.quote
Is .quote a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.quote is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Phoenix Domain Partners. Agamotto named .quote as a backup string for its .wealth application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A commercial keyword suited to insurance and price-quote landing pages, but few businesses would make it their main web address.
lead-gen marketers in insurance, lending, and price-comparison verticals building "get a quote" campaign pages, plus publishers of quotation and sayings content
One of 13 strings Phoenix Domain Partners published as applied-and-paid in the ICANN 2026 round, reported by Domain Name Wire on 2026-08-17.
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .wealth application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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: an open, verb-like commercial-intent word whose whole value is capturing consumers at the price-shopping moment, sold to insurers, lenders and comparison/lead-gen operators rather than to anyone putting a corporate identity on it.
Same bet one step downstream: a generic transactional word owned by the insurance-quote funnel, bought by carriers, brokers and lead aggregators for keyword landing pages, with the same registry economics of selling intent traffic rather than brand homes.
Same structural bet as a short, cross-vertical price-negotiation term that any seller or marketplace can bolt onto a transaction page, though its buyer skews auction and procurement rather than the insurance/services quoting where .quote's demand concentrates.
What a .quote domain is
.quote 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 .quote domain extension real yet?
.quote 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 .quote domain?
You can’t yet. A .quote 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 .quote was .compare, delegated on 15 January 2016.
Is .quote a real TLD?
Not yet. .quote is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .quote is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Agamotto · first recordedICANN
- Phoenix Domain Partners · now confirmedICANN
- Phoenix Domain Partners · first recordedDomain Name Wire
“AL2569-T37298 · Agamotto Ltd · replacement string of .wealth · Deactivated MLG2688T-T91223 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · primary”ICANN
“MLG2688T-T91223 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · primary”ICANN
“Phoenix Domain Partners published 13 strings for which it says it has applied and paid the application fees.”Domain Name Wire
- The string carries genuine commercial intent — quote-request funnels in insurance and finance are a well-established lead-gen pattern — and it reads naturally right of the dot (car.quote, life.quote). By analogy, though, adjacent commercial-keyword gTLDs like .insure, .loans, and .deals have seen weak primary-identity adoption and thin aftermarkets despite similar semantic fit; campaign microsites and defensive registrations dominate, not brands. The secondary sense (quotations/sayings) adds hobbyist and content-site demand but little resale value. Band 30-49 (usable but limited): it is above 10-29 because real commercial funnels plausibly use it beyond vanity, but below 50-69 because there is no category where it looks set to become a primary-identity default within 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether insurance and comparison-site marketers actually adopt it at volume for campaign landing pages or ignore it as they largely have analogous keyword TLDs (analogy).