.resort
Is .resort a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.resort is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XYZ Registry and Identity Digital. Link Freedom Group named .resort as a backup string for its .ether application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Two of the two already run TLDs, 26.76M names between them. One runs one of .resort's closest 2012 strings: Identity Digital .villas.
Will names sell?
A clear travel word that fits hotels and destinations, but most resorts brand on mainstream domains, so demand stays modest.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .resort’s closest 2012 strings hold .villas 8K and .spa 2K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .villas, held 7,685 names, June 2026. .spa held 1,830. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
- .hotel
Same bet exactly: a singular generic noun naming a lodging-property type, sold to the individual property that would put its primary identity on it, and it only works if operators are willing to move brand identity off .com and if the registry can police who counts as a real one.
Same class of bet — an accommodation-property-type noun whose registrants are the properties themselves plus the rental/real-estate intermediaries around them — differing mainly in that it is plural and skews to inventory listings rather than a single flagship property.
Also a leisure-facility category noun bought by hospitality operators for primary identity, but the bet is muddied by a competing place-name/short-string claim that .resort does not carry.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and XYZ Registry face each other in 77 contests this round, .resort included.
- Identity Digital × XYZ Registry
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- XYZ Registry × Link Freedom Group
resort properties, destination-marketing groups, and travel-booking ventures that want a descriptive web address tied to leisure hospitality
What a .resort domain is
.resort is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .resort domain extension real yet?
.resort 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 .resort domain?
You can’t yet. A .resort name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens.
Is .resort a real TLD?
Not yet. .resort is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .resort is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- 2 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“OD2692T-T87441 · Oyster Dream, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-201 XL2625T-T79776 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-201”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T81276 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .ether · Deactivated OD2692T-T87441 · Oyster Dream, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-201 XL2625T-T79776 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-201”ICANN
“.resort · Commerce · “Your retreat from routine.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its upper edge. The string is a real, globally understood dictionary word attached to an industry with substantial marketing spend, and combinations pairing a destination name with .resort read naturally as an address, which supports genuine if scattered end-use. It is not in the strong-niche band (50-69) because, by analogy, hospitality- and travel-themed TLDs have tended to see thin primary-identity adoption: established properties overwhelmingly anchor their brand on mainstream domains and treat descriptive extensions as redirects or campaign pages at best, and the aftermarket for such strings has been shallow (analogy-based inference; specific registration or sales figures are unknown). It is not in the vanity band (10-29) because the buyer base is commercial rather than novelty-driven, the word is short and unambiguous in English, and destination-plus-.resort naming gives it a plausible recurring use case beyond one-off events. Applicant facts: the string is announced by Link Freedom Group, which filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and published its list before Reveal Day; a large-portfolio applicant suggests broad marketing rather than deep single-string category investment, which tempers but does not decide the adoption outlook. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether independent and boutique resorts, the most plausible primary-identity adopters, will accept a non-mainstream extension for their main web presence, or continue to treat anything outside legacy domains as a credibility risk with guests booking direct.