.passport
Is .passport a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .passport in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Sainz Rio Ventures.com named .passport as the replacement string of its .pos application.
A memorable word for travel, loyalty and digital-ID products, but too long and too narrow to be a serious home address for most projects.
membership, loyalty and digital-identity products that use "passport" as a product metaphor, plus travel-services brands wanting a themed address
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 .passport: a generic noun for a mass-held credential that institutions rather than the registry actually issue, so it can only be sold to aggregators, comparison sites and metaphor users, never to the issuers whose authority gives the word its weight.
Nearest word-type sibling, a travel-authorisation document noun whose everyday meaning is state-issued, but the 2012 bet behind it was one corporation claiming a dictionary word, a different buyer from an open identity/access registry.
Also an access-document noun that works as a credential metaphor, but it has a real commercial registrant base (sellers and resellers) willing to put their primary identity on it, which a government-issued-document word does not.
What a .passport domain is
.passport is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .passport in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .passport domain extension real yet?
.passport 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 .passport domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .passport name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .passport was .creditcard, delegated on 29 April 2014.
Is .passport a real TLD?
Not yet. .passport is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .passport as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Sainz Rio Ventures.com · first recordedICANN
“RV2695T-T26363 · Sainz Rio Ventures.com · replacement string of .pos”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is an evocative single word with a real metaphor market: city and brewery 'passport' loyalty programs, event access passes, pet and vaccination passports, and digital-identity or verifiable-credential products that borrow the word. That gives it genuine but shallow demand — a project can plausibly launch as something like city.passport or dev.passport, and some travel and credential brands will register defensively. It is not in the 30-49 band because the string is eight characters, has no natural volume driver, and the official passport-issuing institutions that own the word's strongest meaning are unlikely to move primary identity onto a privately operated generic TLD, so registrations at volume would depend on deep discounting rather than organic pull; by analogy (flagged as analogy), long single-word generics tied to a specific object or document have tended to settle into small, thematic namespaces with thin aftermarkets. It is not in the 1-9 band because the metaphor use is real and recurring across membership, travel and identity products, and the word carries positive connotations of access and legitimacy that a themed brand can use. On the record the string arrives as a standard application that is a replacement string for a .pos application by Sainz Rio Ventures.com; application counts and contention are unknown beyond that, and nothing on the record indicates a restricted or community model, so I assume an open generic. The score of 24 sits mid-band: better than a pure joke string, below anything with a category-standard path. Main market uncertainty: whether 'passport'-named identity and product-traceability schemes become a mainstream product category over the next 5 years, which would turn the metaphor demand into a recurring commercial one.