.bolt
Is .bolt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.bolt is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Bolt Technology OÜ.
A company's own namespace: handy for Bolt's apps, links and campaigns, but outsiders are unlikely to be able to buy an address on it.
the applicant company itself and its own products, regions and marketing campaigns; third parties are unlikely to be eligible to register, so there is no outside buyer group
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: an ordinary short English word that a consumer transport operator claims as its own closed namespace, where the only registrant is the company and the value is cheap, phishing-resistant addresses for its app, bookings and per-market microsites rather than any sellable market.
Same bet: a plain dictionary word that happens to be a mass-market consumer service brand operating under one name across many countries, applied for so the company can put its primary identity on the word itself — with the same exposure that the word is generic and other firms use it too.
Also a common English word taken as a single company's namespace for a consumer-facing travel and mobility brand, but the bet is slightly different because the holder is a licensing house spanning many unrelated businesses rather than one app with one product identity.
What a .bolt domain is
.bolt is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .bolt domain extension real yet?
.bolt 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 .bolt domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .bolt name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .bolt was .delta, delegated on 11 July 2015.
Is .bolt a real TLD?
Not yet. .bolt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .bolt is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Bolt Technology OÜ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed application from Bolt Technology OÜ with no category tag and no contention. The applicant name is consistent with a company that would run .bolt as a single-registrant brand namespace rather than an open registry; that is an inference from the applicant name, not a fact on the record. If it operates that way, the only 'buyer' is the operator itself, and the value is operational: short, memorable addresses for the company's own apps, city or country microsites, driver and partner portals, and campaign links, with the TLD doubling as a phishing-resistant signal that a link is genuinely the company's. By analogy, the 2012-round brand TLDs show a wide spread of outcomes: some brands moved their primary web presence onto their own TLD and use it actively, while a large share registered only the mandatory nic. domain, left the TLD dormant, or later terminated the registry agreement — so sustained use is far from guaranteed. Not the band above (30-49), because 'usable but limited' presumes registrations at volume and some aftermarket; a closed brand TLD has no public registrations and no resale market at all, so resale/brand strength for anyone other than the operator is effectively nil. Not the band below (1-9), because there is a realistic, if narrow, market: the operator is a well-known consumer brand (from my knowledge, not the record) with reasons to use a branded namespace across many markets, and a used brand TLD does deliver genuine primary-identity utility to that one party. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates customer-facing surfaces onto .bolt within five years or treats it as a defensive, mostly dormant holding; the second outcome would push the score toward the bottom of the band. A secondary uncertainty is that 'bolt' is also a common word and shared by other companies, which could make the string contested or make public-facing use less distinctive than a coined brand would be.