.ver
Is .ver a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.ver is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Stichting Verifieerbaar Internet.
Short and hints at "verified", but a trust label only works if the registry enforces it; otherwise it is a modest niche address.
identity, verification and trust-service providers wanting a short "verified" address, plus organizations seeking a trust-signal domain; secondarily software projects treating it as a version or release namespace
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 three-letter Spanish verb form floated as an expressive generic, where the whole thesis is that a language community will hang its identity on a bare verb rather than on a product category, and where the string collides with an unrelated English word for everyone else.
Same bet on owning the seeing/viewing word in a Romance language and renting it to anyone in the look-at-this business, differing mainly in that it is a settled common noun where the target is a verb that has to be read as an invitation.
Same bet that a viewing verb becomes the default home for video and streaming operators, but it is pitched at the English market and carries a hard second life as a product category, so the buyer pool and the ambiguity are different in kind.
What a .ver domain is
.ver is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Infrastructure. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .ver domain extension real yet?
.ver 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 .ver domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ver name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ver was .soy, delegated on 19 April 2014.
Is .ver a real TLD?
Not yet. .ver is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .ver is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Stichting Verifieerbaar Internet · first recordedICANN
“TO2640T-T19948 · Stichting Verifieerbaar Internet · primary”ICANN
“BPL2623T-T25726 · Bird Pepper, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-241 NI2568-T34516 · Nirvana Inc · primary · contention set 2026-241 RAI2657T-T94481 · Registered Agents Inc · primary · contention set 2026-241 TO2640T-T19948 · Stichting Verifieerbaar Internet · replacement string of .ver · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is three letters, which by analogy with other short new gTLDs tends to attract some speculative and defensive volume on length alone (analogy). Its meaning, however, is not self-evident in English: 'ver' reads as an abbreviation for 'verified' or 'version', and as the Spanish verb 'to see', so an address on it needs explaining to most buyers. The verified-facts block shows a single standard application by Stichting Verifieerbaar Internet, with a companion .verified application deactivated in favour of .ver as primary; the applicant's name suggests a verification-oriented positioning, which is an inference from the name only. Trust- and security-themed TLDs from the earlier round (for example .trust, .secure-style strings) are, by analogy, a cautionary pattern: a namespace whose value rests on a trust claim has struggled to gain adoption unless browsers, payment providers or regulators recognize the signal, and most did not reach primary-identity use (analogy, no figures). Not the band above (50-69): there is no evidence of sustained demand for a 'verified' namespace as a primary identity, and the semantic hook is too ambiguous to drive organic adoption without heavy policy and marketing work. Not the band below (10-29): it is not a joke or vanity string; it has a plausible utility (verification services, trust marks, software versioning, Spanish-language use) and short strings reliably clear some registration and aftermarket floor over five years (analogy). Main market uncertainty: whether the registry runs .ver as an enforced, identity-verified namespace (meaningful but low-volume) or as an open registration (volume but no trust signal) — the two models imply very different value to the best-fit buyer, and the facts block records neither policy.