.therapist
Is .therapist a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .therapist in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Phoenix Domain Partners named .therapist as the replacement string of its .quote application.
A plausible home for solo therapy practices, but similar profession TLDs have stayed small; expect niche use and little resale value.
independent mental-health, physical and massage therapists and small group practices wanting a descriptive web address for a local practice; secondarily therapy directories and booking platforms
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 almost exactly: a single allied-health practitioner title that individual clinicians and small private practices would adopt as their primary identity, depending on the title being widely self-applied rather than owned by one registry or body.
Also a singular practitioner-profession noun whose buyers are solo and small-group providers naming their own practice, so it rises or falls on whether individual licensed humans — not corporate brands — will re-root their identity on a profession TLD.
The same profession-as-identity bet at practitioner level, but for a formally licensed, higher-fee, directory-heavy trade, so the string carries gatekeeping and trust-verification expectations that a looser title like therapist does not.
What a .therapist domain is
.therapist is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. Nobody has applied for .therapist in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .therapist domain extension real yet?
.therapist 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 .therapist domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .therapist name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .therapist was .physio, delegated on 19 June 2014.
Is .therapist a real TLD?
Not yet. .therapist is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .therapist as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Phoenix Domain Partners · first recordedICANN
“MLG2688T-T91223 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .quote”ICANN
“MLG2688T-T61684 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .beach · Deactivated XL2625T-T45963 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .mart · Deactivated”ICANN
“Phoenix Domain Partners published 13 strings for which it says it has applied and paid the application fees.”Domain Name Wire
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string names a large, fragmented, web-dependent profession: solo and small-practice therapists (psychotherapy, counselling, physical and massage therapy) routinely need a site for intake and are comfortable with descriptive naming like name-plus-profession, so a share of registrations would be genuine primary identities rather than defensive or speculative holds. By analogy (flagged as analogy), existing single-profession TLDs such as .dentist, .lawyer, .attorney and .accountant have produced modest, price- and marketing-driven registration bases rather than category defaults, with a thin aftermarket; .therapist is a longer string than most of those and the profession is more fragmented and more directory-driven (practitioners are often found through listing platforms rather than their own domain), which argues against outperforming them. Not the band above (50-69): adoption would still need explaining to clients used to .com, there is no evidence profession TLDs build a real aftermarket, and the registrant base is unlikely to show sustained growth beyond the initial marketing wave. Not the band below (10-29): demand is not event-driven or joke-driven; it is a durable, recurring professional need, and a practice using name.therapist as its primary identity is credible rather than novelty. Applicant facts are stated neutrally: the one application on the record is from Phoenix Domain Partners (101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd.), recorded as a replacement string of its primary .quote application, with a standard (non-brand, non-community) application type and zero contention on the record. Registration volume, pricing and any eligibility restriction are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether a protected-title profession (where 'therapist' is a regulated term in some jurisdictions) treats the TLD as a credibility signal that drives primary-identity use, or whether the directory-platform habit and .com default leave it as a vanity or redirect address for most registrants.