.intangible
Is .intangible a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .intangible, 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 long, abstract word with no obvious buyer group; a curiosity for heritage or IP-asset projects, not a serious primary identity.
cultural-heritage organizations and archives working on intangible cultural heritage, plus IP-valuation and intangible-asset finance firms wanting a thematic address
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Culture that can't be held, only carried forward.”
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 .intangible: an abstract English word that doubles as a finance/legal term of art, so the registry is selling a professional concept rather than a category anyone belongs to, and it only pays off if a credentialed niche adopts the word as its primary identity.
Same bet: a connotation word with no self-identifying registrant population, so the registry must manufacture the use case out of the word's aura instead of harvesting an existing group that already calls itself that.
Shares the structural problem of a pure abstract modifier sold as a namespace where demand rests on marketers liking the word rather than on any defined buyer putting primary identity on it, but it targets consumer superlative appeal rather than a professional term of art.
What a .intangible domain is
.intangible is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody is chasing .intangible today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .intangible domain extension real yet?
.intangible 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 .intangible domain?
You can’t yet. A .intangible 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 .intangible was .trust, delegated on 6 December 2014.
Is .intangible a real TLD?
Not yet. .intangible is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .intangible 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
“.intangible · Brand & Heritage · “Culture that can't be held, only carried forward.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string is a 10-character abstract adjective with two plausible but thin constituencies: intangible cultural heritage (a recognized cultural-sector term) and intangible assets in IP/finance. By analogy (flagged as such), long abstract-word gTLDs of prior rounds — the .exposed / .fail / .luxe class — saw low registration volumes, negligible aftermarkets, and almost no primary-identity use, and .intangible is longer and less action-oriented than those. Neither constituency habitually brands on novelty TLDs, and the word functions as a modifier rather than a category label, so demand over the next 5 years looks event-driven and shallow. I place it in the 10-29 band, low end: it clears the 1-9 floor because the heritage and IP niches are real and could produce some deliberate registrations, but it misses 30-49 because there is no visible path to volume or price-driven registration, and no brand signal a serious project would pay for. Main market uncertainty: whether cultural institutions or the IP-asset sector would adopt a shared namespace as a credibility signal at all — meaningful institutional uptake would move it up a band.