.domestic
Is .domestic a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .domestic, 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 vague adjective with no natural buyer group; "made at home" branding rarely needs its own web ending.
makers, retailers, and home-goods brands marketing locally produced or "buy domestic" products, plus a fringe of home-services and housewares businesses
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Made and loved close to home.”
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 everyday-life English word with no self-identifying registrant class, sold on evocative fit and second-word phrasing rather than to a group that already calls itself that.
The same household-sphere generic bet aimed at the same buyers (home services, household goods, property), just in the clearer, higher-demand noun form the target only gestures at.
Points at the target's most plausible commercial buyer (domestic cleaning and household-help firms), but it is a service-vertical noun those businesses literally name themselves after, whereas the target is an adjective nobody puts primary identity on.
What a .domestic domain is
.domestic is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. Nobody is chasing .domestic today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .domestic domain extension real yet?
.domestic 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 .domestic domain?
You can’t yet. A .domestic 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 .domestic was .living, delegated on 28 December 2015.
Is .domestic a real TLD?
Not yet. .domestic is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .domestic 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
“.domestic · Brand & Heritage · “Made and loved close to home.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place .domestic in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band, near its middle. The string is a bare adjective whose strongest associations are split among home goods, domestic flights, domestic labor, and locally-made sourcing, and it carries some negative collocations (e.g. domestic disputes) that dilute brand appeal; by analogy, standalone adjective gTLDs such as .best or .plus saw thin organic primary-identity use despite broad meaning (analogy, no figures). It is above the 1-9 band because a plausible micro-market exists in buy-local/made-domestically commerce and home-and-living brands where 'shopname.domestic' can read as intentional. It does not reach 30-49 because there is no evident registration driver that would produce volume or price-led uptake, and the word does not signal a category the way .shop or .homes does (analogy). Applicant is a large-portfolio ICANN 2026 applicant (323 strings), which suggests catalog-style marketing rather than a dedicated community push; that tempers adoption likelihood. Main market uncertainty: whether onshoring / buy-domestic consumer sentiment over the next 5 years converts into any measurable demand for a matching namespace rather than staying on .com.