.stake
Is .stake a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.stake is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 8 October 2026. It is Easygo Group Holdings Pty Ltd. Identity Digital named .stake as a backup string for its .creator application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Identity Digital named .stake as a backup string for its .agi application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Identity Digital named .stake as a backup string for its .nerd application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A one-company brand namespace on a word that reads as crypto staking or betting; useful to its owner, not a market for anyone else.
the applicant itself as a single-brand namespace; if it were ever opened, proof-of-stake and staking services, betting and gaming brands, and equity or stakeholder platforms
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .nerd application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .agi application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .creator application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 exactly: a short, single-syllable generic English noun for money placed at risk, open to any operator or affiliate who wants the wagering category keyword as their primary identity, and valuable only if that vertical treats the word as its own.
Same shape of bet — a one-syllable, polysemous act-of-committing-value noun that reads as both a category keyword and a brandable word a single marketplace operator could own — but its buyer pool is auctions and procurement rather than wagering or capital-at-risk.
Covers the other half of the target's meaning (a position or share one puts capital into), sold on the same premise that a plain finance-speculation word is identity enough, though it is a longer descriptive gerund that reads as a category label rather than a word one company could carry as a brand.
What a .stake domain is
.stake 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 .stake domain extension real yet?
.stake 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 .stake domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .stake name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .stake was .bet, delegated on 24 July 2015.
Is .stake a real TLD?
Not yet. .stake is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .stake is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“EGHP2695T-T22968 · Easygo Group Holdings Pty Ltd · primary”ICANN
“CFL2645T-T67079 · Cold Fleet, LLC · replacement string of .nerd · Deactivated CFL2645T-T71728 · Cold Fleet, LLC · replacement string of .agi · Deactivated CFL2645T-T95485 · Cold Fleet, LLC · replacement string of .creator · Deactivated EGHP2695T-T22968 · Easygo Group Holdings Pty Ltd · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The only confirmed application on the record is a brand-type application from Easygo Group Holdings Pty Ltd; a second, standard-type application from Identity Digital is recorded as deactivated. A brand-type TLD is, by its nature, a closed namespace run for one organisation, so the realistic market for addresses on it is the owner's own properties, not third parties. By analogy (flagged as analogy), existing dot-brand TLDs tend to see modest internal use for campaign or product addresses and effectively no aftermarket, which is why this sits below the 30-49 band: there are no volume registrations and no price-driven demand to count. It sits above the 1-9 band because the string itself is a strong, short, single-word term with live meaning in two active sectors, proof-of-stake crypto staking and betting, and a brand owner in either sector gets genuine primary-identity utility from a memorable owned namespace, which is more than a joke or vanity string offers. Main market uncertainty: whether the owner uses the namespace actively as a customer-facing identity (which would lift it toward the top of this band) or keeps it defensive and dormant, as many dot-brands by analogy appear to do; a separate uncertainty is that the word's crypto-staking meaning could, if the TLD were ever opened to third parties, support real niche demand, but nothing on the record suggests that.