.hash
Is .hash a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .hash in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Identity Digital named .hash as the backup string of its .fantasy application.
A short crypto- and tech-flavored word that some projects will register, but few serious ones will make their main address.
crypto and blockchain projects, developer tools, and hashtag-style social or media brands looking for a short, jargon-aware alternative to .com
Nobody has applied for .hash 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 as .hash: a short piece of computing jargon owned by no company and no community, sold on insider recognition of a technical primitive rather than on any category of commerce a buyer would search for.
Also a short technical construct-noun whose whole case rests on one narrow builder niche adopting it as its primary identity, with no incumbent category of businesses already calling themselves that.
Like .hash it is a terse string whose technical reading (a file/compression term) competes with an everyday one, so the registry is betting the tech meaning wins the string rather than selling an obvious category.
What a .hash domain is
.hash is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Crypto category. Nobody has applied for .hash in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .hash domain extension real yet?
.hash 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 .hash domain?
You can’t yet. A .hash 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 .hash was .ping, delegated on 29 October 2015.
Is .hash a real TLD?
Not yet. .hash is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .hash as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
“TT2652T-T44201 · Toddler Logic, LLC · replacement string of .fantasy”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a real, short, technical word with two live meanings in the market (cryptographic hashing and hashtag-style social identity) plus a cannabis slang reading in some markets, which gives it recognizable, if diluted, meaning. On the record it is a standard (not brand, community or geographic) application by Identity Digital, filed as a replacement string for .fantasy, with no contention recorded; Identity Digital is an operator of a broad generic-TLD portfolio, which by analogy (flagged as analogy) tends to put a new string into wide registrar distribution quickly, so registrations at volume or on price are plausible. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evidence of sustained primary-identity demand for a function-word TLD like this: by analogy with other finance- and tech-flavored generics launched in the previous round, crypto builders have tended to settle on a handful of incumbent namespaces and use new-TLD alternatives as secondary or campaign addresses, and the word 'hash' names a technique rather than a category a company belongs to. It is not in the 10-29 band because the term is genuinely used in technology and crypto naming, the string is short and pronounceable, and a portfolio operator makes general availability and registrar carriage likely, so it is more than a vanity or joke string. Main market uncertainty: whether crypto and developer projects treat 'hash' as an identity word worth owning (which would lift this toward the strong-niche band) or as jargon they would not put on a business card; a secondary uncertainty is whether the cannabis-slang reading dominates in some regions and limits serious use.