.ledger
Is .ledger a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.ledger is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is LEDGER.
A closed brand domain: the word fits finance and crypto well, but outsiders would not be able to register names on it.
the applicant organisation itself, for its own product, support and campaign addresses; not a public namespace for accountants, blockchain projects or fintech startups
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 .ledger: a single abstract commerce-mechanism noun that reads as plain English to anyone yet carries a precise financial-infrastructure meaning, sold open to the whole money sector rather than owned by one firm or profession.
Like .ledger it takes a double-entry bookkeeping term that generalized into everyday finance vocabulary and bets that the accounting/lending trade will hang its primary identity on the instrument word itself, not on a profession name like .accountant.
A short generic money-primitive noun aimed at payments and fintech registrants, so the buyer overlaps, but it names the value being moved rather than the record-keeping artifact, and it carries no technical-system meaning the way .ledger does.
What a .ledger domain is
.ledger 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 .ledger domain extension real yet?
.ledger 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 .ledger domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ledger name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ledger was .exchange, delegated on 23 April 2014.
Is .ledger a real TLD?
Not yet. .ledger is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .ledger is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- LEDGER · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified record shows one confirmed application, ICANN type 'brand', from an applicant named LEDGER, with no contention. A brand-type TLD is, by analogy with earlier dot-brand delegations, operated for the applicant's own use rather than sold to the public, so the 'best-fit buyer' collapses to a single organisation and there is no aftermarket to price. That rules out the band above (30-49), which requires registrations happening at volume or on price from a general buyer pool; a closed brand registry has neither. It sits above the band below (1-9) because the string is a strong, generic, globally understood word for bookkeeping, accounting and blockchain record-keeping, and an organisation trading under that name could plausibly use it as a real primary identity for products and services over the next 5 years, which some earlier brand TLDs have done (inference from analogy, outcomes mixed: a number of brand TLDs were used actively, many were left dormant or retired). Count of such outcomes: unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates meaningful traffic and identity onto the string versus holding it defensively; a defensively held brand TLD has close to no utility to anyone, while an actively used one gives the brand a credible, memorable namespace in a crowded finance/crypto category.