.fart
Is .fart a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.fart is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Endpoint Domains. Link Freedom Group named .fart as a backup string for its .index application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A gag domain for jokes, memes, and prank gifts; fun to own briefly, but almost no serious project would make it a real address.
meme creators, prank-gift buyers, comedy brands, and novelty registrants who want a laugh-out-loud address for a joke site, a shareable stunt, or a gift for a friend
One of eight strings Endpoint Domains, Inc. disclosed as primary applications in the ICANN 2026 round (fully paid, per trade press); the company says more applications will be disclosed later.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Sometimes you just have to let go.”
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 crude, unserious piece of everyday vulgar speech that nobody makes their primary corporate identity on, monetized through cheap novelty and punchline registrations rather than any vertical of businesses.
Same bet on internet humor vocabulary — the string's value is the joke it completes in a domain, not a category of registrants who would put a real business identity behind it.
Also a pure humor/expressive token with no underlying industry to sell into, though it reads as friendlier slang and carries more mainstream messaging-culture reach than a bodily-function word.
What a .fart domain is
.fart is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .fart domain extension real yet?
.fart 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 .fart domain?
You can’t yet. A .fart 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 .fart was .wtf, delegated on 23 April 2014.
Is .fart a real TLD?
Not yet. .fart is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .fart is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- Endpoint Domains · now confirmedICANN
- Endpoint Domains · first recordedDomain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“EDI2665T-T97505 · Endpoint Domains, Inc. · primary LFGL2683T-T63176 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .index · Deactivated”ICANN
“The company says the applications are fully paid.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
“.fart · Culture · “Sometimes you just have to let go.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string is a scatological joke word; its entire value is comedic shock, which lands once and decays. It is not in the 30-49 band because sustained volume registration is unlikely: humor-adjacent TLDs (by analogy to strings like .wtf, .lol, and .fail) show that even broadly applicable joke strings struggle to become primary identities, and .fart is far narrower than those, with essentially no adjacent serious use case (no plausible reading as a product category, profession, or place). It is above the 1-9 band because a realistic market does exist: novelty and gift registrations, meme-driven stunts, and comedy projects generate real, if shallow, launch-spike demand, and short memorable joke domains do change hands in the aftermarket at modest levels, again by analogy to other humor TLDs. Renewal behavior is the core weakness: joke registrations are analogously renewal-poor, so the base likely churns hard after year one. Applicant context, stated neutrally: the string was announced by Link Freedom Group in the ICANN 2026 round, categorized as Culture with the tagline "Sometimes you just have to let go."; a large-portfolio applicant suggests standard registrar distribution, which mildly supports availability-driven novelty sales but does not change the demand ceiling. Main market uncertainty: whether meme-economy dynamics over the next 5 years (short-form video, viral stunt marketing) can convert one-off gag registrations into a repeatable, renewing base, or whether demand stays a launch-window spike.