.mine
Is .mine a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.mine 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 clever possessive word with a crypto-mining side meaning; fun for personal sites and mining brands, rarely a serious main address.
individuals wanting a possessive personal-identity domain (name.mine, portfolio.mine), plus crypto-mining projects and mining/resources companies drawn to the literal reading
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Dig deeper, find value.”
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 exactly: a first-person pronoun sold as a personal-ownership namespace, where the string carries no category meaning and all value depends on individuals wanting to plant a personal identity on a possessive word rather than on any industry or company adopting it.
A bare pronoun aimed at consumer self-expression and direct address, monetizing only through high-volume individual registrations and a memorable left-of-dot phrase, with no professional cohort or anchor tenant to underwrite it.
Also a self-declaration word ('I am') betting on personal identity registrations, but it leans on one language community and collides with a commodity meaning, so the buyer pool is narrower and the string's job less purely possessive than .mine's.
What a .mine domain is
.mine is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .mine.
Is the .mine domain extension real yet?
.mine 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 .mine domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .mine name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .mine was .moi, delegated on .
Is .mine a real TLD?
Not yet. .mine is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .mine in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“.mine · Lifestyle · “Dig deeper, find value.””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: usable but limited (30-49). The string carries two readings: the English possessive, which supports playful personal-identity and lifestyle registrations, and the mining sense, which speaks to crypto-mining operations and the minerals industry. By analogy (flagged as analogy), possessive-flavored namespaces such as .me have shown that a personal-pronoun angle can drive meaningful registration volume, but most of that volume is price- and novelty-driven rather than durable primary-identity use; by further analogy, verb/possessive dictionary TLDs like .life or .live sustain registrations without becoming a category default. It is not in the 50-69 band because no single buyer group treats a .mine address as an expected identity that needs no explaining, and the two meanings dilute each other rather than compound. It is not in the 10-29 band because the dual demand pools (personal-vanity plus crypto/industrial mining) plausibly support ongoing volume registrations and occasional genuine brand use over the next 5 years, more than event-driven joke demand. Applicant facts: the string is announced in the ICANN 2026 round by Link Freedom Group, which filed more than 300 strings and published its list ahead of Reveal Day (Domain Name Wire, 2026-08-13); its catalog places .mine under Lifestyle with the tagline "Dig deeper, find value.", suggesting a broad consumer positioning rather than a crypto or industrial vertical play. Main market uncertainty: whether possessive-vanity registrations renew and convert into real primary identities, or churn as one-time novelties, and whether crypto-mining demand is still material by the time of general availability.