.wholesale
Is .wholesale a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .wholesale, 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 clear business word, but bulk sellers rarely need a special ending; expect cheap registrations with little resale value.
b2b suppliers, distributors, and cross-border e-commerce sellers who want a dedicated address for a bulk-sales storefront or a wholesale channel separate from their retail site
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Buying in bulk, selling to the world.”
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 generic B2B distribution-channel noun that a supplier or distributor puts its primary identity on, monetized by businesses in the trade rather than by consumers.
Same bet: a plain commerce-channel noun whose whole value is signaling business-to-business dealing, so registrants are firms declaring which side of the counter they sell from.
Same bet in that the string is a pricing posture rather than a product category — the registrant's identity is the price promise itself — but it points at bargain-hunting consumers rather than bulk trade buyers.
What a .wholesale domain is
.wholesale 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 .wholesale today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .wholesale domain extension real yet?
.wholesale 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 .wholesale domain?
You can’t yet. A .wholesale 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 .wholesale was .supply, delegated on 21 February 2014.
Is .wholesale a real TLD?
Not yet. .wholesale is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .wholesale 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
“.wholesale · Trade & Logistics · “Buying in bulk, selling to the world.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place .wholesale at the bottom of the 30-49 'usable but limited' band. It clears the vanity band below because the string is a genuine commercial term with a real (if narrow) primary-identity pattern: a brand.wholesale address cleanly separating a B2B channel from a retail site, and wholesale trade is a large, durable activity. It does not reach the 50-69 niche band because, by analogy, descriptive commerce gTLDs of similar length and specificity (.supply, .market, .forsale, .deals) have generally settled into low-priced, low-renewal registration patterns with thin aftermarkets and few flagship sites, and nothing about this string suggests it would break that pattern over the next 5 years. The nine-character length and the availability of wholesale keywords under .com further cap brand signal. Applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio filer of 323 strings (verified), consistent with volume-oriented rather than community-anchored adoption. Main market uncertainty: whether B2B marketplaces or cross-border e-commerce platforms adopt it for supplier storefronts at scale, which is the one path to the niche band.