.pump
Is .pump a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .pump in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Link Freedom Group named .pump as the backup string of its .cart application.
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 crypto-slang domain memecoin projects may actually use, but its pump-and-dump stigma keeps serious brands away.
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. .pump’s closest 2012 strings hold .watch 22K, .tires 1K and .run 140K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .watch, held 22,022 names, June 2026. .tires held 1,365; .run held 140,139. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet as .pump: an everyday word that is simultaneously a concrete product-category noun and a common action verb, sold as an open generic on the hope that two unrelated constituencies (device/equipment makers and verb-sense users) both put primary identity on it.
The narrow-physical-component bet — one specific piece of hardware gets its own TLD, with manufacturers, distributors and service shops as the identity-holders — which is exactly .pump read as fuel/water/industrial pumps.
A short, high-frequency English verb whose value proposition is brevity and phrase-completion rather than any defined industry, the same speculative footing .pump stands on in its slang/energy sense, but without .pump's hardware-category anchor.
memecoin launchers, token communities, and crypto marketing sites chasing the 'pump' vernacular; secondarily fitness or fuel-station brands as an afterthought
What a .pump domain is
.pump is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Crypto category. Nobody has applied for .pump in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .pump domain extension real yet?
.pump 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 .pump domain?
You can’t yet. A .pump 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 .pump was .watch, delegated on 23 January 2014.
Is .pump a real TLD?
Not yet. .pump is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .pump as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now replacementICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T28734 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .cart”ICANN
“.pump · Manufacturing & Materials · “Moving liquid and gas where it's needed.””Journey To The West Corporation
“.pump · Crypto & Web3 · “Grow your gains.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49). 'Pump' is live, high-energy vocabulary inside crypto: by analogy, the most prominent memecoin launchpad of recent years built its entire brand on the word 'pump' paired with a novelty TLD, which suggests (analogy, not verified data) that crypto-native projects will adopt an exact-match .pump for primary identity during bull cycles. That is real demand, which is why this is not in the 10-29 vanity band: some projects would genuinely register and operate on .pump as their main address, not just as a joke redirect. It is not in the 50-69 strong-niche band because the demand profile is event-driven and reputationally loaded: 'pump' is inseparable from 'pump and dump', a term regulators and mainstream press use for market manipulation, so any project seeking longevity or institutional credibility has a reason to avoid it, and demand likely collapses in bear markets the way analogous crypto-flavored TLDs (by analogy with .finance-adjacent and meme-oriented strings) have seen registration cliffs after hype cycles. Aftermarket value should concentrate in a handful of one-word crypto terms and stay thin elsewhere. Non-crypto uses (fitness, hydraulics, footwear) exist but are unlikely to anchor volume; specific adoption figures are unknown. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed a large portfolio of strings in the 2026 round and lists .pump under 'Crypto & Web3' with the tagline 'Grow your gains.', consistent with a speculative-crypto positioning. Main market uncertainty: whether memecoin-launchpad culture persists at scale through the next 5 years or migrates fully on-chain to wallet-native naming, leaving DNS-side crypto TLDs with little primary-identity use.