.sample
Is .sample a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
A word that means "not the real thing" — handy for sample-order pages, but few serious projects would live at a .sample address.
manufacturers, wholesalers and sourcing platforms offering product-sample orders; secondarily music-sample libraries and marketing teams running free-sample promotions
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The first piece, before the big order.”
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: a thin, singular English marketing-utility noun with no industry vertical and no registrant who would put a primary identity on it, sold instead as a campaign or secondary address for brands running offers.
Same underlying commercial premise of try-it-at-no-cost as the hook, played as a broad meaning-soft common word whose value is marketing pull rather than any defined registrant category.
Another no-charge giveaway word aimed at promotional usage rather than an occupation or community base, though its language-specific audience narrows the buyer pool in a way .sample's plain English does not.
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