.pcb

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

AI & tech
applicants
  • Journey To The West CorporationAnnounced
on the record since Aug 17, 2026 · updated Aug 17, 2026
AI score
22/ 100
Vanity and narrow

A niche label for circuit-board makers and hardware tinkerers; most will keep their main site elsewhere.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 17, 2026
AI score 22 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

PCB fabrication and assembly services, electronics design tool vendors, and hardware-hobbyist communities wanting a signal of circuit-board specialization

techCommerceInfrastructure
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 circuit board behind every device.”

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.

.connectorsstrong parallel
never delegated

Same bet: a narrow electronic-hardware component category noun whose only credible primary registrants are the makers, distributors and design engineers of that component, betting a supply-chain vertical is big enough to sustain its own namespace.

uncontested · scored 12* in 2012

.dwgmoderate
never delegated

Same bet on an insider technical acronym that is meaningless to the general public but instantly legible to the engineering/design trade that would put its identity on it.

uncontested · scored 12* in 2012

.partsmoderate
delegated 2014 · live

Same bet that a physical-components supply category can anchor identity for manufacturers and distributors, though it is a plain-English generic aimed at a much broader industrial buyer than a single specialist component class.

uncontested · scored 40* in 2012 · run by Sea Goodbye, LLC

* 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
.pcb · Tech & Electronics · “The circuit board behind every device.”
Journey To The West Corporation
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