.sourcing
Is .sourcing a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
A legitimate but narrow B2B label for supplier-finding services; few firms would make it their main web address.
sourcing agents, procurement consultancies, and B2B supplier-discovery platforms, particularly in export-heavy manufacturing markets where "sourcing" is the literal service sold
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Finding the right supplier, anywhere in the world.”
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: an unowned gerund naming a B2B professional service, sold to the thousands of small firms who describe themselves by that activity and would hang their primary identity on it, with no single incumbent able to claim the word.
Same bet: a generic corporate-function gerund whose value rests on agencies and in-house teams in that function adopting it as their name, betting the function is big and self-identifying enough to sustain a registry.
Same bet on the procurement/supply-chain vocabulary being commercially ownable at the right of the dot, sold to the same B2B buyer, though it is a bare noun better suited to descriptive phrase names than to a firm's primary identity.
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“.sourcing · Trade & Logistics · “Finding the right supplier, anywhere in the world.””Journey To The West Corporation