.depot
Is .depot a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.depot is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 8 October 2026. It is CORE Association. Identity Digital named .depot as a backup string for its .official application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Identity Digital named .depot as a backup string for its .elite application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. XYZ named .depot as a backup string for its .fest application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Identity Digital named .depot as a backup string for its .counseling application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A plain "store or warehouse" word that some retailers and logistics firms could use, but it adds little brand weight on its own.
retailers, wholesalers, parts and supply sellers, and logistics or storage operators wanting a "depot" identity, especially in European markets where the word is everyday shop vocabulary
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .counseling application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .fest application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .elite application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .official 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 as .depot: a plain English facility noun for keeping physical goods, whose natural primary-identity holders are the operators of those facilities (self-storage, logistics, trade yards) rather than any one brand.
Like depot, it is a generic goods-trade word whose real use is as a name suffix for sellers of physical stock (farm supply, parts supply), so the bet is that merchants adopt it as the back half of their identity.
The same generic retail-format noun bet — a place-where-you-buy-things word open to any seller — but pitched at the whole of retail rather than depot's narrower trade/bulk-goods corner.
What a .depot domain is
.depot is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .depot domain extension real yet?
.depot 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 .depot domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .depot name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .depot was .storage, delegated on 18 December 2015.
Is .depot a real TLD?
Not yet. .depot is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .depot is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“CA2682T-T15037 · CORE Association · primary VSL2633T-T21827 · Vinyl Strings, LLC · replacement string of .counseling · Deactivated VSL2633T-T53503 · Vinyl Strings, LLC · replacement string of .elite · Deactivated VSL2633T-T77260 · Vinyl Strings, LLC · replacement string of .official · Deactivated XL2625T-T10013 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .fest · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a real dictionary word with clear retail and warehousing meaning in English, German, French and Dutch, so registrations at volume are plausible if priced low, and a parts seller or storage business could credibly run on name.depot. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with 2012-round commerce strings such as .supply, .supplies, .parts and .storage, narrow trade-vocabulary TLDs tend to attract defensive and speculative registrations rather than sustained primary-identity use, and the broader .store and .shop strings already serve the same buyer with a more obvious meaning; this is an inference from analogy, with no figures asserted. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is not a joke or event string: it describes a genuine business type across several languages and has a plausible, if small, recurring buyer pool. The strongest associations with the word are large existing retail brands, which makes the aftermarket thin and raises trademark-collision risk for the most desirable labels. Applicant facts from the record: a single application by CORE Association, status confirmed, no contention recorded; this suggests a straightforward path but says nothing about pricing or launch model. Main market uncertainty: whether European everyday usage of 'depot' as a common shop and storage noun lifts demand above the low-volume outcome seen for English-only trade words.