.waymo
Is .waymo a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.waymo is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Google.
A closed company-name namespace: useful to the brand that applied for it, but nobody else can buy an address on it.
the applicant brand itself and its product, service and regional teams, which would use addresses on it for official sites, apps and trust-signalling links rather than selling them
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 parent company carves out a unit and gives it a freshly coined, meaning-free word as its entire primary corporate identity, so the TLD has to carry recognition the string does not yet have on its own.
Also a coined, invented corporate name created for a spun-out subsidiary of a large parent, where the registry is a single-company identity play rather than a category or product claim.
A coined name for an advanced-technology subsidiary operating under a holding group — the same structural bet as Waymo under Alphabet — though its audience is institutional buyers rather than a consumer-facing service.
What a .waymo domain is
.waymo is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .waymo domain extension real yet?
.waymo 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 .waymo domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .waymo name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .waymo was .abbvie, delegated on 6 April 2016.
Is .waymo a real TLD?
Not yet. .waymo is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .waymo is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Google · first recordedICANN
“CRRI2564-T51612 · Charleston Road Registry Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified-facts block records a single confirmed application of ICANN application type brand by Google (legal name Charleston Road Registry Inc.), with no contention, so this is assessed as a closed dot-brand namespace tied to one company name. The string carries meaning only as that company's name; it has no generic or category sense that a third-party project would adopt as a primary identity. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations do not happen at volume or on price at all: a brand TLD of this type is not sold to the public, so there is no registration market and no aftermarket to be thin. It is not in the 1-9 band because the brand owner itself has a plausible, genuine end-use: short official addresses for an autonomous-driving service, app deep links and a namespace that is hard to spoof, which is a credible primary-identity use for that one organisation over the next 5 years. By analogy (flagged as analogy), many brand TLDs from the earlier new-gTLD round were delegated and then used lightly or not at all, with some operators later withdrawing them, while a minority became the brand's genuine primary web identity; which of those paths this string follows is not determinable from the record. Main market uncertainty: whether the applicant will move its consumer-facing properties onto the string as their primary identity, or keep it as a defensive or experimental holding, since that alone decides whether the namespace has any observable end-use value.