.memory
Is .memory a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .memory in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. GoDaddy Registry named .memory as the replacement string of its .mind application.
A pleasant word with no natural owner: loosely fits memorials, storage and AI-memory products, but few would make it their main address.
memorial and remembrance services, storage and backup vendors, and AI-memory or personal-knowledge startups looking for a thematic address
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 the AI-memory reading of the target: an everyday mass noun that a new computing paradigm has adopted as its own name, sold on the hope that the wave of vendors building that layer will put their primary identity on the concept word rather than on a brand.
Same bet structurally — an intangible technical substance noun with no owning profession and no plural-seller trade behind it, so the registry has to attract diffuse buyers (enterprise infrastructure, tooling startups, hobby projects) who each only partly mean the same thing by the word.
Covers the remembrance reading of the target and draws the same emotional buyer, but it is a defined trade-category noun with an identifiable industry of funeral and cemetery operators to sell to, where the target is an abstract concept with no such roster.
What a .memory domain is
.memory is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .memory in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .memory domain extension real yet?
.memory 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 .memory domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .memory name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .memory was .cloud, delegated on 26 June 2015.
Is .memory a real TLD?
Not yet. .memory is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .memory as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- GoDaddy Registry · first recordedICANN
“NA2631T-T66571 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .mind”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T82030 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary NA2631T-T80151 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .all · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string 'memory' is an evocative common noun that points at several unrelated uses - remembrance and memorial pages, computer storage and RAM, photo archiving, and the newer AI-agent 'memory' layer - without any of them being a buyer group large enough or motivated enough to adopt it as a primary identity over the next 5 years. By analogy (flagged as analogy), broad emotive-word generic TLDs from the 2012 round such as .life, .love or .world have tended to register on price and volume rather than on brand signal, while narrower abstract nouns have mostly stayed shallow; .memory reads closer to the narrower group because 'something.memory' is awkward for a company name and strongest only for memorial pages (e.g. a person's name before .memory), a low-spend, low-frequency use. Why not 30-49: that band needs registrations at real volume, and nothing about the string suggests registrar-led volume demand or a vertical that would push it there. Why not 1-9: the word is memorable, has at least three plausible niches, and an AI-memory product category is emerging, so a thin but real market exists. The record shows a single applicant, GoDaddy Registry (Registry Services, LLC), whose primary string is .mind with .memory as a replacement string, which suggests, neutrally, that it may be operated as a general-purpose commercial TLD rather than a vertical one; this informs adoption likelihood only. Main market uncertainty: whether AI-agent memory products become a distinct, well-funded category that wants a branded namespace; if so, .memory could move toward the lower end of the niche band.