.identity

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

AI & tech
applicants
  • Registered Agents IncAnnounced
on the record since Sep 1, 2026 · updated Sep 1, 2026
AI score
35/ 100
Usable but limited

A niche TLD for identity and access-management vendors, digital-ID and verifiable-credential projects, and privacy/personal-data services wanting a name that says what they do; secondarily companies wanting a branded login or trust endpoint.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Sep 1, 2026
AI score 35 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

identity and access-management vendors, digital-ID and verifiable-credential projects, and privacy/personal-data services wanting a name that says what they do; secondarily companies wanting a branded login or trust endpoint

techInfrastructureBrand
applicants
1 on file
Registered Agents IncAnnounced
Sep 1, 2026

One of six 2026-round applications Registered Agents Inc announced in its own press release. An identity string from a company whose core business is standing accountably behind legal entities.

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.

.securitystrong parallel
delegated 2015 · live

Same bet: an abstract concept noun that doubles as the name of a trust/assurance industry, sold to vendors in that vertical who want the category word itself, and it only works if the concept-word can be owned as a credential rather than just described.

3 applicants contested it · scored 56* in 2012 · run by Symantec Corporation

.trustmoderate
delegated 2014 · live

Same bet shape — an abstract assurance noun whose value is that registrants borrow credibility from the word, with the same hazard that it carries several unrelated senses (legal instrument, trustworthiness, verification) and no single buyer community owns it.

uncontested · scored 35* in 2012 · run by Deutsche Post AG

.protectionmoderate
delegated 2015 · live

Another abstract safeguarding noun aimed at the security/insurance services buyer, betting that a defensive concept word reads as a functional label on a URL rather than as vague marketing.

uncontested · scored 25* in 2012 · run by Symantec Corporation

* 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. Registered Agents Inc · first recordedSep 1, 2026
    Registered Agents Inc
news & sources
AnnouncementRegistered Agents Inc Is Getting Into the Registry Game
Sep 1, 2026
The company has also applied for six new generic top-level domains through ICANN's 2026 New gTLD Program
Registered Agents Inc
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