.hospitality
Is .hospitality a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .hospitality in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ named .hospitality as the replacement string of its .bit application.
A real industry word, but long and generic; hotel and hospitality groups may register it, few will build their main identity on it.
hospitality management groups, hotel and restaurant operators, staffing and training firms, and trade associations that already carry "hospitality" in their name
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 long, abstract umbrella noun for an entire service industry rather than any one business type, sold to every firm across that sector (providers, suppliers, trade bodies) on the premise that operators will self-identify with the industry label instead of the concrete thing they run.
Same bet: a multi-word industry-sector term that brokers, agencies, and vendors across one trade would adopt as primary identity, which only works if the trade thinks of itself by its sector name and tolerates a long string.
Same shape of bet one rung narrower — a trade/activity noun whose registrants are the service businesses in that trade putting their own identity on it, though it names a single occupation rather than an industry-wide umbrella.
What a .hospitality domain is
.hospitality is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .hospitality in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .hospitality domain extension real yet?
.hospitality 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 .hospitality domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .hospitality name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .hospitality was .healthcare, delegated on 30 July 2014.
Is .hospitality a real TLD?
Not yet. .hospitality is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .hospitality 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), low end. The string names a large, real commercial sector, and a recurring naming convention exists for the best-fit buyer ('X Hospitality Group', hospitality staffing, hospitality schools), so registrations should occur beyond pure vanity and at retail price points rather than on name strength alone. It is not in the 50-69 band because the sector's actual businesses brand themselves as hotels, restaurants or venues, not as 'hospitality'; an address on it needs explaining to guests, and there is no established pattern of serious operators using an industry-word TLD as primary identity. By analogy (flagged as analogy), 2012-round industry-term strings such as .restaurant, .catering, .cafe and the sponsored .travel reached modest adoption and thin aftermarkets, with the string's length working against memorability; .hospitality is longer than most of those, which further limits left-of-dot value. It is not in the 10-29 band because, unlike a joke or event-driven string, there is a durable buyer group (management groups, staffing, training, consultancies, trade bodies) whose names already contain the word, which supports sustained if small demand and some genuine primary-identity use. Applicant facts, neutrally from the record: XYZ.COM LLC holds a standard application (XL2625T-T23714) for .hospitality as a replacement string of its .bit application; contention count on the record is 0. Main market uncertainty: whether hospitality groups and staffing/training firms adopt it as a primary identity at a rate beyond defensive registrations, and whether retail pricing lands at a level that drives volume rather than a small premium base. Over the next 5 years I expect a small, stable registration base with weak brand signal and a thin aftermarket, which keeps the score at the bottom of the band.