.sheets
Is .sheets a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.sheets is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Google.
A product-name string tied to one company's spreadsheet app; outside that brand, few serious projects would pick it.
the applicant's own product and support surfaces first; secondarily bedding sellers, spreadsheet-template and cheat-sheet publishers, and sheet-music sites looking for a short word hack
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.
Identical bet: an everyday plural noun that doubles as a flagship productivity-app name, so the applicant is wagering that a generic word can carry a single company's product identity rather than an open category.
Same bet from the other vendor: a plain workplace word claimed as the namespace for a proprietary productivity suite, where the value depends on the brand reading beating the generic reading.
Also a common-word product name in the same suite-of-apps family, but the word's other everyday senses are far louder than the product's, so the brand-over-generic wager is a longer one.
What a .sheets domain is
.sheets is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .sheets domain extension real yet?
.sheets 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 .sheets domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .sheets name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .sheets was .docs, delegated on 18 December 2014.
Is .sheets a real TLD?
Not yet. .sheets is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .sheets is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Google · first recordedICANN
“CRRI2564-T83417 · Charleston Road Registry Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed application from Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.), filed as a brand type, so the primary use is the applicant's own product identity. Assuming general availability as instructed, the string has three plausible third-party readings — spreadsheets, bedding, sheet music/cheat sheets — none of which is a category where a project would choose this as its default primary identity, and the strong association with one company's spreadsheet product makes unrelated use feel borrowed or confusing. Not the band above (30-49): there is no volume registration driver or price-led demand pattern visible for a word this product-specific; by analogy with other single-company brand strings in earlier rounds, which have typically carried little or no open-market registration, aftermarket depth would be thin. Not the band below (1-9): bedding retailers, template publishers and 'cheat.sheets'-style hacks give a real if shallow market, and the brand owner itself has genuine end-use utility. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator ever opens registrations to third parties and, if so, whether buyers read the string as 'spreadsheet' (brand-bound) or as the generic noun (bedding, music) — the generic reading would widen the audience somewhat. Counts and outcomes for analogous brand TLDs are unknown here and are reasoned by analogy only.