.okx
Is .okx a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.okx is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is OKX.
A closed brand TLD for one crypto exchange's own products; no public registrations, so no open market or resale value.
the applicant's own product, regional and partner teams, who would use it for official exchange and wallet addresses rather than any outside buyer
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 short, opaque coined brand belonging to a single trading-exchange operator, where the string only works because the firm drives every user to it as its own venue identity rather than because anyone would search the word.
Same bet: a four-letter proprietary brand of one retail trading/brokerage house betting that its account holders will follow a branded namespace onto login, markets and product subdomains, with zero generic demand behind the string.
Same bet in kind — a terse initialism that means nothing except as one regulated financial institution's mark — but it is a legacy universal bank's established acronym rather than a young venue's coined label, so the trust it is leaning on already exists.
What a .okx domain is
.okx 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 .okx domain extension real yet?
.okx 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 .okx domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .okx name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .okx was .nadex, delegated on 2 May 2015.
Is .okx a real TLD?
Not yet. .okx is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .okx is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- OKX · first recordedICANN
“OHC2625T-T48354 · OKC Holdings Corporation · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed application of ICANN type "brand" by OKC Holdings Corporation, which under the brand-TLD model means registrations are restricted to the applicant and its affiliates; there is no public aftermarket by design. It is not in the 30-49 band because no third party can register or resell a name, so registrations at volume or on price cannot occur. It is not in the 1-9 band because, by analogy with earlier-round brand TLDs that financial and technology companies adopted as primary web identities (flagged as analogy; no figures cited), a crypto exchange has a plausible, genuine use: verifiable official addresses are a defensible asset in a sector where phishing of look-alike domains is a recurring concern, and the string is short and matches the brand. Analogous earlier-round brand strings, where outcomes ranged between active use and dormancy (analogy), suggest utility depends entirely on whether the company migrates its primary properties; many brand TLDs stayed defensive and largely unused. Main market uncertainty: whether the applicant actually moves customer-facing services onto the string and whether users in its markets come to trust a non-.com address for a financial service, versus the TLD serving only as a defensive or redirect holding.