.charger
Is .charger a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .charger, 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 label for EV and device charging brands; most such companies will likely keep their main domain, so demand stays shallow.
ev-charging networks, charging-hardware makers, and accessory sellers wanting a keyword domain for product or campaign sites, plus a fringe of automotive-fan registrants
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The link between the grid and the battery.”
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 generic energy-transition hardware noun whose primary-identity buyers are a fragmented mix of equipment makers, installers and network operators riding a policy-driven adoption curve, not a single brand owner.
Same bet shape as a plain vehicle-hardware product noun that manufacturers, retailers and fitters would all claim, differing mainly in that it names a mature commodity rather than an emerging infrastructure category.
Same bet: a specific installed-hardware category noun sold through a long tail of manufacturers, distributors and electrical installers, where the string's value rests on the trade adopting a category label as identity.
What a .charger domain is
.charger is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Infrastructure. Nobody is chasing .charger today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .charger domain extension real yet?
.charger 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 .charger domain?
You can’t yet. A .charger 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 .charger was .solar, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .charger a real TLD?
Not yet. .charger is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .charger 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
“.charger · Energy & Mobility · “The link between the grid and the battery.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string maps to a genuinely growing sector (EV charging) plus consumer electronics, but by analogy with product-noun TLDs like .tires, .autos and .energy, singular-device strings have tended toward low registration volume and marginal primary-identity use — established charging and hardware brands overwhelmingly anchor on their company name under legacy TLDs (analogy). The sector tailwind gives it more than joke value, so it sits at the top of the vanity/narrow band rather than the bottom. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is little sign, by analogy, that volume or price-driven registration would materialize for a device noun, and the brand signal ('charger' reads as an object, not a service) is weak; it is above the 1-9 band because a real, expanding vertical exists that could plausibly yield modest defensive and campaign registrations over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether EV-charging operators come to treat keyword domains as marketing assets at scale, which would lift utility toward the usable-but-limited band.