.moq
Is .moq a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
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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.
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