.coin
Is .coin a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.coin is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Identity Digital, Radix and Link Freedom Group. XYZ Registry named .coin as a backup string for its .research application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A catchy crypto-flavored address that will sell to token projects and speculators, but few serious ventures will make it their main identity.
crypto and web3 teams (tokens, wallets, exchanges, payment apps) plus domain speculators betting on the next crypto cycle; secondarily fintech and loyalty-points products wanting a money-adjacent name.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Spend, save, and swap your way.”
One of 46 ICANN 2026-round applications Radix announced on its own applications page. Radix states it intends to build and operate each TLD it wins.
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .research 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: a one-syllable, concrete noun for a unit of money that no single company owns, sold to any payments/value-transfer operator willing to put its primary brand on the medium of exchange itself rather than on its firm name.
The same generic finance-category noun play, where the registry's premise is that the entire money sector is large and identity-hungry enough that the plain word outranks a corporate name as an address.
Also a monetary-object noun with dual duty as a store-of-value asset class and as an aspirational modifier, so it monetizes both an industry of dealers/issuers and generic brand-flavor buyers the way .coin would.
What a .coin domain is
.coin is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Crypto category. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .coin domain extension real yet?
.coin 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 .coin domain?
You can’t yet. A .coin 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 .coin was .cash, delegated on 23 April 2014.
Is .coin a real TLD?
Not yet. .coin is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .coin is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“LFGL2683T-T60410 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-42 PTL2645T-T92469 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-42 RTIS2674T-T69091 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-42”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T60410 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-42 PTL2645T-T92469 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-42 RTIS2674T-T69091 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-42 XL2625T-T71857 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .research · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
“.coin · Crypto & Web3 · “Spend, save, and swap your way.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is short, generic, and instantly legible as money/crypto, which supports registration volume and event-driven bursts during crypto upcycles. But it is not in the 50-69 band because, judging by analogy, crypto-themed extensions in the DNS have historically seen registrations concentrate in speculation and defensive buys rather than sustained primary-identity use; established crypto companies overwhelmingly brand on mainstream extensions, and a .coin address adds a niche-flavored signal rather than mainstream credibility. It is above the 10-29 band because, again by analogy with other money/web3-adjacent strings, there is a real recurring buyer population (token launches, wallets, payment experiments) that will pay for exact-brand matches, so demand is more than vanity or a one-off joke. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and lists this one under 'Crypto & Web3' with the tagline 'Spend, save, and swap your way.', which is consistent with a broad-portfolio play rather than a community-anchored registry; that neither raises nor lowers the string's intrinsic appeal, but portfolio-scale launches (by analogy with prior large portfolio registries) often lean on volume or promotional pricing, which tends to cap brand signal and aftermarket floor prices. Main market uncertainty: whether the next 5 years bring a crypto adoption cycle strong enough that consumer-facing crypto brands begin choosing category TLDs as primary identities, or whether crypto naming stays consolidated on mainstream extensions and blockchain-native (non-DNS) naming systems; that single dynamic could move this string a full band in either direction.