.deeptech
Is .deeptech a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .deeptech in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .deeptech as the backup string of its .crypto application.
A sector buzzword as a web address: appealing to a few startup and investor sites, but rarely anyone's main domain.
deep-tech startups, venture funds, accelerators and university spinouts that want a sector label in the address, plus event and community sites in that ecosystem
Nobody has applied for .deeptech in its own right.
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: an unowned, self-describing sector label that any company in the technology economy can claim as its primary identity, sold on the sector's self-identification rather than on a brand, place or community roll.
Same bet one notch narrower — a jargon sector noun that only the industry itself uses, betting that a hot specialty segment is coherent and durable enough for firms to hang their identity on a label whose boundaries nobody actually agrees on.
Same bet aimed at the research-and-R&D buyer that .deeptech courts, but it is a settled field-of-knowledge word with institutional incumbents rather than an emerging-segment coinage, so the identity it offers is inherited rather than claimed.
What a .deeptech domain is
.deeptech is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. Nobody has applied for .deeptech in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .deeptech domain extension real yet?
.deeptech is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .deeptech domain?
You can’t yet. A .deeptech 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 .deeptech was .tech, delegated on 21 March 2015.
Is .deeptech a real TLD?
Not yet. .deeptech is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .deeptech as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T45334 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .crypto”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is an eight-letter compound that names a venture-capital sector label rather than a thing people do or sell, and the companies that label describes already have shorter, better-understood namespaces (.ai, .tech, .com, .io as analogies) for a primary identity. It is not in the 30-49 band because the term is jargon outside startup and investor circles, the string is long for a suffix, and I see no mechanism for registrations at volume beyond price promotions; the plausible registrants are funds, accelerators, conference sites and a handful of startups wanting a sector badge, which is a shallow, event-driven pool with a thin aftermarket. It is above the 1-9 band because the sector label is in live use in startup and policy vocabulary, and a few investor or community sites would plausibly adopt it as a memorable secondary address, so a small real market exists. By analogy (flagged), narrow sector-compound TLDs such as .ventures, .capital and .startup produced modest registration bases and little aftermarket; .deeptech is narrower still. The applicant facts on record: Radix holds the sole application, filed as a replacement string for its primary .crypto application, with zero contention recorded; a registry with an existing portfolio makes a channel launch and price-led promotions plausible, which supports the top of this band but not the next. Main market uncertainty: whether 'deeptech' remains a durable sector label through 2031 or is absorbed into AI, climate and hardware vocabularies, which would shrink the already small buyer pool.