.cloudchina
Is .cloudchina a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .cloudchina, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A long two-word mashup with no natural buyer: China's cloud brands have their own names, and few serious sites would build on it.
cloud-hosting resellers and marketing sites pitching China-based compute or connectivity to overseas customers; possibly campaign microsites for cross-border infrastructure offerings
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Computing power, delivered from China's cloud.”
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.
The same generic infrastructure-category noun deliberately fenced to one national market, betting that cloud operators serving a specific country want a market-scoped version of the category namespace rather than the global one.
Identical category noun with an identical buyer set (hosting/IaaS/SaaS firms putting their primary service identity on the string); the only divergence is that the target bolts a geographic fence onto the same generic.
Same construction of an internet-infrastructure category word welded to a China/Chinese-market qualifier, betting local registrants prefer 'this category, for this market' over either the plain global category or the ccTLD.
What a .cloudchina domain is
.cloudchina is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody is chasing .cloudchina today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .cloudchina domain extension real yet?
.cloudchina 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 .cloudchina domain?
You can’t yet. A .cloudchina 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 .cloudchina was .クラウド, delegated on 19 February 2016.
Is .cloudchina a real TLD?
Not yet. .cloudchina is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .cloudchina and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.cloudchina · Future Tech · “Computing power, delivered from China's cloud.””Journey To The West Corporation
- This lands in the vanity/narrow band (10-29). The string is a Latin-script compound aimed at a Chinese-language market, which by analogy with other English-keyword TLDs marketed toward China tends to suppress domestic uptake, while major Chinese cloud vendors already anchor their identities on their own brand domains, leaving no obvious primary-identity buyer. By analogy, single-keyword cloud/tech TLDs already in market achieved only modest niche adoption, and compound keyword+country strings have historically performed below their single-keyword parents in both volume and aftermarket, so a two-concept mashup starts weaker still. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no plausible path to volume or price-driven registrations for so specific a phrase, and not in the 1-9 band because a thin trickle of China-cloud marketing microsites is realistic over 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether China-domestic regulatory acceptance and any state-aligned compute-export push would create institutional demand that the string alone does not.