.wallet
Is .wallet a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.wallet is contested: 4 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Identity Digital, GoDaddy Registry, Intercap and Radix.
A clear, catchy name for crypto and payment apps, but most serious wallet brands will likely still choose .com or .app as their main address.
Who is applying, and how much each already runs
Four of the 4 are tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Identity Digital, GoDaddy Registry and Intercap filed 364 applications between them across the round.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .pay, held 750 names, May 2026. .cash held 20,872; .creditcard held 1,558. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: an ordinary consumer-payments word claimed as the category home for fintech and payment-service operators, where the value depends entirely on the whole payments industry agreeing to brand under one generic rather than on any single incumbent's app.
Also a plain everyday money noun sold as a broad consumer-finance category, but it names the medium of value rather than the product container users install and put their identity on, so the buyer set is fuzzier and more defensive.
The nearest 2012 case of a physical money-object noun repurposed as a digital financial product category, though it skews toward issuers and comparison/lead-gen sites rather than the operator-of-the-thing buyer that a wallet string needs.
crypto wallet startups, fintech and payments products, and exchanges wanting a self-describing address for a wallet feature or spin-off; secondarily domain investors betting on crypto-cycle demand
What a .wallet domain is
.wallet is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Crypto category. 4 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .wallet domain extension real yet?
.wallet 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 .wallet domain?
You can’t yet. A .wallet name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .wallet was .pay, delegated on 10 August 2016.
Is .wallet a real TLD?
Not yet. .wallet is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .wallet is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
The source’s 4 linesHide the lines
IRI2679T-T48471 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-248 NA2631T-T72861 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-248 RTIS2674T-T15545 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-248 VSL2633T-T85179 · Vinyl Strings, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-248
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- I place .wallet at the top of the 30-49 'usable but limited' band. The string is semantically precise and instantly legible for one product type: wallet software in crypto and fintech. That precision cuts both ways. By analogy with other product-word TLDs in the money space (.finance, .cash, .exchange and similar), such strings tend to see real but modest registration volume, adoption concentrated in crypto-native projects, and a thin aftermarket outside speculative cycles — an analogy, not a measured claim. It is not in the 50-69 'strong niche' band because the set of projects for which brand.wallet is a credible primary identity is narrow (essentially wallet products themselves), mainstream fintechs face phishing and trust sensitivities around payment-adjacent strings that push them toward established endings, and adoption would still need explaining outside crypto circles. It is above the 10-29 vanity band because demand is not merely event-driven: wallets are a durable, growing product category over the next 5 years, the word maps exactly to what buyers build, and the applicant Radix is a portfolio registry that states it intends to operate what it wins, which supports competent distribution (stated neutrally from the record). My main market uncertainty: whether crypto-native builders adopt product-type DNS endings as primary identities at meaningful scale, and whether any non-DNS naming systems using a similar string fragment or confuse that demand — the extent of such overlap is unknown.