.weed
Is .weed a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.weed is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Oinkadot.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Oinkadot filed 25 applications across the round.
Will names sell?
A catchy address for cannabis shops and culture sites, but the slang and legal gray zones keep most serious brands on mainstream domains.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .weed’s closest 2012 strings hold .vodka 2K, .beer 151K and .wine 21K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .vodka, held 1,803 names, June 2026. .beer held 150,521; .wine held 21,079. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: an everyday product-word for a regulated intoxicant, sold as primary identity to producers, retailers and brands in a vice category that mainstream ad and payment channels treat as second-class.
Same bet: a broad, informal-register category noun for a recreational intoxicant whose buyers (makers, sellers, culture/enthusiast sites) would put their whole identity on it rather than treat it as a keyword rental.
Same structural bet — the plain-language name of a regulated intoxicant category with a producer and retailer base willing to brand on it — but the buyers are a long-established, legally settled trade rather than a newly legalizing one, so the identity-refuge motive is much weaker.
cannabis dispensaries, delivery services, seed and accessory sellers, and cannabis-culture media or affiliate sites wanting an unmistakable vertical label
What a .weed domain is
.weed is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .weed domain extension real yet?
.weed 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 .weed domain?
You can’t yet. A .weed 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 .weed was .vodka, delegated on 31 March 2014.
Is .weed a real TLD?
Not yet. .weed is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .weed is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Oinkadot · now confirmedICANN
- Oinkadot · first recordedDomain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
“A new partnership has applied for 25 top level domain names in this year's ICANN TLD expansion round.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited, at its low end. Cannabis is a real, established consumer vertical with businesses that need distinct web identities, and 'weed' is the most colloquially recognizable string for it, so registrations at volume are plausible, especially given the applicant context: Oinkadot is a partnership between Ray King (CEO of registrar Porkbun) and Todd Han (CEO of registrar Dynadot), and both principals run consumer registrars, which plausibly helps retail distribution. It is not in the 50-69 band because the slang register works against serious primary-identity use: licensed operators tend to present as compliant healthcare-adjacent or premium retail brands, and a slang TLD undercuts that signal, while advertising and payment restrictions in the vertical already push operators toward conservative, mainstream-looking domains; sustained aftermarket demand is unknown and, by analogy to other single-vice or beverage niche TLDs, likely thin. It is not in the 10-29 band because demand is tied to an ongoing commercial vertical rather than an event or joke, and defensive plus SEO/affiliate registrations give it a floor above pure vanity strings. Legal status of cannabis varies by jurisdiction, which fragments the addressable market. Main market uncertainty (launch assumed): whether legalization and mainstreaming over the next 5 years makes playful cannabis branding acceptable for licensed operators, or instead pushes the industry toward sober, compliance-signaling identities that avoid slang entirely.