.vegan
Is .vegan a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .vegan in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Phoenix Domain Partners named .vegan as the replacement string of its .amor application.
A clear lifestyle label with a passionate audience, but most vegan brands will keep .com and use .vegan as a side address.
plant-based food brands, restaurants, cosmetics and fashion labels, recipe creators and advocacy groups that want the word in the address itself
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: a dietary-observance word that adherents own as an identity and that businesses adopt to signal compliance to that community, so the TLD's value rests on being read as a credential by a self-selecting audience rather than on search demand for a product category.
Same bet again — an ethics/diet label whose primary registrants are producers and certifiers proving they qualify, which means the string only works if the community accepts whoever runs it as a legitimate steward of the word.
Also a food-ethic adjective that growers and brands would put their primary identity on, but it leans more toward a regulated commercial product claim than a personal-identity label, so the buyer is a seller first and a believer second.
What a .vegan domain is
.vegan is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .vegan in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .vegan domain extension real yet?
.vegan 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 .vegan domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .vegan name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .vegan was .kosher, delegated on 10 June 2016.
Is .vegan a real TLD?
Not yet. .vegan is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .vegan as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Phoenix Domain Partners · first recordedICANN
“MLG2688T-T99142 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .amor”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 is a single, globally understood word tied to a committed identity group, and it reads naturally after a brand or product noun (a burger, bakery or skincare line ending in .vegan says what it is without a tagline). That is a real but narrow pull: by analogy with other lifestyle and values strings such as .yoga, .fit, .diet, .organic, .bio and .eco (an analogy, not a measured outcome), these TLDs tend to attract a steady trickle of registrations from the niche, some redirect and campaign use, and only occasional primary-identity use by serious companies, with thin aftermarket demand beyond a handful of generic keywords. It is not in the 50-69 band because the plant-based category already names itself inside the second level on .com (brand + 'vegan' in the name), so the TLD adds description rather than credibility, and a serious funded project adopting it as its sole identity would still have to explain the choice to investors and retail partners. It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is durable rather than event-driven: veganism is a lasting consumer segment with many small businesses, creators and advocacy groups for whom the word is central to their offer, which supports volume registrations at low price points and a few meaningful keyword resales. Applicant fact, stated neutrally from the record: one standard application exists, from Phoenix Domain Partners (101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd.), recorded as a replacement string of .amor; no contention is recorded. A portfolio-style applicant suggests a marketing-led, open registry model, which fits volume-on-price adoption more than community gatekeeping. Main market uncertainty: whether any recognizable plant-based brand or large retailer adopts a .vegan address as its primary identity in the first years, which would move the string from descriptive label to credible brand signal. Registration counts, pricing and comparable TLD volumes: unknown; not asserted here.