.mempool
Is .mempool a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.mempool is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Wiz & Associates.
A single-company crypto brand name, not a public namespace; useful to its owner, little to anyone else.
the applying company itself, as a closed brand namespace for its own products and services around Bitcoin transaction data; not a space open to outside registrants
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.
Both bet that the unowned generic noun for a piece of new technical infrastructure can become the category's home address, but .cloud's noun was already crossing into mainstream buyer vocabulary while .mempool's stays inside one protocol's engineering community.
Same bet on insider jargon as a category label — a contraction only practitioners in one technical specialty recognize — so the registry is selling identity to the toolmakers themselves rather than to a public that knows the word.
Also a term of art from inside an internet-infrastructure stack whose audience is the small set of engineers and operators who build that stack, though it is an acronym for a standards concept rather than a named component of a live system.
What a .mempool domain is
.mempool 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 .mempool domain extension real yet?
.mempool 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 .mempool domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .mempool name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .mempool was .cloud, delegated on 26 June 2015.
Is .mempool a real TLD?
Not yet. .mempool is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .mempool is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Wiz & Associates · first recordedICANN
“MHSD2663T-T57410 · Mempool Holdings, S.A. de C.V. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). "Mempool" is a technical term from Bitcoin and other blockchain networks for the queue of unconfirmed transactions, and it is also the name under which a Bitcoin block-explorer service is known. The verified record shows one application, from Mempool Holdings, S.A. de C.V., filed as a brand type, with no contention. A brand-type TLD is, by analogy with prior dot-brand delegations, operated as a closed namespace: addresses are not sold to the public and there is no aftermarket, so the value of an address accrues almost entirely to the operator as a short, memorable, hard-to-spoof identity for its own tools and documentation. That is a genuine but narrow use. It is not in the 30-49 band because a closed brand space produces no volume registrations and no third-party primary identities at all; it is above the 1-9 band because the string is a recognised term within the Bitcoin developer and user community and a brand that already carries the name has a plausible, sustained reason to use it as a primary identity over the next 5 years (by analogy, some prior dot-brands have been used that way while many others were left dormant). The main market uncertainty is whether the operator would actually move its primary web presence onto the string or hold it defensively; dot-brand history, by analogy, shows both patterns. A secondary uncertainty is whether crypto-sector interest in the term stays strong enough that the brand remains a reference point.