.xmr
Is .xmr a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.xmr is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Cake Wallet.
A niche address for the Monero privacy-coin community — handy as a payment handle, but few projects will make it their main identity.
monero holders and privacy-focused crypto users who want a human-readable payment handle, plus wallets, tooling, and community projects in the Monero ecosystem
Unstoppable Domains announced (2026-08-25) that an ICANN 2026-round application has been filed for .xmr with the Monero ecosystem and Cake Wallet, for privacy-preserving payments. Unstoppable is the registry service provider, not the applicant.
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 .xmr in structure: the name of a non-corporate technology/protocol, stewarded by a mission entity rather than a company, where every plausible registrant is an ecosystem participant and the string is meaningless to anyone outside it.
Shares the shape of an opaque three-letter term that carries one fixed technical referent and a self-organizing community around it, so registrations are affiliation signals rather than category commerce, but the underlying bet is advocacy rather than an ownerless currency ecosystem.
Parallel on the governance question rather than the string type: a community's own name where the TLD only works if that community accepts an outside registry as legitimate steward of its identity, which is the central risk for a decentralized protocol's ticker; unlike .xmr it had an actual institution able to grant that legitimacy.
What a .xmr domain is
.xmr is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Crypto category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .xmr domain extension real yet?
.xmr 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 .xmr domain?
You can’t yet. A .xmr 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 .xmr was .frogans, delegated on 19 April 2014.
Is .xmr a real TLD?
Not yet. .xmr is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .xmr is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Cake Wallet · now confirmedICANN
- Cake Wallet · first recordedUnstoppable Domains
“.XMR — With the Monero ecosystem and Cake Wallet, for privacy-preserving payments. One of our strongest launches to date, with more than 1,800 names minted at release.”Unstoppable Domains
- I place .xmr at the bottom of the 30-49 'usable but limited' band. It clears the vanity band below because the demand is not event-driven novelty: the string maps to a real, ideologically committed community with a concrete recurring use case — human-readable payment handles for a currency whose users actively transact — and the applicant is itself a wallet, which shortens the path from name to working resolution. It does not reach the 50-69 'strong niche' band because genuine primary-identity use is likely to stay rare: Monero's user base is a small subset of crypto, privacy coins face persistent regulatory and platform headwinds that suppress merchant-facing adoption (qualitative judgment, no specific events asserted), and a ticker string signals affiliation more than brand quality, so the aftermarket for individual .xmr names should be thin outside a handful of dictionary and handle-style names. By analogy (flagged as such), crypto-native naming systems have shown that handle demand inside a coin's community can be real but concentrated, with weak crossover to conventional web identity; a single-coin ticker TLD inherits the narrow end of that pattern. The verified launch count of more than 1,800 names minted at release is consistent with a committed but small early community rather than volume demand. My main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether .xmr resolution gets integrated beyond the applicant's own wallet into the broader Monero tooling ecosystem — if handles resolve nearly everywhere Monero is used, sustained utility demand firms up; if resolution stays confined to one wallet, demand decays toward vanity.