.sol
Is .sol a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.sol is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Red Rock (Cayman) Foundation.
A crypto-ecosystem address with a real fan base, but most projects will keep a mainstream domain as their main identity.
crypto builders, wallets and communities tied to the Solana ecosystem, plus Spanish/Portuguese-speaking brands drawn to the word for sun
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: the proper name of a non-DNS addressing network whose own steward applies so that the address space its community already holds gains standing inside the DNS, which makes the namespace worth exactly what that one network's adoption is worth and nothing at all outside it.
Same platform-as-namespace wager: a single-steward platform name that only pays off if an outside ecosystem of third-party builders and ordinary handle-holders puts its primary identity inside the platform owner's namespace rather than the steward being its only meaningful registrant.
Same move on the ticker side — a three-letter market symbol for one financial asset turned into the namespace of the entity behind it, fluent to insiders and unparseable to everyone else — but TRV answers to a single corporate owner, whereas the target string is also an everyday Spanish and Portuguese noun with claimants who have nothing to do with the asset.
What a .sol domain is
.sol 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 .sol domain extension real yet?
.sol 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 .sol domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .sol name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .sol was .frogans, delegated on 19 April 2014.
Is .sol a real TLD?
Not yet. .sol is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .sol is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Red Rock (Cayman) Foundation · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string carries two kinds of demand: it is strongly associated with a major blockchain ecosystem's ticker and an existing onchain naming culture, and it is the word for sun in Spanish and Portuguese, which gives it some generic brand appeal outside crypto. The single application on the record is a community-type application from Red Rock (Cayman) Foundation (legal name Sol Naming Limited), which suggests the namespace is positioned around that ecosystem rather than as an open generic; a community framing can concentrate adoption among committed users but tends to narrow the buyer pool. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with crypto-flavored DNS strings and with blockchain-native name systems, serious projects in that ecosystem have mostly kept a mainstream TLD as primary identity and treated the ecosystem name as a wallet handle or vanity layer, so sustained primary-identity use on the DNS side is unproven (analogy, not measured). It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not event-driven or joke-driven: there is an existing base of people who already use this string as an identity onchain, and a DNS version that resolves in ordinary browsers has a plausible reason to be registered and renewed (analogy from onchain name systems whose holders have shown repeat demand). Main market uncertainty: whether the DNS TLD and the existing onchain names converge into one namespace that holders treat as their real identity, or fragment into two parallel registries, which would push resale value and renewals down toward the vanity band. Specific counts, prices, and dates are unknown from the record.