.neural
Is .neural a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .neural in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .neural as the replacement string of its .intelligence application.
A credible second-choice address for AI projects, but .ai already owns the category, so .neural stays a niche pick.
AI and machine-learning startups, research labs, and developer-tool projects wanting a descriptive AI-flavoured address when the .ai name they want is taken or priced out of reach
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: a technical-paradigm adjective the industry had just adopted as its own self-description, owned by no company, sold to every vendor in that paradigm wanting the paradigm as their primary identity.
Same bet at narrower scope — a technical-discipline label whose buyers are the tool and service vendors practicing it, betting that practitioners brand on the method rather than on a market or an audience.
Same structural bet of an adjective-as-identity for a technology era, differing in breadth: it asks any modern business to claim the era, where the target asks one technical community to claim its method.
What a .neural domain is
.neural is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .neural in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .neural domain extension real yet?
.neural 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 .neural domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .neural name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .neural was .cloud, delegated on 26 June 2015.
Is .neural a real TLD?
Not yet. .neural is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .neural as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T78143 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .intelligence”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T90578 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-213 PTL2645T-T73740 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-213 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .robotics · Deactivated VIL2659T-T55269 · Verse International Limited · replacement string of .did · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a genuine term of art in machine learning and reads as AI-adjacent to a non-expert, so a real buyer pool exists and it supports name-hacks (by analogy, the way descriptive gTLDs such as .cloud or .digital get used in product names). It is not in the 50-69 band because the AI category already has a de facto standard in .ai, and a secondary adjective TLD would need to explain itself next to it; by analogy, descriptive adjective gTLDs have historically registered at volume on price rather than becoming a primary identity that commands aftermarket value, and there is no evidence on the record of sustained demand for .neural specifically. It is not in the 10-29 band because the term is durable, serious, and tied to a category with strong demand over the next 5 years, unlike joke or event-driven strings. The record shows one applicant, Radix, filing it as a standard replacement string for .intelligence; if the applicant brings established registrar distribution (unknown from the record), early adoption likelihood improves, which is why the score sits in the upper half of the band rather than lower. Main market uncertainty: whether funded AI companies will treat any AI-descriptive gTLD as a credible primary identity rather than a fallback, and whether the word 'neural' itself stays current as the field's vocabulary shifts. Counts, prices, and dates beyond the record are unknown.