.livestream
Is .livestream a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
A long, descriptive ending for streamers that shorter rivals like .live and .tv already serve better; rarely a serious main address.
streamers, creators, and live-commerce sellers wanting a descriptive web address for a channel or show page, plus streaming tool vendors
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Selling and storytelling, broadcast live.”
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.
It is the identical bet one word shorter: an open generic noun for a delivery format sold to whoever broadcasts, with value resting on the assumption that creators and platforms will hang primary identity on the verb-noun of the medium rather than on a brand.
Same wager on the format-adjective of real-time media — an ownerless English word whose registry has to convince event producers, broadcasters and creators that the modifier describing what they do is a better address than a name they coined.
Also a generic media-category noun aimed at producers and platforms, but it names the stored asset rather than the live act, so it courts a broader and less identity-committed pool of registrants.
- Journey To The West Corporation · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.livestream · Digital Commerce · “Selling and storytelling, broadcast live.””Journey To The West Corporation