.sanda

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

Culture
applicants
  • Journey To The West CorporationAnnounced
on the record since Aug 17, 2026 · updated Aug 17, 2026
AI score
12/ 100
Vanity and narrow

A niche address for Chinese kickboxing gyms and fans; the sport is real but small, so few serious sites would build on it.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 17, 2026
AI score 12 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

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)

CultureCommerceOther
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: “Chinese kickboxing, full-contact and fast.”

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.

.yogastrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live

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.

3 applicants contested it · scored 48* in 2012 · run by Minds + Machines Group Limited

.mmastrong parallel
delegated 2015 · live

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.

uncontested · scored 30* in 2012 · run by MMA IARD

.rugbymoderate
delegated 2017 · live

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.

3 applicants contested it · scored 30* in 2012 · run by World Rugby Strategic Developments Limited

* 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
.sanda · Martial & Strategy · “Chinese kickboxing, full-contact and fast.”
Journey To The West Corporation
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