.stripe
Is .stripe a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.stripe is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Stripe, LLC.
A closed brand namespace: only Stripe can use it, so it has no open market and no resale value, just private branding utility.
the applicant brand itself, for its own product, developer and campaign addresses; there is no outside buyer
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: a merchant-facing payments processor putting its primary corporate identity on its own invented brand word, selling to businesses that integrate it rather than to consumers who carry it.
Same bet: a payments-platform company's own coined brand as its dot-brand, where the string's value rests entirely on the company's installed base of merchants and transaction volume, not on any meaning in the word.
Also an everyday dictionary word owned as a payments brand — so it carries the same generic-word collision risk Stripe does — but the bet is a consumer-held network mark rather than a developer-integrated processor.
What a .stripe domain is
.stripe is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .stripe domain extension real yet?
.stripe 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 .stripe domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .stripe name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .stripe a real TLD?
Not yet. .stripe is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .stripe is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Stripe, LLC · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified facts show a single application of ICANN type "brand" by Stripe, LLC, which means the string is a closed dot-brand: addresses are not available to third parties, so there is no registration volume, no price-driven demand and no aftermarket, which rules out the 30-49 band (that band assumes registrations happen at some volume). It sits above the 1-9 band because a dot-brand does have a realistic, if private, use: a widely used payments and developer platform could plausibly route product, documentation or security-sensitive links under its own namespace, and brand-controlled strings carry some anti-phishing and trust value for a company whose customers regularly handle payment credentials. By analogy (flagged as analogy), earlier-round dot-brands applied for by large technology companies have shown a wide spread of outcomes: some were put to light but visible use for redirects and campaigns, many were left largely dormant, and a notable share were later withdrawn or terminated by their holders; the typical pattern has been modest, not primary-identity, use. The counts, dates and names of those cases are unknown here and are not asserted. Main market uncertainty: whether Stripe would adopt the string as a primary developer or dashboard identity (which would push this toward the upper part of the band) or treat it as a defensive, mostly dormant asset (lower part of the band); nothing in the verified facts indicates either intent.