.sanda
Is .sanda a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .sanda, 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 niche address for Chinese kickboxing gyms and fans; the sport is real but small, so few serious sites would build on it.
sanda/sanshou gyms, promoters, fighters, and martial-arts media, mostly in China and diaspora combat-sports communities; incidentally, entities named Sanda (a place name in Japan and a personal name)
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Chinese kickboxing, full-contact and fast.”
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 single named practice discipline of non-Western origin whose registrants are the schools, instructors and federations that teach it, so it only works if a dispersed practitioner community treats the discipline word as its home rather than sticking with generic .com.
Same bet on a combat-sport vertical where gyms, fighters, promotions and sanctioning bodies are the primary identity buyers, differing only in that it packages the category as an acronym rather than the discipline's own name.
Same shape — one specific sport with a governing federation, clubs and national bodies as the natural registrants — but it bets on a mass spectator sport with existing commercial depth, whereas the target bets on a far narrower practitioner base.
What a .sanda domain is
.sanda 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 .sanda today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .sanda domain extension real yet?
.sanda 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 .sanda domain?
You can’t yet. A .sanda 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 .sanda was .yoga, delegated on 15 October 2014.
Is .sanda a real TLD?
Not yet. .sanda is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .sanda 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
“.sanda · Martial & Strategy · “Chinese kickboxing, full-contact and fast.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Sanda (sanshou) is a genuine combat sport with gyms and events worldwide, but it is far smaller in name recognition than yoga or general fitness, and by analogy even broad activity TLDs like .fitness or .yoga settled into modest registration bases with thin aftermarkets — a single-discipline string should land well below them (analogy, no figures asserted). The natural registrant pool is gyms, federations, and event promoters, most of whom in the sport's Chinese-language home market tend to favor established namespaces over new Latin-script gTLDs (analogy from broader new-gTLD adoption patterns in China, flagged as such). The string does pick up marginal incidental demand from Sanda as a place and personal name, which keeps it above the no-market floor. I place it in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: below 30-49 because there is no plausible volume or price-driven registration base, above 1-9 because a real, identifiable community exists that could put a handful of primary identities on it. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese combat-sports organizations would adopt a Latin-script niche TLD at all, or default to .com/.cn and platform accounts.