.fintech
Is .fintech a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.fintech is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Radix.
A well-known industry word, but finance companies lean on trusted classic domains, so this reads as a niche, secondary address.
Who is applying, and how much each already runs
Radix filed 46 applications across the round.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .finance, held 36,535 names, May 2026. .insurance held 676. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet in a different vertical: an insider shorthand for a tech-enabled commercial sector rather than a dictionary category word, sold to companies whose identity is "we are a firm operating in this sector," and it only works if the jargon term stays the industry's own self-description.
Same buyer pool and same job -- a money-sector category noun that operating financial businesses put their primary identity on -- differing mainly in being the plain-English parent category rather than the newer sub-sector coinage.
Also a regulated financial-services sector generic whose registrants would be operating firms rather than fans or content sites, but it names an old consolidated industry of incumbents already sitting on their .com, whereas the target bets on a young cohort still choosing a first identity.
fintech startups, industry newsletters and media, conference and community organizers, and developer-tool or API vendors who want a self-describing address rather than a short brandable name
What a .fintech domain is
.fintech is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .fintech domain extension real yet?
.fintech 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 .fintech domain?
You can’t yet. A .fintech name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens.
Is .fintech a real TLD?
Not yet. .fintech is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .fintech is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- I place .fintech in the 30-49 band (usable but limited), near its top. The string is a globally recognized industry descriptor with genuine commercial relevance, which keeps it out of the 10-29 vanity band: real companies, media outlets, and events describe themselves with this exact word, and a portfolio registry applicant with established retail channels (per the verified facts) plausibly gets it distributed widely. It does not reach the 50-69 strong-niche band because primary-identity use is the weak link: finance is a trust-sensitive category where serious ventures tend, by analogy with observed behavior of funded startups, to anchor on established endings, and by analogy finance-themed descriptive TLDs from the 2012 round have generally seen registration volume without becoming primary-identity defaults or developing deep aftermarkets. Exact registration or resale figures for those analogs are unknown to me under the rules here, so this is reasoned qualitatively. The word is also long relative to what fintech brands typically choose, which further dampens brand-signal value. My main market uncertainty is whether trust-sensitive financial buyers and their regulators or partners will accept a descriptive new TLD as a credible primary identity within 5 years, versus treating it as a redirect or campaign address; a visible cohort of funded fintechs adopting it as their main domain would push this into the band above.