.fintech

Is .fintech a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?

AI & tech
applicants
  • RadixAnnounced
on the record since Aug 27, 2026 · updated Aug 27, 2026
AI score
46/ 100
Usable but limited

A well-known industry word, but finance companies lean on trusted classic domains, so this reads as a niche, secondary address.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 27, 2026
AI score 46 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

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

techCommerceCryptoBrand
applicants
1 on file
RadixAnnounced
Aug 27, 2026

One of 46 ICANN 2026-round applications Radix announced on its own applications page. Radix states it intends to build and operate each TLD it wins.

closest 2012 bets
3 of 1,408

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.

.ecomstrong parallel
never delegated

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.

uncontested · scored 35* in 2012

.financestrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live

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.

uncontested · scored 70* in 2012 · run by Cotton Cypress, LLC

.insurancemoderate
delegated 2015 · live

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.

4 applicants contested it · scored 68* in 2012 · run by fTLD Registry Services LLC

* A separate 2012-only read, time-locked to what was public that year. Different scale from this page’s score — the two are not comparable.

history
  1. Radix · first recordedAug 27, 2026
    Radix
news & sources
AnnouncementRadix: our ICANN 2026 round applications
Aug 27, 2026
Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.
Radix
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