.uid
Is .uid a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.uid is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Innovation Service Limited.
A short identity-tech abbreviation with niche appeal for login and ID projects, but rarely a serious primary web address.
identity and authentication vendors, decentralized-ID and crypto wallet projects, and developers wanting a short technical hostname for user-ID or login services
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 as .uid in string-type terms: a three-letter lowercase internet-plumbing abbreviation that is meaningless outside the engineering community that coined it, wagering that an insider technical term can carry primary identity on the public DNS.
The closest bet by purpose — a unique-identifier scheme for entities trying to become an addressable namespace, so the name you put forward is your assigned identifier rather than a word anyone reads.
Shares the 'this namespace answers who you are' wager and the registry-as-identity-authority premise, but it bets on a legible dictionary phrase and a directory of people, where .uid bets on an opaque identifier token.
What a .uid domain is
.uid is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .uid domain extension real yet?
.uid 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 .uid domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .uid name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .uid a real TLD?
Not yet. .uid is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .uid is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Innovation Service Limited · first recordedICANN
“ISL2626T-T35274 · Innovation Service Limited · primary”ICANN
“AT2680T-T24214 · Arctic Tan, LLC · primary ISL2626T-T43193 · Innovation Service Limited · replacement string of .faq · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string reads as the technical abbreviation for 'user ID' or 'unique identifier', which gives it a clear meaning to engineers but little meaning to the general public. Plausible buyers are identity-and-access vendors, decentralized-identity and wallet projects, and developers wanting a short hostname for a login or ID service; a small group may use it as a product subdomain or redirect, but over the next 5 years it is unlikely that many serious projects would choose it as their primary identity over a .com or .io, and aftermarket demand is expected to be thin. By analogy (flagged as analogy), identity-flavoured generic namespaces such as .name have faded into low-volume use, while .id has found real use mostly where its ccTLD home market drives adoption rather than from the identity meaning alone; .uid lacks that local anchor. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident buyer group registering at volume or on price, and the brand signal is weak outside developer circles; it is not in the 1-9 band because the string is short, pronounceable, and has a genuine technical niche (auth endpoints, verifiable-ID services) that can sustain some ongoing registrations. The record shows one confirmed standard application by Innovation Service Limited, with no category tag recorded, which tells us nothing yet about pricing, marketing, or a committed anchor platform. Main market uncertainty: whether any sizeable identity or wallet platform adopts .uid as a per-user namespace, which would convert a technical label into recognised identity addresses and move it toward the strong-niche band.