.meow
Is .meow a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.meow is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is DotMeow Foundation.
A cute cat-themed address for pet brands and meme pages, likely bought for fun more than as a serious main web identity.
cat-content creators, pet shops and cat-product brands, and meme or community pages wanting a playful, instantly readable address
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 single-species affinity word sold as identity to that species' owners and the small businesses serving them, where the value is membership in an animal-lover tribe rather than coverage of an industry.
Same bet in word-type: a community's own playful in-group slang rather than a descriptive noun, which only works if the subculture is self-aware enough to wear its own vocabulary as a address.
Same bet on a short, pre-loaded internet expression whose demand comes from tone and fun rather than from describing what the registrant does — but it is aimed at everyone amused, not at one defined community.
What a .meow domain is
.meow is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .meow domain extension real yet?
.meow is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .meow domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .meow name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .meow was .dog, delegated on 29 April 2015.
Is .meow a real TLD?
Not yet. .meow is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .meow is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- DotMeow Foundation · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string is a cat vocalization, universally understood and memorable, which gives it real but shallow appeal: cat content is a large and durable corner of internet culture, and pet retail is a sizeable commerce category, so some buyers will want a .meow address for a brand, a blog, or a joke. By analogy (flagged as analogy), animal- and pet-themed strings from the 2012 round such as .pet, .dog and .cat (the last of which is a Catalan cultural TLD rather than a cat TLD) settled into niche use rather than becoming the default identity for pet businesses, which continued to favour mainstream namespaces; vocalization- and humour-style strings such as .lol, .wtf and .fun, again by analogy, saw registrations driven by promotional pricing and novelty with thin aftermarkets and limited primary-identity use. .meow is not in the 30-49 band because it is hard to see registrations happening at volume beyond promotions, and a serious pet-commerce project would usually need to explain the choice; it is above the 1-9 band because a genuine, if small, buyer group exists and the word needs no explanation to consumers. The applicant on the record is DotMeow Foundation, applying as an Applicant Support Program applicant, status confirmed; a foundation-style applicant may point to a community or non-commercial orientation, which bears on how aggressively the string is distributed through registrars, and that reach is unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether pet-commerce and cat-content brands adopt .meow as a primary identity in meaningful numbers over the next 5 years, or whether it stays a secondary, redirect-style vanity address. Contention count on the record is 1 with 1 application.