.miniapp
Is .miniapp a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
Mini apps live inside super-apps, not on the open web, so few builders need this address; niche marketing-page use at best.
developers and studios building mini apps for super-app ecosystems (WeChat-style platforms), largely in China, who want an open-web landing or marketing page for a product whose real distribution happens inside a host platform
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “A full app experience, without the download.”
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.
Identical bet one notch broader: a generic noun for a unit of software that anyone shipping software puts its primary identity on, betting the format name outlives any single platform.
Same shape of bet as .miniapp — naming a narrow, then-emerging software form factor and wagering it hardens into a durable category with many independent builders wanting the label.
Also a generic product-class noun sold to makers of that product class, but it is the settled industry-wide word aimed at vendor identity rather than a bet on a specific new form factor catching on.
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“.miniapp · Digital Commerce · “A full app experience, without the download.””Journey To The West Corporation