.hund
Is .hund a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .hund in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. LABonline UG (haftungsbeschränkt) named .hund as the replacement string of its .bremen application.
German for "dog": a memorable hobby and pet-services address for German speakers, but a narrow market where .de stays the default.
dog owners, breeders, trainers, groomers and pet shops in German-speaking countries wanting a playful, on-topic address
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 exactly, just in English: a single-species category noun that breeders, vets, groomers and owner communities would put their primary identity on, with no company or community owning the word.
The German-common-noun bet — a generic everyday word whose entire addressable market is German speakers, so it must win on language affinity rather than volume, which is the structural constraint .hund faces.
The same animal-owner category play one level of abstraction up: a generic noun sold to the same pet-trade registrants, differing only in that it addresses the whole category rather than one species.
What a .hund domain is
.hund 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 .hund in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .hund domain extension real yet?
.hund 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 .hund domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .hund name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .hund was .dog, delegated on 29 April 2015.
Is .hund a real TLD?
Not yet. .hund is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .hund as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- LABonline UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · first recordedICANN
“LUH2638T-T63805 · LABonline UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · replacement string of .bremen”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). .hund is the German dictionary word for dog, so its addressable market is pet owners and pet businesses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland — a real but small, single-language, single-topic audience. The verified record shows one standard application from LABonline UG, filed as a replacement string for .bremen, with no contention and no category tag; the existence of a committed applicant modestly supports the view that someone expects a market. By analogy (flagged): the English-language .dog TLD has seen registrations but has not become a primary identity for serious pet businesses, which mostly stay on .com or their country code; and earlier German-language generic TLDs (for example .reise, .haus, .immobilien, .jetzt) have generally remained niche against .de, which dominates primary identities in the German-speaking web. .hund would be a narrower subset of both of those patterns. Not in the 30-49 band because volume registrations are unlikely: the word is language-bound and topic-bound at once, pet businesses already have .de, and no evidence suggests a pricing or distribution strategy that would drive bulk uptake. Not in the 1-9 band because there is a genuine German dog culture (clubs, breeders, boarding, training, food) for which a clean, memorable word like hund makes attractive vanity and campaign names, so some sustained demand is realistic. Main market uncertainty: whether German pet-sector businesses will adopt a single-word German TLD as a primary identity at all, or treat it purely as a redirect or hobby domain.