.pos
Is .pos a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.pos is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Sainz Rio Ventures.com. Link Freedom Group named .pos as a backup string for its .pow application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
None of the 2 is tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Link Freedom Group filed 158 applications across the round.
Will names sell?
A niche label for point-of-sale and payments tech; useful to some vendors, but a rude English slang meaning limits serious branding.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .pos’s closest 2012 strings hold .ott 4 and .cfd 688K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .ott, held 4 names, June 2026. .cfd held 688,049. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Both are industry-insider technology-category acronyms rather than consumer words, betting that a vertical of B2B vendors and integrators will adopt their trade's own shorthand as primary identity.
- .ecom
Same bet on a commerce-infrastructure category label bought by merchant-facing software and service vendors, though it is a clipped generic rather than an acronym.
Another three-letter product-category acronym whose value rests entirely on one vertical's providers treating the abbreviation as self-evident, with near-zero meaning outside it.
point-of-sale software and hardware vendors, payments and retail-tech companies wanting a vertical-signal domain for products, integrations, or developer surfaces rather than a flagship brand
What a .pos domain is
.pos is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .pos domain extension real yet?
.pos 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 .pos domain?
You can’t yet. A .pos 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 .pos was .ott, delegated on 27 May 2016.
Is .pos a real TLD?
Not yet. .pos is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .pos is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- Sainz Rio Ventures.com · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T38036 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .pow · Deactivated RV2695T-T26363 · Sainz Rio Ventures.com · primary”ICANN
“.pos · Commerce · “Where the wallet gets lighter.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its floor. 'POS' is a genuinely recognized industry acronym (point of sale), so there is an identifiable vertical of retail-tech and payments vendors who could register names at volume for products, docs, or campaign use; that real, nameable buyer group keeps it out of the vanity/joke band below. It stays out of the strong-niche band above because two forces cap primary-identity use over the next 5 years: the buyer base is B2B payments/retail tech, a segment that by analogy with other vertical acronym TLDs tends to keep its flagship identity on .com and treat new extensions as secondary, and the string doubles as widely understood derogatory English slang, which actively undercuts the credibility a TLD is supposed to add. By analogy, professional-acronym TLDs have generally seen modest, explanation-required adoption rather than category-default status, and commerce-adjacent strings tend to sell on price at the low end. Verified facts: the applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and lists this one under 'Commerce' with the tagline 'Where the wallet gets lighter.'; a large-portfolio applicant profile is consistent with broad speculative coverage rather than a dedicated vertical registry push, which I read as neutral-to-mildly-negative for concentrated category marketing. Registration volumes, pricing, and any anchor adopters are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether payments and retail-tech vendors adopt vertical TLDs for product or developer identities at all, or treat .pos purely as defensive/redirect inventory.