.dentistry
Is .dentistry a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .dentistry in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ Registry named .dentistry as the backup string of its .lake application.
A clear dental-profession label, but practices already have a shorter sibling and mostly stay on .com; demand should be thin.
dental practices, dental schools and associations, and dental-industry suppliers wanting a descriptive web address
Nobody has applied for .dentistry in its own right.
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.
Identical bet one grammatical step over: an unowned generic word for a single licensed clinical field, sold to the thousands of small independent practices (and their suppliers) in that field, which only works if practitioners will re-anchor an established local identity onto a category word nobody can own exclusively.
Same field, same buyer pool, same dependency on practitioner adoption; it bets on the practitioner noun rather than the discipline noun, which is the sharper identity word for the individual clinic but otherwise an indistinguishable wager.
The same bet shape in a different licensed health profession: a plain-English generic naming a regulated practice, where credibility (and typically eligibility gating) is the product and the buyers are many small owner-operators rather than one brand.
What a .dentistry domain is
.dentistry is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. Nobody has applied for .dentistry in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .dentistry domain extension real yet?
.dentistry 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 .dentistry domain?
You can’t yet. A .dentistry 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 .dentistry was .dental, delegated on 23 April 2014.
Is .dentistry a real TLD?
Not yet. .dentistry is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .dentistry as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
“XL2625T-T47346 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .lake”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a real, unambiguous profession word, so there is a definable buyer group, but by analogy the existing profession-vertical TLDs (.dentist, .lawyer, .attorney, .doctor) have tended to sit as defensive or secondary registrations rather than becoming the primary identity dental practices choose; local practices, by analogy, overwhelmingly anchor on .com plus a local-search profile, and a profession-wide namespace adds little credibility that a license and a Google listing do not already provide. Not in 30-49 because .dentistry is a longer and more formal variant of an already-available sibling string, so even volume-on-price registrations would be split with that sibling and the aftermarket is likely to be close to nonexistent beyond a handful of generic terms (e.g. cosmetic, pediatric, implant). Not in 1-9 because the word is a genuine category with institutional buyers (schools, associations, journals, suppliers) for whom 'dentistry' is the natural noun and a few organizations could plausibly adopt it as a primary identity. Operator fact from the record: the applicant is XYZ.COM LLC, which filed .dentistry as a replacement string for .lake; the applicant's distribution reach and pricing style are unknown from the record and would mainly affect registration volume, not the brand signal of the string. Main market uncertainty: whether institutional dental buyers (academia, associations, dental-service organizations) treat 'dentistry' as meaningfully distinct from 'dentist' and adopt it as a sector namespace, which would lift the score toward the 30s.