.ripple
Is .ripple a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.ripple is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Ripple Labs Inc..
A single-company brand domain: useful only to Ripple itself, with no open market for anyone else to buy or resell addresses.
the applicant company and its own products, partners and campaigns; not open to outside registrants
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 single financial-services company putting its primary identity on an everyday English word it does not own generically, so the namespace only works if the trademark outranks the dictionary meaning for everyone typing it.
Same bet: a closed corporate namespace built on a plain common noun by a company whose name was borrowed from general language, carrying identical exclusivity and confusion risk against the ordinary-word reading.
Same bet in structure — one corporation claiming a short ambiguous common word with several non-brand meanings — but the applicant is a legacy consumer transport brand rather than a tech-infrastructure firm selling to developers and institutions.
What a .ripple domain is
.ripple 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 .ripple domain extension real yet?
.ripple 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 .ripple domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ripple name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ripple was .discover, delegated on 28 July 2016.
Is .ripple a real TLD?
Not yet. .ripple is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .ripple is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Ripple Labs Inc. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows one application, by Ripple Labs Inc., filed as a brand type, which means the registry would be closed to the public: no third-party registrations, no aftermarket, no price signal. Value therefore collapses to end-use utility for one organisation. By analogy (flagged as analogy), brand TLDs from earlier rounds have mostly been held defensively or used for a handful of redirect or campaign addresses, with a minority adopting them as a genuine primary web identity; some were later retired. 'Ripple' is also a common dictionary word, but under a brand application that breadth cannot be monetised by anyone else, so it does not lift the score. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no volume or price-driven registrations at all and the brand signal reaches no buyer beyond the applicant. It is not in the 1-9 band because a well-known payments and crypto brand can plausibly put its own products, developer portals or payment endpoints on the string as a primary identity, which is a real if narrow use. Main market uncertainty: whether the company will actually migrate customer-facing or developer-facing properties to the string, or hold it defensively like most brand TLDs by analogy.