.vintage
Is .vintage a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.vintage is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital.
A pleasant descriptor for vintage shops, wine and collectibles, but most sellers will stay on marketplaces or .com, so demand stays modest.
small vintage-goods sellers (clothing, furniture, watches, cars, wine) and collector communities wanting a descriptive, brand-style web address
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.
Both are taste-tier adjectives rather than industry nouns — a modifier a seller of any goods category adopts to signal a quality of object, so the registry's buyer is the curated-merchandise merchant, not a trade.
Same bet on the small independent curated shop putting its whole storefront identity on a word that connotes selection and taste, differing only in that it names the shop format while the target names the merchandise's character.
An open generic aesthetic word with no industry fence, so it depends on the same thing: that lifestyle and apparel sellers will pay for an adjective of taste instead of a descriptive category term they rank for.
What a .vintage domain is
.vintage is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .vintage domain extension real yet?
.vintage 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 .vintage domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .vintage name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .vintage was .luxe, delegated on 15 May 2014.
Is .vintage a real TLD?
Not yet. .vintage is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .vintage is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
“ASL2693T-T29242 · Agador Slip, LLC · replacement string of .vintage ASL2693T-T32133 · Agador Slip, LLC · replacement string of .engine”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The word 'vintage' is a genuine, durable commercial descriptor spanning secondhand fashion, furniture, watches, cars, guitars and wine, and it reads naturally as a suffix (a shop name plus .vintage), so some small sellers and collector projects would plausibly use it as a primary identity over the next five years. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with other descriptor TLDs in the Identity Digital portfolio such as .boutique, .fashion and .style (analogy, figures unknown), adjective strings of this kind have tended to attract low registration volumes, weak renewal behaviour and almost no aftermarket; adoption would need explaining and the sector's sellers mostly trade through marketplaces rather than standalone sites (inference from analogy). It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not event-driven or joke-like: the vintage-goods trade is a continuous, global, brand-conscious market where a descriptive address has real end-use value, and the string carries a positive connotation rather than a narrow or gimmicky one. Main market uncertainty: whether vintage resellers, who largely rely on marketplace storefronts (analogy), want independent domains at all, and whether the registry prices the string in a low or a premium tier, which would shape volume versus brand positioning. Applicant fact, stated neutrally from the record: one confirmed standard application by Identity Digital, with no contention recorded, which suggests a conventional open-registration launch pattern.