.beijing
Is .beijing a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.beijing is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Beijing Data Group Co., Ltd..
A city address for China's capital: handy for Beijing-based brands and public bodies, but .cn and .com remain the default choice.
beijing-based businesses, public institutions, events, tourism and real-estate ventures that want a city-branded web identity, plus Chinese domain investors speculating on a capital-city string
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 exactly: a major mainland-Chinese municipality putting its own city name up as a namespace, where the string's value and its right to exist both rest on a city government's endorsement inside the same regulatory environment, and the buyer is a local business or institution anchoring its identity to civic belonging.
A national-capital city name in Latin script standing in for a city whose own language is written in another script — the same dual-identity bet that the Latinized form is the one outsiders and local businesses will type, backed by municipal authority rather than a trademark.
Same category of string — a capital-megacity name sold as civic identity to a dense domestic business base — but the bet leans more on sheer commercial volume in an open market than on a municipality's sponsorship being the thing that makes the namespace legitimate.
What a .beijing domain is
.beijing is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Places. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .beijing domain extension real yet?
.beijing is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .beijing domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .beijing name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .beijing a real TLD?
Not yet. .beijing is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .beijing is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Beijing Data Group Co., Ltd. · first recordedICANN
“BDGC2627T-T17686 · Beijing Data Group Co., Ltd. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The verified record shows one confirmed applicant, Beijing Data Group Co., Ltd., with no contention and no category tag; the applicant name suggests a Beijing-based entity, which by analogy with other city TLDs backed by local institutions tends to help launch adoption, though nothing on the record states municipal endorsement. Demand dynamics: Beijing is the capital of one of the largest economies, so there is a large natural pool of local businesses, public institutions, universities, events and tourism operators, and Chinese retail investors have, by analogy with earlier new-TLD launches in China, shown a pattern of volume speculation on strings with local resonance. Against that, Chinese organisations overwhelmingly default to .cn, .com.cn and .com, a Latin-script city string is a marketing address rather than a primary identity for most Chinese-language brands, and by analogy with city TLDs such as .london, .nyc, .tokyo, .berlin and .paris the typical outcome is respectable registration counts with weak aftermarket pricing and mostly secondary or redirect use. Not the band above (50-69): genuine primary-identity use at scale is unlikely when the incumbent national ccTLD is this entrenched and the string needs explaining to a Chinese-language audience. Not the band below (10-29): a capital-city string with a plausible institutional backer and a very large local market is not a vanity or joke namespace; registrations at volume and some public-sector flagship use are realistic within 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether the registry obtains the domestic licensing that Chinese hosting and website filing require for a TLD, and whether Beijing public bodies adopt it as a flagship; without both, use shifts to offshore marketing redirects and investor speculation, pushing the score toward the bottom of the band.