.valley
Is .valley a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .valley in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ Registry named .valley as the backup string of its .virtual application.
A pleasant regional label for businesses in named valleys, but too narrow to become anyone's default web address.
regional businesses, tourism boards, wineries and tech-cluster projects that identify with a named valley (silicon, napa, hudson and the like), plus hobby and lifestyle sites wanting a scenic word
Nobody has applied for .valley 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 bare, unowned landform noun sold on evocation and suffix-ability rather than a defined registrant class, so anyone — a region, a brand, a project — can hang a primary identity on it and nobody has a prior claim to adjudicate.
Same bet in settlement form: a generic place noun that no single place owns, monetized by local-identity and "yourname.town" usage, and it works only if enough small local entities choose a place-flavoured suffix over a functional one.
Also a contentless locational common noun whose whole proposition is reading well as the right half of a name, with the same weakness that it tells a visitor nothing about who is behind it.
What a .valley domain is
.valley is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Places category. Nobody has applied for .valley in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .valley domain extension real yet?
.valley 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 .valley domain?
You can’t yet. A .valley 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 .valley was .land, delegated on 14 November 2013.
Is .valley a real TLD?
Not yet. .valley is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .valley as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
“XL2625T-T58156 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .virtual”ICANN
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its floor. .valley is a generic descriptive-geographic word whose natural use is as a suffix to a place or cluster name (napa.valley, hudson.valley, silicon.valley style hacks), so the demand is real but spread thinly across many small regional economies rather than concentrated in one buyer category. The closest analogies are open descriptive-place strings such as .city, .town, .land and .world; by analogy those strings found steady registrations on price and for regional or novelty use but did not become a primary-identity default for any major category and carry thin aftermarkets, and .valley is narrower than any of them. It is not in the band above because no serious category of project would choose a .valley address without explaining it, and the best names (the famous valleys) are few and likely to be contested by trademark holders or local bodies rather than traded freely. It is not in the band below because the word has a genuine, non-joke descriptive use for regional businesses, tourism and wine, and that demand is durable rather than event-driven. The record shows a single application from XYZ.COM LLC filed as a replacement string for a primary .virtual application, standard type, with no contention recorded; that is noted neutrally and bears only on how the string might be marketed, not on the score. Main market uncertainty: whether the handful of globally recognised valley names (tech and wine clusters) generate enough regional-brand pull to lift the string into a recognisable niche, or whether demand stays at the long-tail hobby level typical of scenic-word TLDs.