.charge
Is .charge a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.charge is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is NextGEN TLDs GmbH.
A clear EV-charging and payments word, but most buyers will keep .com; expect niche use that needs explaining.
EV-charging operators, battery and energy startups, and payment or billing products, plus a few brands wanting verb hacks like super.charge or fast.charge
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 as the payments reading of the target: a one-syllable common English verb naming a transaction action that no single firm owns, where the applicant is betting that an entire financial-infrastructure industry will put its primary identity on the verb for the thing it does rather than on its own brand.
Same bet as the energy reading: a plain word for one specific energy technology, sold to the installers, equipment makers and network operators built around that technology, and dependent on that technology staying the consumer-facing name for the activity.
A broad sector-category noun whose buyer pool is the same utilities and energy firms the target would court, but it is the umbrella word rather than a verb for a specific act, so the identity it offers is weaker and more diffuse than the target's.
What a .charge domain is
.charge is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Infrastructure. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .charge domain extension real yet?
.charge 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 .charge domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .charge name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .charge was .pay, delegated on 10 August 2016.
Is .charge a real TLD?
Not yet. .charge is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .charge is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- NextGEN TLDs GmbH · first recordedICANN
“GEL2647T-T15541 · Glass Emotion, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-116 NSL2674T-T66583 · NAME SPACE LLC · primary · contention set 2026-116 NTG2671T-T35907 · NextGEN TLDs GmbH · replacement string of .tkns · Deactivated XL2625T-T36661 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .dao · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a common English word with two commercially live meanings: EV and battery charging, and billing or payments. Both are growing sectors and "charge" is a widely used component of company names in them, so there is a real buyer pool and some verb-hack appeal (super.charge, fast.charge, ev.charge). It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with existing dictionary-word sector TLDs such as .energy, .solar and .cash (analogy, not a measured outcome), such strings have tended to be registered as secondaries or redirects while the operating identity stays on .com or a ccTLD; a .charge address on a charging network's signage would still need explaining, and the aftermarket for such strings has been thin. It is not in the 10-29 band because demand is tied to a durable, expanding industry rather than a joke or an event, and a serious charging or payments startup could credibly use it as a primary identity. Operator fact, neutral: one application is on the record, from NextGEN TLDs GmbH, status confirmed, with no contention recorded; how the operator positions and prices the string is unknown. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether EV-charging operators and fintech billing brands adopt .charge as a primary identity at all, or treat it purely as defensive and marketing redirects, which would hold the string in the low 30s.