.visit
Is .visit a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.visit is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Innovation Service, Intercap and Suffix. NextGEN TLDs named .visit as a backup string for its .gamer application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Link Freedom Group named .visit as a backup string for its .join application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Two of the three already run TLDs, 236K names between them. Suffix runs none.
Will names sell?
Fits tourism 'Visit X' branding, but destinations mostly hold that name elsewhere, so it likely stays a redirect and campaign niche.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .visit’s closest 2012 strings hold .fly 4 and .eat 3.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .fly, held 4 names, June 2026. .eat held 3. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
- .tour
Same bet: a short, generic tourism word that works as both verb and noun, whose natural registrants are destinations, attractions and travel operators putting a come-here invitation on their primary identity.
Same bet in the same vertical: a one-word imperative travel verb that only pays off if travel brands are willing to make a call-to-action their address rather than their company name.
Identical structural bet — a bare consumer-action verb standing in for a whole leisure vertical, sold to venues and their marketers — but the vertical is dining rather than travel.
Where they meet elsewhere
Link Freedom Group and Intercap face each other in 31 contests this round, .visit included.
- Link Freedom Group × Intercap
- Link Freedom Group × Suffix
- Link Freedom Group × NextGEN TLDs
- Intercap × Suffix
- Link Freedom Group × Innovation Service
tourism boards, destination marketers, hotels and attractions, plus event and venue promoters wanting a call-to-action address for campaigns and redirects
What a .visit domain is
.visit is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Places category. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .visit domain extension real yet?
.visit 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 .visit domain?
You can’t yet. A .visit name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens.
Is .visit a real TLD?
Not yet. .visit is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .visit is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- NextGEN TLDs · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- 2 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Suffix · now confirmedICANN
- Suffix · now announced
- Suffix · first recordedSuffix Inc.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“IRI2679T-T40552 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-245 ISL2626T-T98626 · Innovation Service Limited · primary · contention set 2026-245 SI2639T-T26609 · Suffix Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-245”ICANN
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IRI2679T-T40552 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-245 ISL2626T-T98626 · Innovation Service Limited · primary · contention set 2026-245 LFGL2683T-T12771 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .join · Deactivated NTG2671T-T46717 · NextGEN TLDs GmbH · replacement string of .gamer · Deactivated SI2639T-T26609 · Suffix Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-245
“Catalog lists: .asap .create .future .lfg .mvp .out .pal .planet .research .share .tag .this .visit”Suffix Inc.
“.visit · Lifestyle · “Arrive where you belong.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string has one genuinely strong semantic hook: the 'Visit X' convention is an established naming pattern in destination marketing worldwide, so place-name.visit reads naturally and could serve tourism campaigns. But that same convention works against primary-identity adoption: destination organizations tend to already brand on visit-plus-place names in legacy namespaces, and by analogy with verb-style and travel-sector TLDs such as .travel, .voyage, .tours and .vacations, which have seen thin serious-brand uptake (analogy, not asserted data), a switch of primary identity to a new suffix is hard to motivate over the next 5 years. It is not in the 50-69 band because sustained primary-identity demand is speculative: the realistic use is campaign microsites and redirects, not the address a tourism board or hotel puts on its signage as its main identity. It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not merely vanity or event-driven; there is a durable, well-funded buyer category (destination marketing) whose existing naming convention matches the string exactly, which is more than most verb TLDs can claim. Applicant context, stated neutrally from verified facts: Link Freedom Group filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and lists this string under category Lifestyle with the tagline 'Arrive where you belong.'; a large-portfolio applicant suggests a broad go-to-market rather than a dedicated tourism-industry push, which tempers expectations for category-specific evangelism. Main market uncertainty: whether destination-marketing organizations, a conservative and committee-driven buyer group, will treat place.visit as a primary digital identity or only as disposable campaign inventory; the score assumes the latter.