.sleep
Is .sleep a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .sleep in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ Registry named .sleep as the backup string of its .path application.
A clear wellness keyword with a real consumer market behind it, but sleep brands are likely to keep .com and use .sleep for side sites.
sleep and wellness businesses (mattress and bedding brands, sleep clinics, sleep-tracking apps, supplement sellers, sleep coaches) wanting a descriptive secondary address or campaign site
Nobody has applied for .sleep 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: a single everyday wellness-state noun that no profession or industry owns, sold to a diffuse mix of product brands, programs, clinics and content publishers who each want the category word as their whole identity.
Also a consumer health-and-habit category word with broad product plus content demand, but it names an established commercial industry with its own operators and practitioners, so the registrant pool is more defined than for a bodily need like sleep.
Another short body/wellness common noun whose value rests on consumer-goods brands and advice sites adopting the category itself, though it leans on an existing retail beauty aisle rather than an unmonetized daily behavior.
What a .sleep domain is
.sleep 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 .sleep in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .sleep domain extension real yet?
.sleep 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 .sleep domain?
You can’t yet. A .sleep 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 .sleep was .diet, delegated on 16 August 2014.
Is .sleep a real TLD?
Not yet. .sleep is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .sleep as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
“XL2625T-T51499 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .path”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a common English noun naming a large consumer category (bedding, mattresses, clinics, apps, supplements, coaching), so registrations at volume and on price are plausible wherever the launch pricing lands; that keeps it out of 10-29, since this is not a joke or event-driven string. It is not in 50-69 because, reasoning by analogy from single-word wellness and lifestyle TLDs such as .yoga, .diet and .fitness, these strings have tended to draw keyword-style and promotional registrations rather than serious primary identities, with thin aftermarkets, and nothing in the record suggests .sleep would behave differently. Sleep-category companies are strongly .com-anchored and the word 'sleep' reads as a product descriptor rather than a brand signal, so the TLD adds little credibility on its own. The record shows one standard (non-brand, non-community) application by XYZ.COM LLC filed as a replacement string for .path, with zero contention; that implies a general-availability, open-registration model, which supports volume adoption but not a curated category-standard position. Main market uncertainty: whether sleep-tech and direct-to-consumer bedding brands treat .sleep as a usable primary identity for new launches, or only as a redirect and campaign domain; the former would push the score toward the top of the band.