.syndicate
Is .syndicate a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .syndicate in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .syndicate as the replacement string of its .invest application.
A memorable word for investment and media groups, but too narrow and too loaded to become a go-to web address.
angel and investment syndicate organizers, content-syndication platforms, and gaming or community groups that already call themselves a syndicate
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 bare English collective noun naming an organizational form rather than a field, sold as primary identity to any set of people who band together under one banner, and dependent on that form-word reading as more credible than the entity's own brand.
Also a multi-member-form noun that a firm puts its whole identity on, but it is tied to the established professional-partnership vocabulary rather than to an ad-hoc pool assembled around a single venture.
Targets the same buyer from the other side — capital-pooling vehicles and deal-makers naming the vehicle, not the sector — and needs the same thing to be true, that investment outfits will brand on the structure they use.
What a .syndicate domain is
.syndicate is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .syndicate in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .syndicate domain extension real yet?
.syndicate 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 .syndicate domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .syndicate name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .syndicate was .group, delegated on 8 August 2015.
Is .syndicate a real TLD?
Not yet. .syndicate is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .syndicate as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T34524 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .invest”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T90578 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-213 PTL2645T-T73740 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-213 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .robotics · Deactivated VIL2659T-T55269 · Verse International Limited · replacement string of .did · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its upper edge. The string has real but narrow meaning clusters: investment syndicates (angel and deal syndicates), loan syndication, content and media syndication, lottery pools, gaming clans, and a persistent criminal connotation that limits mainstream brand appeal. The record shows the applicant filed it as a replacement string for .invest, which signals a finance positioning; actual registration policy and pricing are unknown. By analogy (flagged as analogy), finance-adjacent descriptive strings such as .ventures, .capital, .fund and .partners found modest niche adoption with thin aftermarkets, and .syndicate is longer, less neutral, and more specific than any of those, so I expect weaker uptake than that peer group. Most investment syndicates are branded under the lead investor's or platform's name and rarely need a standalone identity, which caps primary-identity use. It is not in 30-49 because I do not expect volume or price-driven registrations: the word is too specific for defensive or speculative buying at scale. It is not in 1-9 because an identifiable buyer segment exists and a small number of groups would plausibly adopt it as a memorable, self-descriptive identity. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator markets it as a finance string with restrictions or premium tiers, or as an open generic, which would change who registers and whether any aftermarket forms.