.borrow
Is .borrow a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .borrow in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Innovation Service named .borrow as the backup string of its .donate application.
A lending-themed verb address: handy for a fintech campaign page, rarely a brand's main home, with little resale value.
fintech lenders, peer-to-peer and instalment platforms, and sharing-economy or library services that want an action-word address for campaigns and redirects
Nobody has applied for .borrow in its own right.
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 from the other side of the counter: an ungated generic consumer-credit word whose primary registrants would be lenders, brokers and comparison sites buying category authority rather than a brand.
Also a bare financial-transaction verb sold as a category label, betting that finance providers will put identity on the act of the deal; it differs in skewing to equipment/auto/property lessors rather than consumer credit.
The mirror consumer-finance verb — a one-word action a shopper performs, where the registry's bet is that money businesses will brand on the customer's verb instead of on their own name or product noun.
What a .borrow domain is
.borrow is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. Nobody has applied for .borrow in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .borrow domain extension real yet?
.borrow 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 .borrow domain?
You can’t yet. A .borrow 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 .borrow was .loan, delegated on 25 March 2015.
Is .borrow a real TLD?
Not yet. .borrow is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .borrow as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Innovation Service · first recordedICANN
“ISL2626T-T51112 · Innovation Service Limited · replacement string of .donate”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at the top of it. .borrow is a verb rather than a category noun, which makes it read as a call-to-action (a 'borrow' button) more than as an identity; by analogy (flagged as analogy), action-verb TLDs such as .rent, .buy and .sell have tended to see shallow uptake, with the strongest use being campaign pages, redirects and defensive registrations rather than primary identities. The nearest keyword neighbours, .loan/.loans and .credit, by analogy (flagged) attracted registrations largely on promotional pricing with weak brand signal and a thin aftermarket; .borrow lacks even that keyword-search pull because 'borrow' is not how lending businesses name themselves. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident volume or price-driven channel for the string and genuine primary-identity use would need explaining in every case; it is not in the 1-9 band because fintech lending, instalment and sharing-economy brands could plausibly adopt it for product or campaign addresses, so a realistic if narrow market exists. On the record the sole application is from Innovation Service Limited as a replacement string of .donate, with no contention recorded and no category tag; counts, dates and pricing beyond that are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether regulated lenders and instalment platforms are willing to put a consumer-facing product on a verb TLD at all, given the trust and compliance signalling they rely on from established extensions.