.visit
Is .visit a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.visit is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Innovation Service, Intercap and Suffix. NextGEN TLDs named .visit as a backup string for its .gamer application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Link Freedom Group named .visit as a backup string for its .join application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Fits tourism 'Visit X' branding, but destinations mostly hold that name elsewhere, so it likely stays a redirect and campaign niche.
tourism boards, destination marketers, hotels and attractions, plus event and venue promoters wanting a call-to-action address for campaigns and redirects
Listed in Suffix Inc.'s public catalog at suffix.domains. No first-party application statement is on the record yet; every string in the catalog overlaps Link Freedom Group's published list.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Arrive where you belong.”
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .gamer application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 short, generic tourism word that works as both verb and noun, whose natural registrants are destinations, attractions and travel operators putting a come-here invitation on their primary identity.
Same bet in the same vertical: a one-word imperative travel verb that only pays off if travel brands are willing to make a call-to-action their address rather than their company name.
Identical structural bet — a bare consumer-action verb standing in for a whole leisure vertical, sold to venues and their marketers — but the vertical is dining rather than travel.
What a .visit domain is
.visit is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Places category. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .visit domain extension real yet?
.visit 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 .visit domain?
You can’t yet. A .visit name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens.
Is .visit a real TLD?
Not yet. .visit is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .visit is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- NextGEN TLDs · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- Innovation Service · first recordedICANN
- Intercap · first recordedICANN
- Suffix · now confirmedICANN
- Suffix · now announced
- Suffix · first recordedSuffix Inc.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“IRI2679T-T40552 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-245 ISL2626T-T98626 · Innovation Service Limited · primary · contention set 2026-245 SI2639T-T26609 · Suffix Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-245”ICANN
“IRI2679T-T40552 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-245 ISL2626T-T98626 · Innovation Service Limited · primary · contention set 2026-245 LFGL2683T-T12771 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .join · Deactivated NTG2671T-T46717 · NextGEN TLDs GmbH · replacement string of .gamer · Deactivated SI2639T-T26609 · Suffix Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-245”ICANN
“Catalog lists: .asap .create .future .lfg .mvp .out .pal .planet .research .share .tag .this .visit”Suffix Inc.
“.visit · Lifestyle · “Arrive where you belong.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string has one genuinely strong semantic hook: the 'Visit X' convention is an established naming pattern in destination marketing worldwide, so place-name.visit reads naturally and could serve tourism campaigns. But that same convention works against primary-identity adoption: destination organizations tend to already brand on visit-plus-place names in legacy namespaces, and by analogy with verb-style and travel-sector TLDs such as .travel, .voyage, .tours and .vacations, which have seen thin serious-brand uptake (analogy, not asserted data), a switch of primary identity to a new suffix is hard to motivate over the next 5 years. It is not in the 50-69 band because sustained primary-identity demand is speculative: the realistic use is campaign microsites and redirects, not the address a tourism board or hotel puts on its signage as its main identity. It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not merely vanity or event-driven; there is a durable, well-funded buyer category (destination marketing) whose existing naming convention matches the string exactly, which is more than most verb TLDs can claim. Applicant context, stated neutrally from verified facts: Link Freedom Group filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and lists this string under category Lifestyle with the tagline 'Arrive where you belong.'; a large-portfolio applicant suggests a broad go-to-market rather than a dedicated tourism-industry push, which tempers expectations for category-specific evangelism. Main market uncertainty: whether destination-marketing organizations, a conservative and committee-driven buyer group, will treat place.visit as a primary digital identity or only as disposable campaign inventory; the score assumes the latter.