.made
Is .made a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.made is not contested. One applicant has said publicly that it applied to run it, and nobody else has, as of 15 August 2026. It is Link Freedom Group.
A catchy word for makers and product brands, best as a slogan-style extra address; few serious projects would make it their main identity.
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.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Born from the hustle.”
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: 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.
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, filed under Commerce. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .made.
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. 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 .made domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .made name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .made was .works, delegated on .
Is .made a real TLD?
Not yet. .made is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .made in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“.made · Lifestyle · “Born from the hustle.””Link Freedom Group
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- 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).