.vend
Is .vend a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .vend in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Intercap named .vend as the backup string of its .product application.
A short selling-verb ending that fits vending and vendor tools, but few buyers would pick it as their main address.
vending-machine and unattended-retail operators, vendor-management and point-of-sale software makers, and marketplace or supplier portals wanting a short commerce-flavoured address
Nobody has applied for .vend 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: a bare English transaction verb offered as a universal commerce namespace that anyone moving goods can wear, with no category, brand or community narrowing who qualifies.
Same bet from the seller's side — a generic selling word whose value depends entirely on registrants treating "this is where I sell" as an address, not on any industry owning it.
Also a short generic exchange verb open to all sellers, but it carries a professional/B2B and financial-markets reading that splits its buyer pool, where .vend stays plainly retail-side.
What a .vend domain is
.vend 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 .vend in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .vend domain extension real yet?
.vend 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 .vend domain?
You can’t yet. A .vend 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 .vend was .buy, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .vend a real TLD?
Not yet. .vend is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .vend as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Intercap · first recordedICANN
“IRI2679T-T26488 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .product”ICANN
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its floor. The string is a real English verb meaning to sell, four letters, easy to spell and say, and it maps onto two concrete niches: vending and unattended retail, and vendor- or supplier-facing software (a 'vend' hack reads naturally for a vendor portal). That gives it genuine, if small, primary-identity use and keeps it out of the vanity band (10-29), where demand is event-driven and almost no serious project would use the ending as its main address. It does not reach the strong-niche band (50-69) because 'vend' is not how any buyer group describes itself — merchants say shop, store, sell, or vendor — so adoption would always need explaining, and the aftermarket for a verb-fragment ending is likely to be thin. By analogy (flagged as analogy): commerce verb and noun endings launched in the previous round, such as .sale, .buy, .market and .store, mostly produced either low registration counts or volume driven by promotional pricing rather than brand pull, with only .shop (a word people actually use for their business) achieving broad primary-identity use; .vend sits closer to .sale than to .shop. The verified record shows one application, from Intercap Registry Inc., filed as a replacement string for its primary .product application and classed standard (not brand, community or geographic), with no contention recorded; that is consistent with a general-purpose commercial registry rather than a closed use, which supports availability but says nothing about pricing posture, which is unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator positions .vend as a premium-priced short commerce ending (which would keep volume thin and push it toward the band floor) or as a low-cost mass ending (which could lift registrations but not the brand signal), and whether vending and vendor-software buyers read 'vend' as a natural category word or as an opaque fragment.