.pill
Is .pill a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .pill in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Oinkadot named .pill as the replacement string of its .hack application.
A memorable novelty word with a drug-spam shadow; few serious health or supplement brands would make it their main address.
supplement sellers, medication-reminder and adherence apps, pharmacy-adjacent marketers, and meme-culture registrants chasing "red.pill"-style novelty names
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 generic consumer-medicine word whose value depends entirely on gatekeeping — it only works if whoever runs it can prove the registrant is a legitimate licensed seller of drugs, otherwise the string becomes a liability rather than an asset.
Same bet in the adjacent lane: a short, singular consumer health-product noun bought by wellness and supplement marketers rather than by institutions whose own identity is the word, so it lives or dies on direct-response commerce traffic.
Also a clipped generic medicine-category string with no single owning body, but it points at clinical and professional identity (practices, hospitals, med-tech) where .pill points at the consumer product on the shelf.
What a .pill domain is
.pill 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 .pill in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .pill domain extension real yet?
.pill 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 .pill domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .pill name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .pill was .pharmacy, delegated on 5 September 2014.
Is .pill a real TLD?
Not yet. .pill is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .pill as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Oinkadot · first recordedICANN
“OI2692T-T85687 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .hack”ICANN
“CEI2660T-T22085 · Capella Exploration, Inc. · primary OI2692T-T54011 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .dine · Deactivated”ICANN
“A new partnership has applied for 25 top level domain names in this year's ICANN TLD expansion round.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string is a single everyday word tied to medicines, supplements and the 'pilled' meme vocabulary, so it is easy to remember and will attract event-driven novelty registrations. It is not in the 30-49 band because, by analogy with regulated-goods strings such as .pharmacy and with single-product strings such as .pizza or .beer (analogy), legitimate health businesses tend to keep .com or a broader health namespace as primary identity, and 'pills' carries a long-standing online association with unsolicited drug marketing that makes it an awkward brand signal; registration volumes for comparable product-word TLDs have, by analogy, stayed modest and price-driven with thin aftermarkets. It is not in the 1-9 band because there are identifiable buyer groups with real if shallow demand: supplement brands, medication-adherence apps, pill-organizer and packaging vendors, and meme or satire sites. Applicant facts on the record: Oinkadot Inc filed this as a replacement string in the ICANN 2026 round with its primary application being .hack, as a standard (not brand, community or geographic) application; contention count on the record is 0. A replacement-string posture suggests a general-purpose, open registry rather than a verified-pharmacy model, which, by analogy, points toward open-but-low-value demand rather than a credentialed health niche. Main market uncertainty: whether the registry adopts verification or anti-abuse policies strict enough that pharmacies and supplement brands treat a .pill address as credible, versus an open namespace where the drug-spam connotation dominates and the string settles into meme and defensive registrations.