.wtf

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{{Short description|Internet top-level domain}}

{{Infobox top level domain

| name = .wtf

| status = Active

| image = DotWTF domain logo.png

| introduced = 23 April 2014

| removed =

| type = Generic

| registry = Identity Digital

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| registereddomains = ~4,350,000 pages

| dateregistereddomains = February 2022

| refregistereddomains = {{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=site:.wtf|title=site:.wtf|website=Google Search|access-date=2021-05-29|archive-date=2021-05-30|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210530025214/https://www.google.com/search?q=site:.wtf|url-status=live}}

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.wtf is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) run by Identity Digital, a gTLD registry.{{Cite web |url=https://donuts.domains/great-domains/fun-domains/ |title=Donuts and Domain Names : Donuts Inc. |access-date=2020-01-23 |archive-date=2020-08-11 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200811181457/https://donuts.domains/great-domains/fun-domains/ |url-status=dead }} It is derived from "WTF".{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/224918#eid140328014|encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary| title=WTF|date=March 2021| orig-date=entry added March 2009| quote=WTF int. (also w.t.f., W.T.F., wtf) (esp. in the language of electronic communications) ‘what the fuck?’; used to express incredulity or annoyance.| access-date=2021-05-29|url-status= live|archive-url= https://archive.today/20210530035413/https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/224918#eid140328014|archive-date=2021-05-30}}

In June 2012, Ryan Singel of Wired predicted no one would ever set up the .wtf domain,{{Cite magazine| url= https://www.wired.com/2012/06/domain-names-that-should-exist/| title=.WTF? — 20 New Top-Level Domain Names That Should Exist, But Never Will| magazine=Wired|last=Singel|first=Ryan|author-link=Ryan Singel|date=2012-06-14|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-29| archive-url= https://archive.today/20150204171148/http://www.wired.com/2012/06/domain-names-that-should-exist/|archive-date=2015-02-04}} but later that month an application for the domain was submitted to ICANN, and although in August 2012 the Saudi Arabian government objected to .wtf and 30 other newly proposed top-level domains such as .gay, .bible and .islam,{{Cite web| url= http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/08/16/icann_top_level_domain_applications_saudi_arabia_apparently_objects_to_catholic_gay_bible_.html?from=rss/&wpisrc=newsletter_slatest|title=Saudi Arabia Apparently Objects to .Catholic, .Gay, .Bible, and 28 More Proposed New Top-Level Domains |website= Slate|date=2012-08-06| last=Bosch|first=Torie|access-date= 2021-05-29|url-status=live|archive-date=2020-03-22|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200322155506/https://slate.com/technology/2012/08/icann-top-level-domain-applications-saudi-arabia-apparently-objects-to-catholic-gay-bible.html}}{{Cite web| url= https://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/14/tech/web/saudi-arabia-icann-disputes/index.html| title=Saudi Arabia objects to .gay and .islam domain names| website=CNN|date=2012-08-15|last=Kelly|first=Heather|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-29|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210530025458/https://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/14/tech/web/saudi-arabia-icann-disputes/index.html|archive-date=2021-05-30}} ICANN approved .wtf on 23 April 2014.{{cite web|url=https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings|title=Delegated Strings: New ICANN gTLDs|website=ICANN|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-29|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210530030534/https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings|archive-date=2021-05-30}} Google indexed about 4,350,000 webpages with the .wtf domain.