.seal
Is .seal a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .seal, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A clever word for authenticity, but few serious projects would make .seal their main address; demand looks thin and novelty-driven.
certification, notary, and attestation services wanting an authenticity-themed address, plus occasional wordplay brands and wildlife or marine-themed projects
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The stamped mark of authenticity and identity.”
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 .seal: an abstract assurance noun sold not as a category address but as a portable badge, where the registry's value depends entirely on standing up a vetting regime credible enough that the string reads as a third-party credential rather than a word anyone can buy.
Same shape of bet - a reassurance word whose buyer is an existing business bolting it onto a verification or checkout surface as a signal, not a company putting its primary identity on it, though it promises a technical property rather than an issued mark of approval.
Another claim-word bet that a generic reassurance term can be converted into a certification mark, carrying the same core risk that a self-purchased string proves nothing unless the registry polices who may hold it.
What a .seal domain is
.seal is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. Nobody is chasing .seal today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .seal domain extension real yet?
.seal 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 .seal domain?
You can’t yet. A .seal 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 .seal was .trust, delegated on 6 December 2014.
Is .seal a real TLD?
Not yet. .seal is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .seal and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.seal · Craft & Art · “The stamped mark of authenticity and identity.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place .seal in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band, around 18. The string has a real semantic hook — the seal as a stamp of authenticity — which is why it is not in the 1-9 no-market band: certification, notary, and verification services could plausibly register it, and the animal/wordplay angle adds a trickle of hobby and brand demand. It stays below the 30-49 band because, by analogy with trust-themed gTLDs such as .trust and .expert (flagged as analogy — I assert no figures), authenticity-flavored strings have historically struggled to convert their theme into volume registrations or genuine primary-identity use; trust on the web is conferred by issuers and platforms, not by a domain ending, so the TLD itself adds little credibility. The applicant is a large-portfolio filer (323 submitted strings per the verified facts), which I read neutrally as a catalog-style application rather than a committed vertical push, tempering expectations of registry-driven adoption. My main market uncertainty: whether any verification or attestation ecosystem adopts .seal as a namespace convention within 5 years, which would move it toward the usable-but-limited band.