.wood
Is .wood a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.wood is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 8 October 2026. It is XYZ. Identity Digital named .wood as a backup string for its .ace application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Identity Digital named .wood as a backup string for its .story application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Identity Digital named .wood as a backup string for its .consultants application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Identity Digital named .wood as a backup string for its .view application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A material word that fits woodworkers, timber firms and furniture makers, but a .com habit and a thin resale market keep it limited.
woodworkers, furniture and flooring makers, timber and lumber suppliers, forestry and building-materials businesses, plus hobbyist and craft brands wanting a material-word address
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .view application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .consultants application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .story application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .ace application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 exactly: a one-word raw-material noun that doubles as the umbrella name for a fragmented building-materials trade, sold to sawmill/fabricator/installer-type businesses who would put their primary identity on the material they work in.
Same buyer universe and the same "category noun owned by makers and sellers" logic, but the string names the finished product rather than the material, so it leans retail where .wood leans supply and trade.
Shares the shape of a short natural-material noun with evocative non-commercial uses, but it carries no organized trade sector behind it, so the registration demand it would have to attract is far thinner and less occupational.
What a .wood domain is
.wood is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .wood domain extension real yet?
.wood 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 .wood domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .wood name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .wood was .glass, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .wood a real TLD?
Not yet. .wood is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .wood is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“FCL2632T-T17678 · Fore Course, LLC · replacement string of .view · Deactivated FCL2632T-T31379 · Fore Course, LLC · replacement string of .consultants · Deactivated FCL2632T-T91840 · Fore Course, LLC · replacement string of .story · Deactivated FCL2632T-T97622 · Fore Course, LLC · replacement string of .ace · Deactivated XL2625T-T23589 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a plain, globally understood material noun with a real industry behind it (timber, furniture, flooring, construction, crafts), and its one confirmed application is a standard (non-brand, non-community) one, so open registration is assumed. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with other material and craft strings from the 2012 round (strings like .furniture, .tools, .flooring, and .construction, from memory and flagged as analogy), demand for such generic industry words has tended to be price- or volume-driven, with few businesses adopting them as primary identity over a .com and little aftermarket beyond a handful of one-word keywords. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is not a joke or vanity string: 'wood' is a legitimate category with sustained small-business and e-commerce activity, and short left-of-dot combinations (species, products, regional names) make coherent, memorable addresses that some craft and furniture brands would plausibly use. Operator facts on the record: the confirmed applicant is XYZ.COM LLC; a second application from Fore Course, LLC (an Identity Digital entity) is deactivated and was a replacement string for .view. A separate XYZ application for .ham lists .wood as its primary, which is neutral information about the applicant's portfolio structure. Counts, prices and dates beyond those in the facts block are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator prices and markets the string at a level that attracts real business adoption rather than only speculative or promotional registrations, and whether woodworking and furniture brands see enough credibility in the suffix to choose it as a primary address over an established .com.