.dumpling

Is .dumpling a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?

Commerce
applicants
  • Journey To The West CorporationAnnounced
on the record since Aug 17, 2026 · updated Aug 17, 2026
AI score
19/ 100
Vanity and narrow

A cute address for dumpling shops and food projects, but too narrow for most brands to build on; expect novelty use and thin resale value.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 17, 2026
AI score 19 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

dumpling restaurants, frozen-food and CPG snack brands, food bloggers and pop-ups wanting a playful, food-forward web identity

CommerceCultureOther
applicants
1 on file
Journey To The West CorporationAnnounced
Aug 17, 2026

In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round (flagship tier). Their catalog line: “Comfort food shared at every table.”

closest 2012 bets
3 of 1,408

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.

.pizzastrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live

Same bet exactly: a single prepared dish used as an open category namespace, whose registrant pool is the long tail of independent shops, chains, recipe sites and suppliers that already put that dish's name in their brand.

4 applicants contested it · scored 48* in 2012 · run by Foggy Moon, LLC

.coffeemoderate
delegated 2013 · live

Also a one-consumable generic noun sold to merchants and enthusiasts rather than to one owner, but it sits on a much larger, more global commercial base than a single dish, so the same bet is made at far lower risk.

uncontested · scored 45* in 2012 · run by Trixy Cover, LLC

.vodkamoderate
delegated 2014 · live

Narrow single-product food/drink noun carrying a strong culture-of-origin association, betting that producers and sellers of that one item will re-identify under it - the same thin-vertical wager, just in drinks.

uncontested · scored 35* in 2012 · run by Minds + Machines Group Limited

* A separate 2012-only read, time-locked to what was public that year. Different scale from this page’s score — the two are not comparable.

history
  1. Journey To The West Corporation · first recordedAug 17, 2026
    Journey To The West Corporation
news & sources
Announcementxiyou.domains: published portfolio of 323 submitted gTLD applications
.dumpling · Flagship · “Comfort food shared at every table.”
Journey To The West Corporation
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