.trip
Is .trip a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.trip is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Identity Digital, GoDaddy Registry and Intercap. XYZ named .trip as a backup string for its .invest application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Squarespace named .trip as a backup string for its .planner application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A short travel word that reads well, but travel brands have mostly stayed on .com, so expect modest use and a thin resale market.
travel startups, tour and trip-planning apps, itinerary and travel-content creators, plus some playful consumer brands using "trip" in its non-travel senses
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .planner application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .invest 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.
A single generic travel noun with no owner, sold open to anyone in the journey business — the identical bet that a short everyday word for "a trip" can become the primary address of travel sellers rather than a descriptor they already own on .com.
Same shape of bet: a one-word consumer travel generic whose buyers are operators, agents and destinations putting their own brand in front of the dot, with success resting on travellers reading the right-hand side as the category itself.
Also an unowned English leisure-travel generic aimed at the same operator/agency buyer, but it is plural and narrows to holiday-making, where the target covers business and one-off journeys too.
What a .trip domain is
.trip is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .trip domain extension real yet?
.trip 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 .trip domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .trip name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .trip was .voyage, delegated on 6 November 2013.
Is .trip a real TLD?
Not yet. .trip is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .trip is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“IRI2679T-T98876 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-235 NA2631T-T96614 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-235 SRL2616T-T98122 · Squarespace Registry LLC · replacement string of .planner · Deactivated VC2665T-T64313 · Vanity Check, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-235 XL2625T-T77143 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .invest · Deactivated”ICANN
“IRI2679T-T98876 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-235 NA2631T-T96614 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-235 VC2665T-T64313 · Vanity Check, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-235”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a short, common, globally understood English word tied to a large industry (travel), and it carries secondary senses (a 'trip' as an experience, 'tripping' in slang) that give it some consumer-brand and culture appeal. The verified record shows three standard applications in one ICANN contention set (2026-235) from Intercap, GoDaddy Registry and Identity Digital, with two further applications deactivated; that level of industry interest supports the view that registries see a real vertical here, which argues against the 10-29 band. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy (flagged as analogy), the travel vertical has an existing dedicated TLD, .travel, plus a cluster of narrower travel-themed new gTLDs (e.g. .tours, .flights, .vacations, .holiday), and none of these appears to have become a primary-identity default for serious travel companies; the sector's established brands have largely remained on .com, and travel-vertical aftermarkets have been thin. .trip is arguably a better string than any of those (shorter, more conversational, broader), so it should outperform them, but a better string in a vertical that has repeatedly declined to adopt vertical TLDs is still a limited market. Expect registrations driven by promotional pricing and side projects, a handful of genuine primary identities among travel startups and creators, and weak brand signal in the aftermarket. Main market uncertainty: whether a new wave of travel-tech and creator-led travel brands treats a vertical TLD differently from how the incumbent travel industry treated .travel; if they do, .trip could reach the low 50s. A secondary uncertainty is whether the eventual operator's pricing (premium tiers vs. mass-market) steers it toward volume or toward a small, pricier namespace; this record does not say.