.sus
Is .sus a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.sus is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is XYZ.
A meme-slang ending for joke sites and clever one-word domains; fun to own, but few serious projects would make it their main address.
meme-literate creators, gamers, streamers and hobbyists buying short domain hacks ("that.sus", "very.sus") for jokes, side projects and novelty sites, plus some brand owners registering defensively
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 piece of internet-speak with no category or industry behind it, monetized purely on attitude and memeability to individuals and joke-name buyers, so demand rises and falls with whether the slang stays current.
Same bet in that it is a pejorative verdict word whose value comes from applying it to someone or something else, but its economics lean on grievance and defensive brand registration rather than the playful self-expression that drives a slang word like the target.
Same bet of selling a one-word slang judgment born on the internet to anyone wanting a punchy, in-joke name, with the same exposure to the word aging out of use.
What a .sus domain is
.sus 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 .sus domain extension real yet?
.sus 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 .sus domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .sus name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .sus was .wtf, delegated on 23 April 2014.
Is .sus a real TLD?
Not yet. .sus is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .sus is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). ".sus" reads as internet slang for "suspicious", a term that spread through gaming and meme culture; its appeal is the sentence-like domain hack, not an industry or category. Real-world demand for the string itself is unknown (no registration data is in the verified facts). By analogy with other slang and joke endings such as .lol, .wtf, .fail and .rip (analogy, not fact), such TLDs tend to see a burst of novelty registrations, weak renewal behaviour, and very few serious primary identities; the aftermarket is thin beyond a handful of memorable one-word hacks. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations at meaningful volume would depend on the slang keeping mainstream currency over 5 years and on aggressive promotional pricing, neither of which is established, and the brand signal is actively negative for most businesses ("suspicious" is not what a serious project wants next to its name). It is not in the 1-9 band because a real, if small, market exists: meme and streamer culture does buy joke domains, and the string is short, pronounceable and instantly understood by its target buyer. Applicant facts from the record, stated neutrally: one confirmed standard application by XYZ.COM LLC with no contention on the record; a related .ball application naming this string as primary is recorded as deactivated. Main market uncertainty: whether the slang stays in everyday use among young internet users for the next 5 years or fades like most meme vocabulary, which decides whether demand is a short novelty wave or a modest sustained trickle.