.supplier
Is .supplier a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .supplier, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A descriptive B2B word few companies would make their main web address; niche appeal to exporters and wholesalers, little resale value.
b2b manufacturers, wholesalers, and export-oriented sourcing businesses that want a keyword address signaling they sell to other companies, plus sourcing-directory and procurement-platform builders
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The partner behind every finished product.”
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 almost exactly: an open generic B2B commerce noun from the identical word family, sold to any business that wants to declare its place in a procurement/distribution chain, and dependent on businesses valuing a descriptive trade word over their .com.
The plural sibling of the same generic-trade-vocabulary bet — a category noun for goods-and-sourcing businesses, monetized by breadth of registrations rather than by any single owner putting a corporate identity on it.
Also a singular role-noun naming a business's position in a distribution chain that a company would wear as its own label, though it carries a narrower channel/franchise connotation than the fully open sourcing sense of the target.
What a .supplier domain is
.supplier is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody is chasing .supplier today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .supplier domain extension real yet?
.supplier 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 .supplier domain?
You can’t yet. A .supplier name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .supplier was .supply, delegated on 21 February 2014.
Is .supplier a real TLD?
Not yet. .supplier is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .supplier and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.supplier · Trade & Logistics · “The partner behind every finished product.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place .supplier in the 10-29 band. The closest live analogs — .supply and .supplies — saw thin adoption by analogy: some streetwear and hobby brands used .supply as a stylistic suffix, but neither became a primary-identity choice for serious B2B firms, and their aftermarkets stayed shallow (analogy; no figures asserted). .supplier is a role noun that describes what a company is to someone else, which works against primary-identity use: businesses brand around their name or product, and 'supplier' reads as a directory label rather than an identity — that keeps it below the 30-49 band, where I would expect at least volume registrations or a credible defensive/keyword market. It is above the 1-9 band because a real, if narrow, buyer group exists: export manufacturers (notably Chinese factories selling into global sourcing channels) and procurement-platform operators could plausibly use vendor.supplier-style addresses over the next 5 years, and the applicant is Beijing-based, which may aid distribution into that channel (stated neutrally from the facts block). My main market uncertainty: whether any large sourcing marketplace or trade-directory channel promotes the string to its vendor base, which is the only realistic path to volume.