.made
Is .made a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .made in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ Registry named .made as a backup string for its .road application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Link Freedom Group named .made as a backup string for its .coin application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Nobody has applied for .made in its own right.
Will names sell?
A catchy word for makers and product brands, best as a slogan-style extra address; few serious projects would make it their main identity.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .made’s closest 2012 strings hold .works 39K, .build 12K and .got 2.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .works, held 38,635 names, June 2026. .build held 11,620; .got held 2. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: an everyday English verb-form with no category behind it, where the value only appears once a registrant supplies the left half to complete a phrase (smith.works / hand.made), and the intended buyer is the small maker or studio who wants a craft-flavored identity rather than a keyword.
Same bet in a more active tense — a making/creation verb sold on connotation to builders and product brands rather than to an existing industry that already calls itself by that word, so the registry has to manufacture demand for a mood, not capture demand for a category.
Closest structural twin as a string: a past-tense verb that is grammatically incapable of standing alone, so every registration is a sentence-completion gamble with no natural primary-identity owner and no defensible defensive-registration base.
makers, artisan and direct-to-consumer product brands, and small manufacturers who want a 'built by hand / built by us' identity; secondarily marketing teams buying phrase hacks like custom.made or hand.made for campaigns.
What a .made domain is
.made is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. Nobody has applied for .made in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .made domain extension real yet?
.made 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 .made domain?
You can’t yet. A .made name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .made was .works, delegated on 23 January 2014.
Is .made a real TLD?
Not yet. .made is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .made as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T60410 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .coin · Deactivated XL2625T-T87695 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .road · Deactivated”ICANN
“.made · Lifestyle · “Born from the hustle.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a common English past-tense verb with a strong provenance connotation (made-in, handmade, custom-made), which supports phrase-hack registrations (hand.made, custom.made, home.made) and campaign use by product brands. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no single category where .made would plausibly become a primary-identity default within 5 years: makers and DTC brands already default to legacy namespaces or brandable alternatives, and a past-tense verb reads as a tagline suffix rather than a home address. By analogy (flagged as analogy), verb- and phrase-oriented TLDs have tended to see registration activity driven by promotions and one-off campaigns rather than sustained primary-identity use, while adjacent craft/creative strings like .design achieved genuine niche identity adoption only because a self-identifying professional community existed; 'people who make things' is broader and less self-labeling, which weakens that path for .made. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is a real, positive, widely understood generic with multiple natural phrase completions, giving it more than joke or event-driven demand: a modest tail of makers, workshops, and product-launch microsites can plausibly sustain it. The applicant is one of more than 300 strings filed by Link Freedom Group in the 2026 round, which is neutral for the string itself but suggests portfolio-style marketing rather than a dedicated community push, informing adoption likelihood only. Registration volume, pricing, and comparable-TLD figures: unknown; all volume judgments here are qualitative analogy. Main market uncertainty: whether phrase-hack and campaign demand (the likeliest early buyers) converts into any durable primary-identity cohort, or decays after first-year promotions as it has for many campaign-driven strings (analogy).