.rabbit
Is .rabbit a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .rabbit, 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 cute animal-word ending for pet brands, mascots, and zodiac campaigns; fun to own, but rarely a serious project's main address.
pet-industry businesses, playful consumer brands using a rabbit mascot, and marketers running Chinese-zodiac or seasonal campaigns; hobbyists and rabbit-owner communities as a long tail.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Quick-witted and quietly lucky.”
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 short, everyday single-species noun sold as an open namespace whose value depends on an owner/breeder/hobbyist affinity crowd putting primary identity on the animal's own name rather than a category word like .pet.
Also a species noun rather than a category, wagering that one animal's enthusiast-and-trade community is coherent and monied enough to anchor a TLD by itself, which is the load-bearing assumption for .rabbit.
Nearest parallel for the ambiguity in the string: a whimsical common animal word with no organized professional constituency, so it must work either as a brand vehicle for whoever owns the word commercially or as a cute generic, and it cannot be both at once.
What a .rabbit domain is
.rabbit is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody is chasing .rabbit today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .rabbit domain extension real yet?
.rabbit 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 .rabbit domain?
You can’t yet. A .rabbit 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 .rabbit was .dog, delegated on 29 April 2015.
Is .rabbit a real TLD?
Not yet. .rabbit is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .rabbit 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
“.rabbit · Zodiac & Creatures · “Quick-witted and quietly lucky.””Journey To The West Corporation
- By analogy to existing single-animal TLDs such as .horse, .dog, and .fish, demand for animal-word endings has generally been shallow: novelty and hobbyist registrations, occasional mascot-brand use, and very thin aftermarkets — that pattern is an analogy, not a measured claim here. .rabbit adds a modest extra angle from the Chinese zodiac (the applicant catalogs it under 'Zodiac & Creatures'), which by analogy to zodiac-themed marketing could drive event-driven spikes around rabbit years rather than sustained primary-identity adoption. The applicant's large multi-string portfolio suggests a volume catalog play rather than a single-community bet, which typically means limited dedicated marketing per string. I place it in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: above 1-9 because a real if small market exists (pet commerce, mascot brands, zodiac campaigns), but below 30-49 because there is no evidence of volume or price-driven registration demand and the brand signal is whimsical rather than credible. Main market uncertainty: whether any sizable consumer brand with rabbit identity chooses a .rabbit domain as its primary address, which would legitimize the string beyond novelty.