.mahjong
Is .mahjong a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
A fun, memorable ending for mahjong clubs and game apps, but a small market where most serious sites will still choose mainstream domains.
mahjong game platforms, mobile-game studios, hobby clubs and community sites, plus teaching/tournament organizers in East Asia and diaspora communities
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round (flagship tier). Their catalog line: “The clatter of tiles at the heart of gathering.”
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.
Same bet: a single named game whose title is the community's own word, where the registrants are clubs, tournament circuits, teaching sites and game apps rather than one owner, and the gambling adjacency both supplies willing payers and invites regulatory friction.
Also a specific named tile/card-style game with parlor-and-hall culture plus an online-gaming operator tail, betting that a modest, mostly recreational player base plus real-money operators can carry a namespace built on one game's name.
A single named pastime with organized clubs, federations and a geographically concentrated but passionate following — same bet that a sport's own noun becomes the primary identity for its associations and communities — but it lacks the gambling/operator demand layer that gives mahjong and poker their commercial buyers.
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“.mahjong · Flagship · “The clatter of tiles at the heart of gathering.””Journey To The West Corporation