New gTLD

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. New gTLDs vary widely in price and adoption, and — like any TLD — in how readily they support an on-chain ownership layer; the newer, more web-native extensions are often the most open to Namefi tokenization. Sources: ICANN new gTLD program; ICANN TLD listings.