.spirit
Is .spirit a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .spirit in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Oinkadot named .spirit as the replacement string of its .heart application.
A pleasant, double-meaning word (drinks, soul, team spirit) that works as a vanity suffix but is unlikely to become anyone's main address.
distilleries, craft-spirits brands and bars on one side, and wellness, faith and personal-growth projects on the other, plus anyone wanting a "free.spirit" or "team.spirit" style phrase
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 short, warm abstract English noun that denotes no industry and no community, so it has to be sold on resonance to whoever wants to project feeling onto a name rather than to an obvious class of registrant who already calls itself that.
Same bet in the adjacent register: an abstract umbrella word over belief and inner life that nobody's organisation is literally named, so it depends on wellness/spiritual/inspirational users adopting a mood-word rather than on a defined category migrating to it (unlike .catholic or .church, which are a community's own label).
Also a one-word emotive abstraction with no native constituency, but it is a far broader, higher-traffic sentiment word, so the registration thesis leans more on sheer memorability and gifting/greeting use than on the narrower spiritual-identity pull the target is betting on.
What a .spirit domain is
.spirit 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 .spirit in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .spirit domain extension real yet?
.spirit 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 .spirit domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .spirit name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .spirit a real TLD?
Not yet. .spirit is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .spirit as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Oinkadot · first recordedICANN
“OI2692T-T22335 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .heart”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: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a positive dictionary word with two distinct meanings, distilled drinks and spirituality or morale, which widens the pool of possible registrants and supports phrase-style names (free.spirit, holy.spirit, team.spirit). It is not in the 50-69 band because no single category is likely to treat it as a primary identity: distilleries and drinks brands overwhelmingly anchor on legacy TLDs, and by analogy the beverage-themed TLDs from the 2012 round (.wine, .vin, .vodka, .beer) have stayed small, promotion-driven namespaces rather than category standards; the wellness and faith side similarly splits across .yoga, .faith, .church and legacy names without any of them becoming a default (analogy, not verified fact). It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is broadly usable and brand-friendly rather than a joke or event string, so registrations at volume or on price are realistic, and a modest aftermarket for the short phrase names is plausible. The verified facts show a single standard application recorded as a replacement string for .heart and no contention, which says nothing about market demand either way; adoption likelihood depends on the eventual operator's channel and pricing, which are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether the drinks trade, where the word is a genuine category label, adopts the extension for product or brand sites, or whether it stays a decorative suffix used mostly by hobby and personal projects.