.daigou
Is .daigou a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .daigou, 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 niche label for China's overseas personal-shopper trade, which runs on chat apps, not websites; few would make it their address.
cross-border personal shoppers (daigou agents) and the small cross-border commerce platforms, logistics forwarders, and agencies that serve the China-bound resale trade
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Personal shoppers bridging markets across borders.”
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.
Both are a non-English occupational noun sold to the practitioners of that trade as their primary identity, which only works if a self-identifying professional community adopts a word outsiders never search.
Both bet that a romanized East Asian commerce-category term carries enough trade-insider meaning to anchor a vertical's listings, despite being opaque outside its language community.
Structurally the nearest sibling, a pinyin Chinese buying-activity noun aimed at Chinese consumer commerce, but the bet leans on one platform owning the category rather than a dispersed trade adopting it.
What a .daigou domain is
.daigou is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody is chasing .daigou today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .daigou domain extension real yet?
.daigou 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 .daigou domain?
You can’t yet. A .daigou 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 .daigou was .abogado, delegated on 15 October 2014.
Is .daigou a real TLD?
Not yet. .daigou is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .daigou 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
“.daigou · Digital Commerce · “Personal shoppers bridging markets across borders.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Daigou is a real, named industry — overseas personal shoppers buying goods for Chinese consumers — so the string maps to genuine economic activity, but the practitioners are largely individuals who transact through Chinese social and chat platforms rather than standalone websites, and much of the trade sits in a regulatory gray zone that discourages a permanent branded web identity. By analogy with pinyin and China-targeted new gTLDs, which have tended to see speculative registration waves and weak sustained primary-identity use, real end-use here would likely be thinner still given the audience's app-centric habits (analogy, not measured data). Mainland hosting also depends on Chinese regulatory accreditation of the TLD, a common friction for China-focused strings (stated qualitatively; specifics unknown). Main market uncertainty: whether legitimized cross-border commerce businesses — platforms, forwarders, agencies — would adopt a term associated with the informal gray-market channel as their brand, or avoid it. This lands in the 10-29 band: memorable and industry-specific but rarely a serious primary identity; it is not in 30-49 because there is little reason to expect volume registrations from an app-native, partly informal seller base, and not in 1-9 because the industry is real and a handful of generic-keyword addresses could find buyers.