.sloan
Is .sloan a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.sloan is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Sloan Valve Company.
A closed company-brand ending: useful only to its applicant for its own sites, with no public registration and no resale market.
the applicant brand itself, for its own corporate, product and campaign addresses; not available to the public
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 founder's surname with no generic meaning, owned by one closely-held B2B manufacturer whose name is a specification standard inside a trade but anonymous to the public, so the string's whole value is corporate identity rather than any audience demand for the word.
Same bet of a common family surname being claimed as the single identity of one building-products manufacturer — it only works if that company's claim to an everyday personal name is strong enough to outweigh everyone else who shares it.
Also a founder-surname brand serving contractors and facility buyers rather than consumers, though it is a distributor identity rather than a manufacturer's specified product mark, so the audience is a channel instead of a spec sheet.
What a .sloan domain is
.sloan 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 .sloan domain extension real yet?
.sloan 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 .sloan domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .sloan name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .sloan was .schaeffler, delegated on 24 December 2015.
Is .sloan a real TLD?
Not yet. .sloan is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .sloan is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Sloan Valve Company · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its floor. The record shows a single application typed as brand from Sloan Valve Company, so the realistic use is a closed namespace where the operator registers names for itself. End-use utility exists but is narrow: by analogy with brand TLDs from the earlier round, a minority built genuine primary identities on their string while many kept it for redirects or left it dormant, and a business-to-business manufacturer brand tends toward the latter pattern (inference from analogy). It is not in the 1-9 band because one serious organisation can plausibly use addresses on it as working identities within the next 5 years, which is more than no realistic market. It is not in 30-49 because there are no volume or price-driven registrations, no third-party buyers, and no aftermarket by design; the string is also a surname shared by unrelated organisations, none of whom can register here, so the brand signal does not travel beyond the applicant (analogy, flagged). Main market uncertainty: whether the applicant migrates primary web properties onto the string or keeps it as a defensive holding; the former would lift it within the band, the latter leaves it at the floor.