.textile
Is .textile a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .textile, 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 fabric-industry label that reads clearly but few mills or fabric sellers are likely to make their main web address.
textile mills, fabric wholesalers, and apparel supply-chain businesses wanting a descriptive industry address; secondarily fiber-craft communities and users of the Textile markup language
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Woven, knitted, and shipped by the ton.”
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 singular material mass-noun that doubles as the name of a manufacturing-and-supply trade, sold to fabricators, mills and merchants who identify by the material they work in rather than to consumers, so it lives or dies on whether a fragmented B2B trade will re-badge off its incumbent .com.
Same kind of bet — a generic industry-category noun covering makers, suppliers and sellers of one goods class — but its buyer skews further downstream toward retail storefronts than the mill/converter base a material word like textile depends on.
Another unowned product-category generic aimed at an apparel supply chain, but it is the consumer-facing end of the same chain, so it competes for retail brand identity where textile would have to win industrial and wholesale identity instead.
What a .textile domain is
.textile 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 .textile today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .textile domain extension real yet?
.textile 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 .textile domain?
You can’t yet. A .textile 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 .textile was .glass, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .textile a real TLD?
Not yet. .textile is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .textile 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
“.textile · Manufacturing & Materials · “Woven, knitted, and shipped by the ton.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The word names a large real industry, but B2B manufacturers — heavily concentrated in Asia — overwhelmingly anchor identity on legacy TLDs and marketplace storefronts rather than descriptive gTLDs; by analogy, vertical-industry strings like .clothing, .fashion, and .build achieved registrations without becoming primary-identity defaults, and a heavy-industry term should underperform those consumer-facing strings. There is a minor secondary angle in the Textile markup language, likely too small to move demand. The applicant is one of 323 strings in a single announced portfolio, which suggests broad speculative coverage rather than a dedicated industry go-to-market; I treat that neutrally as bearing on adoption push only. I place it in the 10-29 band: it misses 30-49 because volume or price-driven registration demand for an industrial B2B term is doubtful by analogy, and it clears the 1-9 band because a genuine global industry and craft community give it a plausible thin market. Main market uncertainty: whether sourcing-platform or trade-show ecosystems in textile-exporting regions would ever standardize on a descriptive TLD for supplier storefronts.