.solana
Is .solana a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.solana 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 chain-specific crypto address: handy for Solana-ecosystem projects, but most will still pick .com or on-chain names first.
solana-ecosystem builders — dapps, validators, wallets, token and NFT projects wanting a chain-aligned web address — plus speculators who buy into crypto-vertical strings during market upswings
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, single-owner platform name opened up as the namespace for a third-party builder ecosystem, where the string's worth rests entirely on whether developers choose to wear the platform's name as their own identity.
Same bet: a meaningless coined word for a proprietary technical protocol stewarded by a non-commercial foundation, betting that an ecosystem it does not control will adopt the protocol and want addresses inside it.
Same bet in shape — a developer-platform brand as a namespace for the people who build on it — but the string is an ordinary word with a prior meaning and the owner was a conventional corporation rather than a protocol foundation.
What a .solana domain is
.solana 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 .solana domain extension real yet?
.solana 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 .solana domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .solana name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .solana was .android, delegated on 12 November 2014.
Is .solana a real TLD?
Not yet. .solana is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .solana 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 names one specific blockchain, so its addressable market is that chain's project ecosystem rather than a category of the economy. By analogy (flagged as analogy): crypto-flavoured naming has shown real but cycle-driven demand, and chain-native naming systems (on-chain names rather than DNS TLDs) have tended to become the identity default inside their own ecosystems, which caps what a DNS TLD for the same chain can capture. It is not in the 50-69 band because adoption would need explaining and most serious projects in the ecosystem can be expected to keep a .com or a short tech-style TLD as primary identity and treat a chain-named address as a secondary or promotional one; the aftermarket is likely to be thin outside market upswings. It is not in the 10-29 band because the ecosystem it names is large and active enough that genuine primary-identity use by some projects, tools and community sites is plausible over the next 5 years, and chain-aligned strings carry more durable intent than a joke or vanity string. The applicant on the record is Red Rock (Cayman) Foundation (legal name Ana Naming Limited), a standard application with one applicant on the record; whether that applicant is affiliated with or endorsed by the chain's foundation or core ecosystem is unknown, and that bears directly on adoption likelihood. Main market uncertainty: whether ecosystem wallets, explorers and the chain's foundation treat .solana as a sanctioned namespace (driving default adoption) or whether on-chain naming stays the community norm and .solana remains a peripheral registration channel.