.leather
Is .leather a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .leather, 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
A narrow craft-material name; leather brands and artisans may register a few, but most will keep their .com as the real address.
small leather-goods makers, tanneries, repair shops, and craft-focused e-commerce sellers wanting a descriptive web address; occasional defensive buys by fashion houses
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Durable material with centuries of craft behind it.”
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 one-word material noun that doubles as the name of a hands-on trade, sold to small fabricators, workshops and suppliers who already identify by the material, and it works only if a modest craft vertical adopts a category word as primary identity.
Same generic physical-goods category bet with a buyer base of independent makers plus retailers and no dominant incumbent owner of the word, though it names the finished product rather than the material it is made from.
Same category-noun play aimed at makers and sellers of a durable goods niche, but it leans harder on retail/e-commerce and brand gravity than a material word that skews toward artisans, tanners and suppliers.
What a .leather domain is
.leather 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 .leather today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .leather domain extension real yet?
.leather 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 .leather domain?
You can’t yet. A .leather 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 .leather was .glass, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .leather a real TLD?
Not yet. .leather is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .leather 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
“.leather · Manufacturing & Materials · “Durable material with centuries of craft behind it.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). By analogy with existing product-material and fashion-adjacent gTLDs such as .shoes, .jewelry, and .furniture — which, flagged as analogy, have seen thin registration bases, price-driven demand, and little primary-identity use among serious brands — .leather addresses a real but small industry whose established players (luxury houses, tanneries, saddleries) overwhelmingly anchor on legacy domains. It is not band 30-49 because there is no evidence of volume or price-driven registration dynamics for a string this narrow, and not band 1-9 because a genuine global leather-goods and craft community exists that could plausibly sustain some descriptive and artisan use. The applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings, a fact stated neutrally; portfolio-scale operation suggests standardized registry marketing rather than deep vertical cultivation, which by analogy tends to cap category adoption. Main market uncertainty: whether artisan/maker e-commerce (leathercraft is a visible hobby-and-small-brand segment) adopts descriptive TLDs at meaningfully higher rates than prior fashion-vertical TLDs did.