.grill
Is .grill a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .grill in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ Registry named .grill as a backup string for its .mart application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Phoenix Domain Partners named .grill as a backup string for its .beach application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A fun, narrow food-and-restaurant address with a small natural buyer group; memorable, but rarely a serious primary web identity.
bar-and-grill and steakhouse restaurants, barbecue hobbyist communities, and grill or outdoor-cooking equipment brands looking for a playful secondary or campaign address
Nobody has applied for .grill in its own right.
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .beach 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 .mart 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.
Both are narrow everyday food-and-venue nouns that thousands of small independent eateries already use in their own trading names, so the bet is identical: sell cheap, descriptive identity at volume to tiny hospitality operators rather than to one owner.
Same bet on a generic signage word for a casual eating place — unowned by any brand, instantly understood, and worth something only if a mass of small venues will move their primary identity onto a category label.
Also a common-word noun straddling an appliance/room meaning and a restaurant-naming meaning, so it makes the same dual-audience bet (trade suppliers plus food businesses), though its retail and home-improvement pull is broader than a grill's.
What a .grill domain is
.grill 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 .grill in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .grill domain extension real yet?
.grill 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 .grill domain?
You can’t yet. A .grill 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 .grill was .pizza, delegated on 27 August 2014.
Is .grill a real TLD?
Not yet. .grill is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .grill as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“MLG2688T-T61684 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .beach · Deactivated XL2625T-T45963 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .mart · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string has one genuinely natural use — 'bar & grill' and steakhouse restaurants, plus barbecue culture and grill-equipment brands — so a real buyer group exists and the word reads cleanly as a suffix, which keeps it out of the 1-9 band. It is not in the 30-49 band because, reasoning by analogy, the food-and-hospitality TLDs from the 2012 round (.pizza, .cafe, .bar, .restaurant, .kitchen, .cooking, .recipes) have generally produced modest, price-sensitive registration bases with limited primary-identity adoption and thin aftermarkets, and .grill is narrower than most of those; restaurants in practice tend to default to .com and social profiles, and a grill TLD adds little credibility signal beyond novelty. The verified record shows two applications, both deactivated and both filed as replacement strings for other applications (.beach and .mart), which is stated neutrally and suggests the string was not the primary commercial bet of either applicant; this is assumed away for scoring since delegation is assumed. Main market uncertainty: whether the bar-and-grill restaurant segment would adopt the TLD as an actual primary identity (storefront, menus, reservations) or treat it as a vanity redirect — the former would push toward the low 30s, the latter keeps it in the low 20s. Registration volumes, pricing and renewal rates for the analogous food TLDs are unknown here and were not used as figures.