.abundance
Is .abundance a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .abundance, 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 feel-good word for wellness and prosperity brands, but too long and vague for most serious sites to build on.
wellness, manifestation, and prosperity-coaching brands, plus abundance-mindset creators and lifestyle projects wanting an affirmation-flavored web address
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “More than enough, and worth celebrating.”
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: an abstract, unownable feeling-state word with no product category behind it, sold on the hope that people will hang their primary identity on an emotional ideal rather than on what they sell.
Same aspirational-prosperity register and the same buyer pool of wealth-mindset coaches and lifestyle sellers, but it is a short blunt adjective staking a status claim where the target sells a softer wellness-flavored state.
Also a pure positive-affect abstraction with no vertical, so it lives or dies on the same premise that a mood word can anchor an identity, though its brevity makes it read more like a brandable vanity string than a movement label.
What a .abundance domain is
.abundance is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. Nobody is chasing .abundance today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .abundance domain extension real yet?
.abundance 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 .abundance domain?
You can’t yet. A .abundance 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 .abundance was .love, delegated on 2 April 2015.
Is .abundance a real TLD?
Not yet. .abundance is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .abundance 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
“.abundance · Festival & Fortune · “More than enough, and worth celebrating.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string is a nine-character abstract affirmation word: emotionally warm but hard to compose into a memorable second-level name, and it names no category a buyer searches for. By analogy (flagged as such), long positive-sentiment gTLDs like .charity, .faith, or .love have historically drawn modest, price-sensitive registration bases with little primary-identity use among funded projects, while shorter lifestyle strings like .life achieved volume mainly through low pricing rather than brand strength — .abundance sits below even those on length and composability. There is a real if shallow pocket of demand in the manifestation/wellness creator economy, which keeps it in the vanity/narrow band (10-29) rather than 1-9; it stays out of 30-49 because sustained volume registrations or a meaningful aftermarket are unlikely within 5 years for a string this long and generic. The applicant is a Beijing-based firm with a published portfolio of 323 submitted strings, consistent with a broad catalog play rather than a community-anchored launch, which tempers expectations of focused go-to-market investment. Main market uncertainty: whether the wellness/prosperity creator segment adopts affirmation-word TLDs as primary identities at all, or treats them as redirect vanity extras.