.cannabis
Is .cannabis a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .cannabis in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Identity Digital named .cannabis as the replacement string of its .inn application.
A clear industry word, but cannabis businesses mostly stay on .com, so it reads as a niche add-on rather than a main address.
legal-market cannabis dispensaries, growers, brands, and industry media or directories that want a descriptive address, plus defensive registrations by established operators
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as the replacement string of the applicant's .inn, .sdk, .ball and .brand applications
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 product-category noun for a consumer intoxicant, sold into an age-gated trade whose legality and marketing rules differ by jurisdiction, with producers, retailers and enthusiast media all plausibly putting primary identity on it.
Same shape of bet — a mass-market substance category noun that has to monetise a fragmented producer-plus-retailer-plus-culture base rather than one incumbent — but it rides a fully legal, mature industry instead of one still buying legitimacy.
The closest vice-economy parallel: a generic whose whole thesis is that operators in a legally patchwork, payment- and ad-restricted category will pay for a category-defining address that signals a legitimate, above-board business.
What a .cannabis domain is
.cannabis is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .cannabis in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .cannabis domain extension real yet?
.cannabis 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 .cannabis domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .cannabis name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cannabis was .vodka, delegated on 31 March 2014.
Is .cannabis a real TLD?
Not yet. .cannabis is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .cannabis as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
“VTL2632T-T14662 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · replacement string of .inn VTL2632T-T46338 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · replacement string of .sdk VTL2632T-T72986 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · replacement string of .ball VTL2632T-T88824 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · replacement string of .brand”ICANN
“VTL2632T-T46338 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string names a real, sizeable, legally recognised commercial vertical in many jurisdictions, and it is a plain generic noun that a dispensary, grower, brand, or trade publication could use without ambiguity, which keeps it above the vanity/joke band (10-29): there is a defined buyer group with ongoing commercial reasons to register, not just event-driven curiosity. It stays below the strong-niche band (50-69) because sustained primary-identity use is doubtful: licensed cannabis operators face advertising and platform restrictions and often prefer neutral or location-based .com names rather than a word-explicit address that flags the product category; the industry has also been through financial strain, which thins the pool of brands willing to pay for a secondary namespace. By analogy (flagged as analogy), product-vertical TLDs for regulated consumables such as .beer, .wine, .vin, and .vodka have generally produced modest registration bases, some defensive registrations, and thin aftermarkets rather than becoming category defaults; .cannabis seems likely to track that pattern, with the extra drag of legal fragmentation across jurisdictions. Verified facts: one standard application on the record from Identity Digital (Velvet Taupe, LLC), filed as a replacement string for .inn, with zero contention recorded; a large portfolio operator improves the odds of broad registrar distribution, which supports volume more than brand strength. Main market uncertainty: whether legal-market cannabis brands and dispensary chains adopt a term-explicit TLD as their primary identity, or avoid it precisely because it labels them, leaving the namespace to defensive and speculative registrations.