.visit
Is .visit a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.visit is contested: 2 applicants have said publicly that they applied to run it, as of 16 August 2026. They are Suffix Inc. and Link Freedom Group.
Fits tourism 'Visit X' branding, but destinations mostly hold that name elsewhere, so it likely stays a redirect and campaign niche.
tourism boards, destination marketers, hotels and attractions, plus event and venue promoters wanting a call-to-action address for campaigns and redirects
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Arrive where you belong.”
Listed in Suffix Inc.'s public catalog at suffix.domains. No first-party application statement is on the record yet; every string in the catalog overlaps Link Freedom Group's published list.
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 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.
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, filed under Places. 2 applicants have said publicly that they applied for .visit.
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. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .visit name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated 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 an applicant said publicly that it applied for .visit in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Suffix Inc. · now announced
- Suffix Inc. · first recordedSuffix Inc.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“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
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- 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.