.pico
Is .pico a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .pico in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Pi Network named .pico as the replacement string of its .pai application.
A short, catchy word for tiny-scale tech and Spanish speakers, but no category would treat it as the obvious home address.
makers of small-scale hardware, IoT and microcontroller projects, Spanish-language brands, and participants in the Pi Network ecosystem looking for a short distinctive label
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 as .pico: a short size-modifier morpheme rather than a category or a company, whose value comes from being prepended or appended to someone else's noun, so nobody puts a primary identity on the string itself and the registry has to manufacture a use case.
Another abstract quantity word with no owning industry, profession or community — it only works if registrants treat it as a semantic qualifier in a two-part phrase, which is the same unanchored demand assumption .pico depends on.
A contentless intensifier string that, like .pico, has no natural registrant class and must win on wordplay and brandable left-of-dot combinations rather than on any category of buyer already identifying with the word.
What a .pico domain is
.pico 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 .pico in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .pico domain extension real yet?
.pico 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 .pico domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .pico name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .pico was .mini, delegated on 24 June 2014.
Is .pico a real TLD?
Not yet. .pico is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .pico as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Pi Network · first recordedICANN
“PCC2647T-T40814 · Pi Community Company · replacement string of .pai”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a real cross-language word: a metric prefix meaning extremely small, a Spanish noun (peak, beak), and a syllable with tech resonance in small-computing product naming. It is short, pronounceable and carries no awkward connotation, which is why it sits above the 10-29 vanity band — a serious micro-hardware, IoT or Spanish-language project could plausibly adopt it as a primary identity without embarrassment, and from analogy with other short semantic strings it would attract a steady trickle of brand-style registrations rather than purely event-driven ones. It does not reach 50-69 because no category would default to it: nobody explains 'we are on .pico' without a follow-up sentence, and by analogy with adjective- or prefix-style TLDs (strings that describe scale or quality rather than a market), these register at volume mainly on price or novelty, show weak brand signal and thin aftermarkets. Applicant context, stated neutrally from the record: the sole application is from Pi Community Company as a standard (non-brand) application, filed as a replacement string for .pai; this suggests the registry may orient the namespace toward its own community, which could drive adoption inside that ecosystem but would not by itself create a general-market category standard. The main market uncertainty is positioning: whether .pico is run as an open generic at commodity pricing (volume on price, little brand value) or as an ecosystem namespace for Pi Network users (concentrated, community-driven demand with a captive but narrow buyer base); either way the ceiling over 5 years looks like niche-to-limited rather than category-defining.