.spring
Is .spring a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.spring is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Dynadot.
A pleasant word with many meanings but no clear buyer group; expect novelty names and word-play, not serious primary identities.
hobbyists and small brands drawn to the fresh-start, nature or wellness connotation, plus domain-hack buyers (off.spring, hot.spring, well.spring)
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 as .spring: a nature/season word carried by its connotation rather than a category, where the registry has to sell mood and memorability because no industry or community owns the term.
Both are everyday evocative words with a freshness/renewal halo and no defining vertical, so demand has to come from brands wanting a feeling on the right of the dot, not from an existing trade that needs a home.
Shares the pure evocative-common-word structure — multi-sense, unowned, no built-in registrant pool — but it is a colour with no seasonal or occasion pull, so the demand story is thinner than .spring's.
What a .spring domain is
.spring is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .spring domain extension real yet?
.spring 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 .spring domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .spring name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .spring was .sakura, delegated on 2 July 2015.
Is .spring a real TLD?
Not yet. .spring is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .spring is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Dynadot · first recordedICANN
“DL2636T-T31262 · DynaReg LLC · replacement string of .dyna · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T79139 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .boom · Deactivated MEI2662T-T81792 · Miaplacidus Exploration, Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a common English word with scattered meanings (the season, a water source, a mechanical part, a fresh start, a well-known software framework name), which spreads any demand thin rather than concentrating it on one buyer group. By analogy (inference, not fact), single-word nature and season TLDs from the 2012 round such as .garden, .flowers and .green became small, low-visibility namespaces rather than primary identities, and .spring reads similarly. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident volume use case or price-driven registration engine on the record; it is not in the 1-9 band because the word is positive, brand-friendly, pronounceable in many languages, and carries real domain-hack value (off.spring, hot.spring, main.spring), so some genuine registrations will occur. Applicant facts, stated neutrally from the record: Dynadot (DynaReg LLC) holds a confirmed standard application with no contention recorded, and the same applicant names .ufo as a replacement string; a registrar-affiliated operator has a built-in distribution channel, which modestly supports adoption likelihood but does not create demand by itself. Main market uncertainty: whether the renewal/wellness connotation draws a coherent cluster of brands (a genuine niche) or whether registrations stay as scattered word-play and seasonal novelty.