.taco
Is .taco a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .taco in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Oinkadot named .taco as the replacement string of its .weed application.
A fun, memorable address for taco shops and food brands, but too narrow to be a serious primary identity for most.
taco restaurants, food trucks and Mexican-food brands wanting a playful memorable web address, plus a thin layer of meme and novelty registrants
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 exactly: a single prepared-dish noun whose registrants are the thousands of small independent eateries that sell that one dish, plus recipe and delivery sites, so it only works if a fragmented local-restaurant trade adopts a category word as its primary address.
Also a single consumable-category noun sold by a dense population of small independent shops and roasters, but the word carries a much broader commerce and lifestyle surface than one dish does, so the buyer pool is wider and less restaurant-specific.
Same shape of bet - one everyday consumable noun aimed at producers, bars and enthusiast content rather than any single owner - though its primary identity-holders are brewers and brands as much as the hospitality venues that define the taco trade.
What a .taco domain is
.taco is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .taco in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .taco domain extension real yet?
.taco 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 .taco domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .taco name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .taco was .pizza, delegated on 27 August 2014.
Is .taco a real TLD?
Not yet. .taco is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .taco as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Oinkadot · first recordedICANN
“OI2692T-T38173 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .weed”ICANN
“CEI2660T-T22085 · Capella Exploration, Inc. · primary OI2692T-T54011 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .dine · Deactivated”ICANN
“A new partnership has applied for 25 top level domain names in this year's ICANN TLD expansion round.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string is a single food item, so its natural buyer pool is restaurants, food trucks, taquerias and a handful of consumer food brands, plus novelty and meme buyers. By analogy (flagged as analogy) with single-food-item TLDs from the earlier round such as .pizza, .beer, .coffee and .wine, these strings tend to attract a modest base of small-business and hobby registrations and some defensive registrations by related brands, with little sign of serious companies choosing them as a primary identity over .com and a thin aftermarket limited to a few generic words. .taco is narrower still than .pizza or .coffee because the item is more regionally concentrated and the business universe is smaller. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no realistic mechanism for volume registrations over the next 5 years (no price-driven mass demand, no brand signal beyond novelty) and the aftermarket would be a handful of generic keywords at best. It is not in the 1-9 band because a real, if small, buyer group exists: taco restaurants and food brands do buy memorable short addresses, and the word is widely recognizable and positive in tone. The applicant on the record is Oinkadot Inc, a standard application filed as a replacement string for .weed; stated neutrally, this only means the operator's go-to-market plan for .taco is unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether the string gets paired with a restaurant-focused channel (website builders, online-ordering platforms) that could lift small-business adoption from novelty to routine, which would push it toward the top of the band rather than out of it.