.lend
Is .lend a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.lend is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 8 October 2026. It is Intercap. Intercap named .lend as the replacement string of its .hub application.
A clear lending/fintech label, but lenders trust .com for credibility, so .lend stays a secondary, campaign-style address.
fintech and consumer-lending startups, DeFi lending protocols, and lead-generation sites that want a short verb-style address for loan products
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 in noun form: a bare, generic, licensed-money-lending word whose primary-identity buyer is a lender or loan marketplace, and which only works if regulated credit providers will re-root their brand on a category word rather than keep their own name.
The plural of the identical bet — a generic lending-category string whose natural registrant is a comparison/aggregation site or broker selling many lenders' products, betting that commodity keyword traffic in a high-CPC money vertical converts.
Also a generic lending-product noun aimed at the same regulated lender/broker buyer, but it names one narrow loan type rather than the whole act of lending, so the addressable registrant pool is a subset of .lend's.
What a .lend domain is
.lend is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .lend domain extension real yet?
.lend 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 .lend domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .lend name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .lend was .loan, delegated on 25 March 2015.
Is .lend a real TLD?
Not yet. .lend is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .lend is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“IRI2679T-T67954 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .hub IRI2679T-T76893 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary”ICANN
“IRI2679T-T67954 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .hub IRI2679T-T76893 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a plain English verb with an obvious meaning in consumer and business credit, peer-to-peer lending, and DeFi lending protocols, so there is a real buyer group and registrations should occur at modest volume over the next 5 years. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy (flagged as analogy), the finance-adjacent 2012-round strings such as .loan, .loans, .credit, .finance and .money produced little genuine primary-identity use: regulated lenders mostly kept .com for trust, and the volume that did appear in the cheapest of those strings was price-driven and largely churned, with a thin aftermarket. A verb-form string like .lend also reads as a call to action rather than a brand, which suits campaign or product landing pages more than a company's main identity. It is not in the 10-29 band because lending is a large, durable, high-margin category with constant marketing spend and a crypto-native sub-segment (DeFi lending) that is more willing than banks to adopt unconventional namespaces, so demand is not merely novelty or event-driven. Applicant facts, stated neutrally from the record: one standard application from Intercap Registry Inc., confirmed, no contention recorded; a separate Intercap application for .lesson that named .lend as its primary is recorded as deactivated. An uncontested standard application points to a conventional open commercial launch rather than a brand or community restriction, which supports general availability but says nothing about pricing. Main market uncertainty: whether the registry prices .lend as a premium, curated finance namespace (small but credible footprint, some aftermarket) or as a low-cost volume string (larger counts, heavy abuse and churn, weaker brand signal); either path keeps it inside the 30-49 band but moves it within it. Specific registration counts, prices and renewal figures for the analog TLDs are unknown here and are not asserted.