.wind
Is .wind a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .wind, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A narrow keyword address for wind-energy firms; most serious players will keep their .com, leaving modest niche use.
wind-energy developers, turbine service and consulting firms, and renewables marketers wanting a keyword identity; a small long tail of sailing and kitesurf brands
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Energy captured from moving air.”
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.
Identical bet: a plain resource noun that doubles as the name of a renewable-generation industry, sold to the developers, turbine/panel makers and installers in that vertical who would put their primary identity on the category word itself.
Same category-noun-as-industry-identity bet aimed at the same power-sector buyer, but one level up the taxonomy — the umbrella sector rather than the specific generation technology, so it competes for a broader and vaguer registrant base.
Also a generic word monetized off the green-energy/sustainability wave, but it is a positioning adjective a company adopts to signal virtue rather than a literal description of what the registrant does, so the registrant motive is marketing rather than industry membership.
What a .wind domain is
.wind is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Infrastructure. Nobody is chasing .wind today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .wind domain extension real yet?
.wind is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .wind domain?
You can’t yet. A .wind 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 .wind was .solar, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .wind a real TLD?
Not yet. .wind is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .wind and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.wind · Energy & Mobility · “Energy captured from moving air.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The wind sector is real but structurally unfavorable for a keyword TLD: it is dominated by large industrial and utility players who anchor on established .com brands, with a thinner small-business long tail than solar has (installers, local contractors) — the segment that, by analogy, drove what uptake keyword energy TLDs like .energy and .solar did achieve, which by analogy has been modest niche registration rather than category-standard identity. Specific volume figures for those analogs are unknown, so this is reasoned qualitatively from analogy. Secondary lifestyle demand (sailing, kitesurfing) is plausible but shallow and rarely primary-identity. The applicant is a portfolio filer of 323 strings, which informs adoption likelihood only insofar as breadth of a portfolio says little about dedicated category marketing for this one string. Band chosen: usable-but-limited (30-49), at its floor — above vanity/joke because a nameable commercial sector exists and price-driven keyword registrations should occur, below strong-niche because sustained primary-identity adoption inside wind energy would need explaining and the aftermarket is likely thin. Main market uncertainty: whether small and mid-size renewables service firms adopt keyword energy TLDs at meaningful rates over the next 5 years, or whether that behavior stays negligible.