New gTLD
A generic top-level domain introduced by ICANN's expansion program, such as .app, .xyz, or .shop.
- glossary
A new gTLD is one of the hundreds of generic top-level domains that ICANN introduced through its expansion program, which began delegating strings like .app, .xyz, .io, .dev, and .shop from 2013 onward. The program opened the right-of-the-dot namespace beyond the original handful, letting brands and communities run their own registry and giving registrants far more naming choice.
Related keywords
- new gTLD
- ICANN expansion
- .app
- .xyz
- .shop
- domain extension
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.