.invest
Is .invest a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.invest is contested: 2 applicants have said publicly that they applied to run it, as of 27 August 2026. They are Radix and Link Freedom Group.
A clear money word that fintech and crypto projects will register, but serious finance brands are unlikely to make it their main address.
fintech startups, crypto and web3 projects, retail-investing apps, financial newsletters and educators wanting a keyword-exact address; secondarily domain investors speculating on finance keywords
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Where hope meets opportunity.”
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.
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 generic financial-activity word in noun form, betting that advisors, funds and brokerages will move primary identity onto a category string whose meaning is self-evident and whose buyer base is regulated money-handlers willing to pay premium renewals.
A retail-finance activity word doing the identical job: an open, unbranded category label whose value depends on brokers and platforms treating the string itself as the credential rather than a marketing suffix.
Same bet on a generic finance-vertical noun with a professional buyer, but it names the venue rather than the act, so it skews toward institutional/media identity instead of the advice-and-capital-raising audience .invest targets.
What a .invest domain is
.invest is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. 2 applicants have said publicly that they applied for .invest.
Is the .invest domain extension real yet?
.invest 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 .invest domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .invest name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .invest was .investments, delegated on .
Is .invest a real TLD?
Not yet. .invest is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .invest in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedRadix
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
“.invest · Crypto & Web3 · “Where hope meets opportunity.””Link Freedom Group
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a short, high-commercial-intent English verb, which by analogy with existing finance-flavored TLDs (.investments, .finance, .capital, .fund) suggests steady keyword-driven registrations and some premium-tier pricing; those analogs, however, have not become primary-identity defaults, since regulated and trust-sensitive financial firms overwhelmingly anchor on legacy namespaces, and finance strings carry an elevated scam and phishing association that further dampens trust signaling. That analogy-based ceiling on primary-identity use is why it does not reach the 50-69 strong-niche band, where genuine sustained primary-identity adoption is required. It sits above the 10-29 vanity band because demand here is not event-driven or joke-driven: the word maps directly to a large, durable commercial category, and a shorter sibling of .investments plausibly outperforms it on memorability. The applicant's own positioning of the string as Crypto & Web3 suggests a distribution push toward crypto-native buyers, a segment more willing than regulated finance to adopt new TLDs as primary identity over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether trust-sensitive users will transact on an .invest address at all, or whether abuse-driven reputation (spam filters, browser warnings, compliance blocklists) suppresses serious use regardless of registration volume.