.garment
Is .garment a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .garment, 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
An industry word most apparel firms would skip; .clothing and .fashion already cover this space with friendlier words.
garment and apparel manufacturers, wholesale suppliers, and sourcing agents — mostly B2B trade businesses in export manufacturing hubs — plus a thin tail of fashion-adjacent registrants
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Clothing made for the world's closets.”
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 exactly: an open generic product-category noun for the apparel trade, sold to any maker, wholesaler or retailer wanting a category-descriptive identity rather than a brand of their own.
Also an unowned industry-category noun aimed at the same apparel buyer pool, but it sells aspiration and lifestyle identity where .garment sells the trade/manufacturing side of the same business.
Same structural bet — a plain product noun that a whole apparel sub-industry could put its primary identity on — differing only in that it names a finished consumer product with obvious retail pull, while .garment names the input a supply chain deals in.
What a .garment domain is
.garment is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody is chasing .garment today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .garment domain extension real yet?
.garment 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 .garment domain?
You can’t yet. A .garment 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 .garment was .clothing, delegated on 6 November 2013.
Is .garment a real TLD?
Not yet. .garment is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .garment 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
“.garment · Manufacturing & Materials · “Clothing made for the world's closets.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place .garment in the 10-29 band (vanity/narrow). The word is trade-facing and industrial: real businesses exist in the space (apparel manufacturing is a large global industry), but by analogy with existing apparel-sector TLDs such as .clothing and .fashion — which, as I understand qualitatively, achieved only modest uptake and thin aftermarkets despite being more consumer-friendly words — a narrower synonym is likely to see weaker demand still. It is not in the 30-49 band because sustained volume registration is doubtful when two more natural English words already occupy the niche and B2B manufacturers overwhelmingly anchor identity on trade platforms and .com; it is above 1-9 because the underlying industry is real and some manufacturers and sourcing brokers would plausibly register descriptive names for lead generation. The applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings, which I read neutrally as a breadth strategy; per-TLD marketing depth is unknown. My main market uncertainty is whether apparel-export businesses in Asian manufacturing hubs would adopt a descriptive English trade TLD for storefront identity at any meaningful volume — that adoption pattern is the swing variable, and my read of it is analogy, not data.