.porcelain
Is .porcelain a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .porcelain, 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
A pretty but narrow craft label: porcelain sellers and studios may register it, but few will make it their main address.
ceramic artists, porcelain studios and dealers, tableware and sanitary-ware manufacturers, and craft marketplaces wanting a descriptive product label; secondarily Chinese ceramics exporters branding toward English-speaking buyers
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “China's namesake export, fired to perfection.”
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 almost exactly: a generic material noun that doubles as a trade and a product category, sold to fabricators, installers and specialty retailers who would put their whole identity on the material they work in.
A home-goods product-category noun whose registrants are makers and specialty retailers with an existing .com — it needs the same thing to be true, that a vertical of small merchants will re-identify around the category word rather than their brand.
Also a raw-material noun carrying a craft/luxury retail trade, betting that dealers and artisans in a prestige material adopt the material itself as their address, though the ticket size and margin per registrant are far higher than porcelain's.
What a .porcelain domain is
.porcelain is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody is chasing .porcelain today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .porcelain domain extension real yet?
.porcelain 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 .porcelain domain?
You can’t yet. A .porcelain 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 .porcelain was .glass, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .porcelain a real TLD?
Not yet. .porcelain is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .porcelain 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
“.porcelain · Craft & Art · “China's namesake export, fired to perfection.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow): the string is a long, single-product English noun serving a small artisan-plus-manufacturing niche, and by analogy with earlier product-specific TLDs such as .jewelry, .diamonds, and .furniture — which saw thin registration bases and little primary-identity use — .porcelain is unlikely to become a namespace serious brands lead with over the next 5 years. It is not band 30-49 because there is no evident volume or price-driven registration engine for so specific a product word, and not band 1-9 because a real global industry (tableware, art ceramics, bathroom fixtures, collectors) exists and some studios and dealers plausibly want a descriptive address. The applicant is a large-portfolio applicant (323 submitted strings per the verified facts), a neutral fact suggesting broad speculative coverage rather than a committed vertical registry push, which tempers adoption expectations. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese ceramics exporters — the catalog's own framing — would adopt an English-word TLD for outbound branding rather than established .com or Chinese-market channels; meaningful uptake there could lift it toward the top of the band.