.mono
Is .mono a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.mono is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is monobank.
A closed brand space for one bank; useful only to that company, with no open market or resale for anyone else.
the applying bank brand and its own products, apps and campaigns; no outside buyers, since a brand TLD is not open for general registration
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 .mono: a short, ownerless abstract concept-word (literally the same meaning) whose value is brandable shorthand rather than membership in any category, so the registry is selling meaning-flexibility to whoever can make it stand for something.
The closest morphological parallel — a bound prefix/modifier promoted to a standalone TLD, where the bet is that registrants will use it as a qualifier on their own word (mini-X, mono-X) rather than as the identity itself.
Another terse absolute-concept string with no natural constituency, betting purely on evocative shorthand, but it reads as a complete statement where .mono reads as an unfinished modifier, so the registrant intent differs.
What a .mono domain is
.mono 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 .mono domain extension real yet?
.mono 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 .mono domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .mono name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .mono was .one, delegated on 22 January 2015.
Is .mono a real TLD?
Not yet. .mono is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .mono is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- monobank · first recordedICANN
“LLC2634T-T17803 · LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY «KBYTE1024» · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed application of ICANN type brand from a company trading as monobank, so the string would operate as a closed namespace with the brand as sole registrant. The best-fit buyer is therefore the brand itself, and value is end-use utility (short links, app and product subdomains, phishing-resistant customer addresses) with no aftermarket at all. By analogy with earlier dot-brands from the prior round, a minority were adopted as the operator's primary identity while many stayed dormant or were later retired, so the realistic outcome is modest, internal utility rather than a market. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations at volume or on price cannot happen in a closed space and there is no third-party demand to serve; it is not in the 1-9 band because a bank with a mobile-first brand has a genuine, if narrow, use for a memorable short string as a trusted customer-facing address. The generic meaning of 'mono' (audio, typography, monochrome) is irrelevant while the space stays closed. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates customer-facing services to the string or keeps it as a defensive or marketing-only asset.