.nut
Is .nut a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.nut is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is XYZ.
A playful word ending for enthusiast brands and name puns like coco.nut; fun to own, rarely a serious company's main address.
hobbyist and enthusiast brands (gym, car, tech "nuts"), snack and nutrition sellers, and domain-hack collectors chasing names like pea.nut or dough.nut
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: an unowned singular generic for one food commodity, where the registry sells identity to the growers, processors, roasters/retailers and enthusiasts of that one crop rather than to any company that owns the word.
Same bet: a short, universally understood single-foodstuff category noun that no brand can claim, monetized by a fragmented producer-and-merchant trade adopting it as its native namespace.
Same shape of bet — a narrow consumable-product generic open to a whole category of makers and sellers — but the buyer pool is thinner and more brand-dominated than a raw agricultural ingredient's, so the parallel is looser.
What a .nut domain is
.nut is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .nut domain extension real yet?
.nut 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 .nut domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .nut name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .nut was .coffee, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .nut a real TLD?
Not yet. .nut is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .nut is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string is a short English word with three live meanings - enthusiast slang (car nut, gym nut), food/snack, and hardware - plus a crude slang reading that, by analogy with other double-meaning word TLDs, tends to keep serious businesses from making it a primary identity. The verified-facts block records one confirmed standard application from XYZ.COM LLC on the ICANN Reveal Day list of 7 October 2026, and a deactivated .shield application that named .nut as its primary; these are stated neutrally and only mildly inform adoption likelihood (an operator with a portfolio of word TLDs would, by analogy, run it as a volume/novelty string rather than a community one). Not the band above (30-49): by analogy with playful word TLDs such as .lol, .wtf, .beer or .coffee (actual figures unknown), demand looks event-driven and price-sensitive rather than a volume category with a repeatable buyer group, and the crude reading caps brand signal. Not the band below (1-9): the word is genuinely memorable, the enthusiast meaning fits small hobby brands, and the domain-hack set (coco.nut, pea.nut, wal.nut, hazel.nut, chest.nut, dough.nut) is unusually rich, which by analogy with hack-friendly strings like .ly or .me should produce a thin but real aftermarket for a handful of names. Main market uncertainty: whether the enthusiast (tech nut) meaning is adopted by hobby communities as an identity beyond the launch spike, or whether registrations stay a one-time novelty wave. Inference from analogy throughout; no figures asserted.