership in that ecosystem, plus crypto-native brands
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 as an initialism that is already a technical organization's whole identity: nobody outside the field needs to decode it, the registrants are the engineers and projects inside that ecosystem, and it works only if the body's own community treats the acronym as its namespace rather than as a word anyone would type.
The same wager that three letters of internet-infrastructure jargon carry demand on recognition alone — an acronym with no dictionary meaning and no single owner, sold to insiders who know the term, which is a much thinner pool than a category noun would reach.
Parallel only in shape — a sector-jargon acronym held by a commercial player in the sector it names, where primary identity goes to firms already in that niche — but it names a settled regulated product class with established buyers, whereas the target's acronym collides across several unrelated meanings and has no comparable 2012 equivalent.
What a .icp domain is
.icp is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Crypto. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .icp domain extension real yet?
.icp 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 .icp domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .icp name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .icp was .ieee, delegated on 21 July 2016.
Is .icp a real TLD?
Not yet. .icp is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .icp is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- DFINITY Stiftung · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The applicant on the record is DFINITY Stiftung, filed as a standard application; DFINITY is the foundation behind the Internet Computer blockchain, whose native token is commonly abbreviated ICP, so the string reads as an ecosystem namespace rather than a generic word. Its best-fit buyer is a developer or project on that chain wanting a primary identity that announces where it lives, and a sub-set of those would plausibly use project.icp as their main address if the registry connects DNS names to on-chain resolution. By analogy (flagged as analogy): protocol-affiliated namespaces such as .eth and .sol have seen genuine primary-identity use within their communities but their demand has tracked the token cycle and stayed narrow, and in the ICANN DNS, single-ecosystem strings have not grown into broad category standards. It is not in the 50-69 band because sustained demand would depend on one chain's developer base rather than a durable market category, and the string collides with unrelated meanings (ideal customer profile, a medical term, a music act) that dilute any brand signal. It is not in the 10-29 band because, unlike a joke or event-driven string, there is a concrete user group with an identity reason to register and a plausible sponsor to drive adoption through its own tooling. Main market uncertainty: whether on-chain resolution and wallet or dapp tooling will be wired to .icp names so that the address becomes functional infrastructure rather than a vanity signal, and whether the ecosystem's developer base grows or contracts over the next 5 years. Aftermarket demand is likely thin and speculative, concentrated in a handful of generic and ticker-like labels.