.madein

Is .madein 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
14/ 100
Vanity and narrow

"Made in" needs the place name after it, so names on .madein read backwards; a novelty buy, rarely a serious web address.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 17, 2026
AI score 14 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

manufacturers, exporters, and country-of-origin marketing campaigns who want provenance branding — though the string forces the origin word before the dot, where it reads in the wrong order

CommerceBrandPlacesCulture
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. Their catalog line: “The mark of origin behind global manufacturing.”

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.

.organicstrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live

Same bet: a generic attribute-claim word that only has value if the registry polices who may assert it, sold to producers and exporters who want a verifiable credential baked into their name rather than a brand.

uncontested · scored 40* in 2012 · run by Afilias plc

.halalmoderate
never delegated

Also a certification-label TLD whose worth rests entirely on an external attestation regime and on trade/export buyers using it as a compliance mark, though the claim is doctrinal eligibility rather than place of manufacture.

uncontested · scored 45* in 2012

.swissmoderate
delegated 2015 · live

The purest 2012 country-of-origin-as-quality-mark play, provenance signaling for manufacturers gated by eligibility, but it is one nation's own name where .madein is a portable template any origin could fill.

2 applicants contested it · scored 50* in 2012 · run by Swiss Confederation

* 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
.madein · Trade & Logistics · “The mark of origin behind global manufacturing.”
Journey To The West Corporation
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