.scroll
Is .scroll a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .scroll, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
An evocative word for artists, writers, and one crypto community, but few serious projects would make it their main address.
indie writers, digital artists, zine and webcomic makers, plus web3 teams riffing on the "scroll" name; mostly side projects and creative vanity registrations rather than primary business identities
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Where painting and poetry unfurl together.”
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 everyday interaction-verb with no owning industry, so the registry must sell pure connotation about how people move through content to a wide undefined pool rather than to any identifiable trade.
Same bet of monetizing a consumption-behavior word describing the act of taking media in rather than the media itself, though it had a real broadcast/OTT industry forming behind it where a feed-behavior verb has none.
Same dual-register bet — an everyday verb of consuming text that also carries a bookish artifact-of-writing connotation — but it leans on the established publishing category in a way a feed-behavior word cannot.
What a .scroll domain is
.scroll is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. Nobody is chasing .scroll today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .scroll domain extension real yet?
.scroll 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 .scroll domain?
You can’t yet. A .scroll name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .scroll was .click, delegated on 16 August 2014.
Is .scroll a real TLD?
Not yet. .scroll is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .scroll and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.scroll · Craft & Art · “Where painting and poetry unfurl together.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place .scroll in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band, at 22. The string is a pleasant dictionary word with two loose pulls: a craft/art/publishing connotation (the applicant's catalog frames it as 'Where painting and poetry unfurl together') and, from my own knowledge, an overlap with a well-known Ethereum scaling project branded Scroll, which could seed some ecosystem and speculative registrations. By analogy with word-TLDs like .ink and .art (flagged as analogy), even the stronger of these creative strings achieved only niche primary-identity use, and .scroll lacks .art's clear professional buyer class, so it does not reach the 30-49 band where registrations happen at real volume; it stays above 1-9 because the word is short, memorable, and has at least two plausible buyer communities. The applicant is one of 323 strings in a published portfolio, which suggests broad catalog distribution rather than a dedicated community push behind this one string; I treat that neutrally as a modest drag on focused adoption. Main market uncertainty: whether the crypto-brand affinity converts into a real registrant community or the string remains a generic word with no category pull.