.hive
Is .hive a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.hive is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is GoDaddy Registry. Suffix named .hive as a backup string for its .tag application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A catchy word for teams, co-ops and swarm-style tech projects, but most buyers will need a reason to pick it over .com.
collectives, coworking spaces, community platforms and multi-agent or crypto projects that want a "hive mind" identity; secondary buyers are brands already trading on the Hive name
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .tag 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 short figurative English noun for a bounded group of people, owned by no existing category, sold on the hope that collectives will adopt a metaphor as their primary identity.
Same bet in a different register — an evocative, unowned abstract noun whose only value is connotation (a point where things converge), so it works only if brandable-generic meaning beats literal search demand.
Also a figurative space-noun pitched as a home for groups and projects rather than a defined industry, but it is looser and more all-purpose than hive's specific collective/swarm connotation.
What a .hive domain is
.hive is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .hive domain extension real yet?
.hive 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 .hive domain?
You can’t yet. A .hive 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 .hive was .circle, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .hive a real TLD?
Not yet. .hive is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .hive is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a short, real English word with positive collective connotations (hive mind, swarm, colony), and several unrelated technology, data, blockchain and consumer products already trade on the Hive name, so there is a ready pool of brand-defensive and brandable demand. The verified-facts block records one confirmed standard application from GoDaddy Registry, whose distribution reach makes volume registrations at retail plausible; that supports the floor of this band. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy to other group-semantic strings such as .team, .group, .club and .zone (analogy, not fact), these have tended to produce price-driven volume and sporadic brand use rather than a category where serious projects default to the TLD without explanation, and their aftermarkets have been thin. It is not in the 10-29 band because, unlike joke or event-driven strings, .hive carries a credible primary-identity use case for coworking spaces, cooperatives, community platforms and the growing set of multi-agent AI and swarm-style projects, and the word itself adds a small but real brand signal. Main market uncertainty: whether hive will be read as a community/collective namespace with sustained organic demand, or merely as a trademark cluster whose owners register defensively and never resolve to it.