.pinet
Is .pinet a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.pinet is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Pi Network.
A namespace for one crypto project's ecosystem: meaningful to Pi Network users and builders, little draw for anyone else.
developers, merchants and community members building inside the Pi Network ecosystem, plus speculators among its user base hoping the project's own namespace carries value
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 coined, meaningless-to-outsiders name for a proprietary network whose operator is the only possible registrant, so the string's entire worth depends on that one network's community adopting it as their native address space rather than on any dictionary demand.
Same bet in platform form: an invented word owned by the single company behind an app/user ecosystem, taken so that the ecosystem's apps, wallets and developer surfaces can carry the platform's own name, with zero value to anyone outside it.
A coined consumer-network brand whose owner wants mass retail users to put identity and money-moving flows on the network's own name, the same wager that the user base, not the word, is the asset — but it is a mature payments incumbent rather than a name staking out a new network.
What a .pinet domain is
.pinet is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Crypto. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .pinet domain extension real yet?
.pinet 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 .pinet domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .pinet name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .pinet was .frogans, delegated on 19 April 2014.
Is .pinet a real TLD?
Not yet. .pinet is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .pinet is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Pi Network · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string ".pinet" reads as a contraction of "Pi Network" and has no generic meaning; demand is bounded by one project's ecosystem rather than a category. A single applicant is on the record (Pi Network, legal name Pi Community Company), filed as a standard application rather than a brand application, which suggests registrations may be opened to ecosystem participants rather than held internally; a replacement string .xpi is also recorded. Why not the band above (30-49): "usable but limited" requires registrations at volume on a string that stands on its own; here nearly every registration depends on the buyer already being inside the Pi ecosystem, and outside it the string signals nothing, so the brand signal to a general audience is near zero and any aftermarket would be internal and speculative. Why not the band below (1-9): Pi Network has a large, engaged community by reputation (size unknown here), so a real if shallow, event-driven market among its users and app builders is plausible, and ecosystem apps could adopt it as a primary identity if the registry ties it to the project's wallet or username system. By analogy (flagged as analogy): blockchain-based naming systems outside ICANN saw strong speculative initial demand that tracked token sentiment and thinned between hype cycles; project-tied ICANN strings have little precedent, and the closest analogues, brand-adjacent TLDs opened to partners, generally stayed small. Main market uncertainty: whether Pi ecosystem apps and merchants actually adopt .pinet as their primary web identity over the next 5 years, or whether it remains a speculative collectible inside the community.