.stone
Is .stone a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.stone is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is XYZ.
A plain word with a small real trade behind it; expect cheap, scattered registrations rather than a serious go-to web identity.
stone, masonry, countertop and landscaping businesses; gemstone and jewelry sellers; and people or brands with "stone" in their name looking for a short exact-match address
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Simple, elemental, and foundational to every game.”
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 singular common-noun building material that nobody owns, sold as an identity layer to a fragmented trade of fabricators, installers and suppliers with no namespace of their own, and like stone it doubles as a surname and a metaphor so demand splits between the trade and generic-word buyers.
Same structural bet that an entire supply-and-install trade will re-identify under its own product word, but it is plural, purely commercial, and carries none of the surname or metaphor upside a single common noun like stone gets.
Also a natural mineral-material noun betting that an extraction-to-retail vertical adopts its own commodity as a namespace, but it skews to consumer luxury retail rather than the quarry, mason and contractor base a material string like this depends on.
What a .stone domain is
.stone is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .stone domain extension real yet?
.stone 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 .stone domain?
You can’t yet. A .stone 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 .stone was .glass, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .stone a real TLD?
Not yet. .stone is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .stone is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.stone · Martial & Strategy · “Simple, elemental, and foundational to every game.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place .stone in the 30-49 band (usable but limited). It is a common English noun, surname, and frequent brand element, so a trickle of genuine primary-identity use is plausible — which keeps it out of the 10-29 vanity band. But its natural vertical (stone fabrication, masonry, countertops) is offline-heavy and .com-anchored, and by analogy with single-material or material-adjacent generics like .rocks and .diamonds — which drew modest, price-driven registrations without becoming category identities — .stone is unlikely to reach the sustained, explained-once adoption of the 50-69 band within 5 years. The applicant is a Beijing-based company that announced a portfolio of 323 submitted strings and lists this one under a gaming-themed catalog category, which suggests a broad portfolio launch rather than a dedicated vertical push; that is an adoption-likelihood input, not a judgment of the applicant. My main market uncertainty: whether brand-suffix demand (the many businesses named X-Stone or Stone-X) converts into paid exact-match registrations or stays on .com — that swing decides whether this sits near the top or bottom of its band.