What is .sling?
Brand TLDs operate under Specification 13 of ICANN's registry agreement. It lets a trademark owner keep every second-level name for itself, so you won't find .sling names for sale at any registrar.
.sling entered the DNS root zone on August 10, 2016, 10 years ago. It came out of ICANN's New gTLD Program, the 2012 application round that grew the root from 22 generic TLDs to well over a thousand.
DISH Technologies L.L.C. also runs one other TLD, including .dvr.
On the technical side, .sling is served by 4 authoritative name servers, every one of them reachable over IPv6. It is also DNSSEC-signed: the root zone carries a DS record for .sling, which lets validating resolvers check its answers cryptographically. Registration data is published over RDAP and WHOIS (the WHOIS server is whois.nic.sling).
Same registry, other endings
1 other TLD shares this operator.
.sling FAQ
What country is .sling?
None. .sling is a generic top-level domain, so it isn't tied to any country.
Who owns the .sling domain extension?
DISH Technologies L.L.C. operates .sling as its registry, under a registry agreement with ICANN.
When was .sling created?
.sling was delegated to the DNS root zone on August 10, 2016.
Is .sling a valid domain?
Yes. .sling is an active top-level domain in the DNS root zone, delegated in 2016, so .sling addresses work in every browser.
Can I buy a .sling domain?
No. .sling is a brand TLD under ICANN Specification 13, so names are reserved for DISH Technologies L.L.C.
Is .sling DNSSEC-signed?
Yes, the root zone holds a DS record for .sling.
Sources
Data from IANA root zone version 2026102000. Last changed December 12, 2025. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
