.girl
Is .girl a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .girl in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ named .girl as the replacement string of its .pop application.
A catchy word for lifestyle, beauty and creator brands, but brand-safety worries keep most serious projects on safer endings.
creators, beauty and fashion labels, girls' education and empowerment groups, and name collectors wanting a playful left-of-dot phrase
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 short, everyday personal-identity noun that millions of people apply to themselves, sold on the premise that individuals and lifestyle/retail brands will put their primary identity on a demographic label rather than a business category.
Same bet: a bare gender-cohort noun whose value depends on a whole gender adopting it as an address, with the same risk that it reads as a broad audience label nobody specifically owns.
Same bet in structure — a singular demographic person-noun aimed partly at the group itself and partly at the brands marketing to it — but the identity is held by parents and marketers rather than self-registered by the group named.
What a .girl domain is
.girl is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .girl in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .girl domain extension real yet?
.girl 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 .girl domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .girl name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .girl was .mom, delegated on 19 August 2015.
Is .girl a real TLD?
Not yet. .girl is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .girl as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited), at its lower edge. .girl is a plain dictionary word with obvious phrase-style registrations (cover.girl, it.girl, fit.girl style names) and a plausible buyer set in beauty, fashion, creator and youth-focused projects, so some registration volume is likely, particularly if distributed on price. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evidence of sustained primary-identity use for demographic strings of this kind: by analogy (flagged as analogy), gendered or family-role strings such as .mom, .dad and .guy have tended to see modest uptake and little aftermarket, and a serious company is unlikely to adopt .girl as its main identity when the word also carries adult-content and child-safety adjacency that many advertisers and platforms treat as a brand-safety flag. It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not purely event-driven or joke-only; lifestyle and creator demand for the word exists, and the string reads naturally in English. On the record, the only applicant is XYZ.COM LLC, with the application listed as a replacement string of .pop and a contention count of 0; that applicant has a history of broad registrar distribution, which affects adoption likelihood (volume) more than brand strength. Main market uncertainty: whether creator and lifestyle brands treat .girl as an acceptable primary identity, or whether the namespace's reputation settles toward low-trust and adult content, which would push it down a band.