.vid
Is .vid a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.vid is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Intercap. Identity Digital named .vid as a backup string for its .btc application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A short, casual word for video that creators may pick up on price, but .tv and .video already hold that ground.
video creators, short-form clip tools and streaming side-projects who want a short, informal video address
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .btc 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.
Identical bet — an open generic media-type noun sold to anyone whose primary identity is making or hosting moving pictures, where .vid is only the clipped spelling of the same word and the same buyer pool.
Same bet of a three-letter clipped/file-extension-style label for moving-image content, trading on instant recognition by creators and platforms rather than on dictionary completeness.
The sibling-medium version of the same bet: a bare content-format generic that only works if an entire production-and-distribution trade chooses to brand on its medium instead of its company or genre.
What a .vid domain is
.vid is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .vid domain extension real yet?
.vid 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 .vid domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .vid name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .vid was .video, delegated on 25 December 2014.
Is .vid a real TLD?
Not yet. .vid is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .vid is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited, at its low end. The string is a widely understood three-letter clipping of 'video', so it is immediately legible and short, which gives it genuine utility for creator pages, clip-sharing tools and streaming experiments. By analogy, the video category already has an established address in the repurposed country code commonly used by streaming brands and a dictionary-word new gTLD for the same meaning; the dictionary-word one has, by analogy, settled into modest, price-driven volume rather than primary-identity use, and a second, slangier variant would likely land below it. That keeps .vid out of the 50-69 band: there is no sign a serious video company would choose it as a primary identity when the longer and the two-letter incumbents exist, so adoption would need explaining and the aftermarket would be thin. It stays above the 10-29 band because 'vid' is an everyday word with steady product and creator usage, so demand is not event-driven or joke-only; a registry pricing it as a low-cost creator address could sustain registrations at volume. Applicant facts, stated neutrally: Intercap Registry Inc. holds a confirmed standard application; a second standard application by Mystic Hammer, LLC (Identity Digital) is deactivated and named .btc as its primary string; an Intercap application for .air that named .vid as primary is also deactivated. Contention count on the record is 1, which affects lifecycle only and is not scored here. Main market uncertainty: whether short-form video creators, who mostly live on platform handles rather than domains, would adopt any video TLD as a primary identity in the next five years; registration counts for the existing video-meaning TLDs are unknown to me within the rules, so the analogy is unquantified.