.moq
Is .moq a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .moq, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
Insider shorthand for "minimum order quantity" — meaningful to sourcing pros, too obscure to work as a real business address.
B2B sourcing and wholesale-trade players — supplier marketplaces, procurement SaaS, and manufacturers courting bulk buyers — who recognize MOQ as trade jargon
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The minimum order that starts a partnership.”
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: an insider three-letter acronym for a media-delivery method rather than a consumer word, whose value depends on an industry ecosystem of infrastructure and streaming companies adopting the jargon as their public identity.
Same bet in form and constituency — an open internet-standard acronym whose natural registrants are the implementers, tooling vendors and working-group-adjacent orgs living inside that spec, with essentially no mainstream pull.
Same bet of turning a short technical media-format token into a namespace, though it leans on decades of consumer file-extension familiarity that a freshly standardized transport acronym has not earned.
What a .moq domain is
.moq is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody is chasing .moq today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .moq domain extension real yet?
.moq is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .moq domain?
You can’t yet. A .moq name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .moq was .ott, delegated on 27 May 2016.
Is .moq a real TLD?
Not yet. .moq is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .moq and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.moq · Trade & Logistics · “The minimum order that starts a partnership.””Journey To The West Corporation
- MOQ is genuine, widely used jargon inside global sourcing and wholesale trade, but it is an attribute of a deal, not a name people build identities on — a supplier wants buyers on its .com, not a jargon suffix explaining order terms. By analogy (flagged as analogy), semantically adjacent commerce strings like .trade and .market saw registrations driven by low price rather than primary-identity use and developed thin aftermarkets; a narrower jargon string should underperform even those. I place it in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: above 1-9 because the term has real recognition among a defined professional group and a plausible micro-use (sourcing tools, MOQ calculators, supplier landing pages), but below 30-49 because there is no evident driver of volume registrations and the string carries near-zero brand signal outside procurement circles. Main market uncertainty: whether B2B marketplace platforms would adopt it for structured supplier storefronts, which is the only channel that could generate meaningful registration volume.