.hill
Is .hill a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .hill in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ named .hill as the replacement string of its .advisors application.
A pleasant, memorable word with no clear buyer group; expect hobby and vanity use, not serious primary identities.
people and small ventures with "hill" in their name or place (surname Hill, hillside estates, Capitol Hill politics and lobbying), plus outdoor and landscape hobbyists
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 as .hill: a short, vague landform noun with no industry attached, sold on evocative suffix appeal ('X-land', 'X Hill') rather than on any defined category of registrant.
Also a generic place-type noun whose buyers are whoever happens to carry it in a place name or local identity, so demand is scattered across geography instead of concentrated in one trade.
A natural-world noun bought for atmosphere rather than for membership in a category, betting that an evocative English ground-word attracts mixed registrants with no obvious anchor tenant.
What a .hill domain is
.hill is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Places. Nobody has applied for .hill in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .hill domain extension real yet?
.hill 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 .hill domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .hill name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .hill was .land, delegated on 14 November 2013.
Is .hill a real TLD?
Not yet. .hill is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .hill as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a common English word with several meanings - a landscape feature, a frequent surname, and the political shorthand 'the Hill' for Capitol Hill and its lobbying ecosystem - but none of these forms a coherent category that would pick .hill as a default identity. The record shows no category tag and a single application filed as a replacement string rather than a primary one. It is not in the 30-49 band because, by analogy with other nature-word TLDs (.land, .earth, .rocks), such strings tend to gather registrations mainly on price promotions and hobby sites, with a thin aftermarket and weak brand signal, and .hill lacks even the broad real-estate hook that .land has (inference from analogy, flagged). It is not in the 1-9 band because the word is short, pronounceable, positive in tone, and has genuine niche hooks: surname vanity (name.hill), hillside properties, outdoor recreation, and a plausible Washington political cluster (firm.hill), so some real registrations and a few memorable brand uses are likely within five years. Applicant facts, stated neutrally from the record: XYZ.COM LLC filed a standard application, as a replacement string for its .advisors application; XYZ's history of operating generic strings makes broad general availability and promotional pricing plausible (inference from analogy). Main market uncertainty: whether any one niche meaning - most plausibly the Capitol Hill political and lobbying identity - concentrates enough to give the TLD a recognizable use, or whether registrations stay scattered across unrelated vanity uses.