.bonded
Is .bonded a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .bonded, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A niche trade-jargon word; useful to a few customs warehouses and insured contractors, but rarely anyone's main web address.
bonded-warehouse and customs-logistics operators, cross-border e-commerce fulfillment providers, and licensed-and-bonded service contractors wanting a trust-signal domain
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Goods held duty-free, ready for the next step.”
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 trust-assertion word whose value comes entirely from the registry policing who may hold it, sold to service and financial businesses wanting third-party-verified assurance as their identity rather than a category label.
Also an adjective claiming a protective property as primary identity, but the claim is self-asserted rather than conferred by an outside surety, so the eligibility-verification machinery that makes .bonded mean anything is optional here.
Shares the credential mechanic — a status granted by an external body, worn as identity, worthless unless enforced at registration — though it names one profession's members rather than a financial guarantee any trade can carry.
What a .bonded domain is
.bonded is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. Nobody is chasing .bonded today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .bonded domain extension real yet?
.bonded is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .bonded domain?
You can’t yet. A .bonded 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 .bonded was .trust, delegated on 6 December 2014.
Is .bonded a real TLD?
Not yet. .bonded is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .bonded and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.bonded · Trade & Logistics · “Goods held duty-free, ready for the next step.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29: 'bonded' is a real term of art in two markets — customs/duty-free logistics (bonded warehouses, prominent in cross-border e-commerce) and service trades ('licensed, bonded and insured') — so shallow genuine demand exists, keeping it above the 1-9 no-market band. But it is a past-participle adjective, not a category noun, and by analogy adjective/descriptor TLDs like .express, .storage, or .insure have historically seen thin registration bases and near-zero primary-identity use, which keeps it below the 30-49 volume band. Serious logistics firms brand on their company name plus .com or a country code; .bonded would at best serve as a defensive or campaign registration. Main market uncertainty: whether any large cross-border fulfillment platform (particularly in China, where bonded-zone e-commerce is a significant sector) adopts it as an identity layer for warehouse or facility naming, which is the only path (by analogy to vertical TLDs that found an anchor tenant) to sustained demand. Applicant is one of 323 strings in a single published portfolio, suggesting broad-catalog positioning rather than a dedicated vertical push; that is a neutral applicant fact bearing only on adoption likelihood.