.taichi

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

Nobody is chasing .taichi, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.

Culture
  • Journey To The WestAbandoned
on the record since Aug 17, 2026 · updated Oct 7, 2026
◈AI score
16/ 100
Vanity and narrow

A niche label for tai chi schools and wellness brands; charming to fans, but few serious businesses would make it their main address.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 17, 2026
AI score 16 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

tai chi schools, instructors, and retreat or wellness brands built around the practice, plus a thin tail of martial-arts content sites and hobbyist projects

CultureCommerceBrand
applicants
0 applications · 1 abandoned claim
Aug 17, 2026

xiyou.domains ↗

In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Slow-motion mastery of balance and breath.”

announced Aug 17, 2026 · abandoned Oct 7, 2026

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 · live43,901 domains · May 2026

Same bet almost exactly: an Eastern movement-and-wellness discipline whose name is a generic practice noun no one owns, sold to a long tail of independent instructors, studios and schools who would put their primary identity on it, and which only works if that dispersed practitioner base treats the practice name as its natural address.

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

See .yoga in Stats
.dancemoderate
delegated 2014 · live8,868 domains · May 2026

Also a taught bodily discipline sold to studios, teachers and class-goers rather than to a corporation, but it is a far broader umbrella activity than a single named form, so the registrant pool is bigger and less self-identified with one word.

uncontested · scored 40* in 2012 · run by United TLD Holdco Ltd.

See .dance in Stats
.fitnessmoderate
delegated 2014 · live13,948 domains · May 2026

Same commercial neighbourhood of wellness practitioners and studios buying a category word, but it is the umbrella retail category taichi sits inside rather than a specific named practice, so it competes on generic-keyword value instead of on a community's own name.

uncontested · scored 50* in 2012 · run by Brice Orchard, LLC

See .fitness in Stats

* A separate 2012-only read, time-locked to what was public that year. Different scale from this page’s score, so the two are not comparable.

What a .taichi domain is

.taichi 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 .taichi today. The applicants that claimed it are out.

Is the .taichi domain extension real yet?

.taichi 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 .taichi domain?

You can’t yet. A .taichi 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 .taichi was .yoga, delegated on 15 October 2014.

Is .taichi a real TLD?

Not yet. .taichi is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .taichi and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.

history
  1. Journey To The West · now abandonedOct 7, 2026

    Announced, but not on the ICANN Reveal Day list, 7 October 2026

    ICANN
  2. Journey To The West · first recordedAug 17, 2026
    Journey To The West Corporation
news & sources
ICANNICANN Reveal Day list, 7 October 2026
Oct 7, 2026
ICANN
Announcementxiyou.domains: published portfolio of 323 submitted gTLD applications
“.taichi · Martial & Strategy · “Slow-motion mastery of balance and breath.””
Journey To The West Corporation
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