.usdt
Is .usdt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.usdt is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Tether Operations, Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable.
A stablecoin's own namespace: useful as a trust signal for its issuer, but with a single owner there is no market for addresses.
the issuer of the USDT stablecoin and its own products, wallets and verification pages; no third-party buyers if it runs as a closed brand TLD
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.
Like .usdt, it is a short clipped acronym naming the issuer's own payment instrument rather than the corporate entity, so the bet is that one financial company can own the shorthand its users already type for the money it moves.
Same bet of a single-registrant TLD resting on the brand of settlement rails that third parties integrate with, where value comes from being the unit transactions are denominated in rather than from any category meaning.
Also one company claiming its own payments product name, but it is a consumer wallet brand with a visible parent identity, whereas .usdt is a bearer-asset ticker whose kind of string had no real 2012 equivalent.
What a .usdt domain is
.usdt 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 .usdt domain extension real yet?
.usdt 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 .usdt domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .usdt name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .usdt was .amex, delegated on 8 August 2016.
Is .usdt a real TLD?
Not yet. .usdt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .usdt is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Tether Operations, Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable · first recordedICANN
“TOSD2642T-T92840 · Tether Operations, Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its upper edge. The verified-facts block records one application, from Tether Operations, filed as a brand type; a brand TLD is normally registrant-restricted to the applicant, so the string has one buyer and no aftermarket by construction. By analogy (flagged as analogy), earlier-round brand TLDs have ranged from dormant to actively used as the operator's primary identity, and the ones that got real use did so as anti-phishing trust anchors — a plausible fit here, since stablecoin users are heavily targeted by lookalike sites, so an official-only namespace has genuine end-use utility to the issuer. That utility keeps it out of the 1-9 band. It does not reach 30-49 because that band assumes registrations happen at volume or on price; a closed brand TLD has neither registrations nor resale, and the string's wider crypto appeal (a ticker-like word) cannot be captured by third parties. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether the issuer actually migrates primary surfaces (wallet, explorer, verification) onto the TLD and promotes it as the canonical address, versus holding it defensively.