.recovery
Is .recovery a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .recovery in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ Registry named .recovery as the backup string of its .roofing application.
A clear word with several meanings; small rehab, coaching and data-recovery shops may use it, but it adds little brand weight.
addiction and mental-health treatment providers, sober-living operators and recovery coaches, plus data- and disaster-recovery IT firms and sports-recovery wellness brands wanting a descriptive web address
Nobody has applied for .recovery 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.
Same bet almost exactly: an abstract treatment-journey noun that behavioral-health providers, clinics and sober-living operators would hang their primary identity on, sold to a fragmented small-provider vertical that already uses the word about itself.
Same bet of monetizing a stigmatized health condition whose own community and advocates would claim the string as an identity badge rather than a commercial keyword, though it rides a condition label where the target rides a process word.
Same bet on a care-and-rehabilitation service category bought by thousands of independent clinics and practitioners, but anchored to a credentialed profession rather than a patient's own state, which narrows who can credibly use it.
What a .recovery domain is
.recovery 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 .recovery in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .recovery domain extension real yet?
.recovery 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 .recovery domain?
You can’t yet. A .recovery 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 .recovery was .rehab, delegated on 4 June 2014.
Is .recovery a real TLD?
Not yet. .recovery is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .recovery as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
“XL2625T-T95614 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .roofing”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. 'Recovery' is a genuine descriptor across several real markets: addiction and mental-health treatment (rehab centres, sober living, recovery coaching, peer-support communities), IT data and disaster recovery, sports and wellness recovery products, and asset or debt recovery services. That breadth means real businesses already carry the word in their names, so some primary-identity use by small clinics, coaches and local IT shops is plausible, which keeps the string out of the 10-29 vanity band. It does not reach 50-69 because the word's meaning splits across unrelated industries, so the TLD never signals one category cleanly, and the closest analogy, .rehab (a health-adjacent descriptive TLD from the 2012 round), by analogy saw modest uptake and a thin aftermarket: treatment providers tend to prefer discreet, trust-building names over a descriptive suffix, and larger wellness or IT brands are unlikely to adopt it as their main identity. Other descriptive health and service strings (.care, .clinic, .support, .repair) suggest by analogy that such TLDs register at volume or on price without building strong brand signal. On the record, the sole application is from XYZ.COM LLC as a standard application and a replacement string for its primary .roofing application; registry pricing and launch strategy are unknown, and by analogy with other descriptive strings in volume-oriented portfolios, adoption would likely be price-driven rather than brand-driven. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether addiction-treatment providers, the largest natural buyer group, embrace a descriptive namespace at all, or whether discretion and advertising-trust concerns in that sector keep them on .com and leave .recovery to scattered IT and wellness registrants.