.teapot

Is .teapot 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
13/ 100
Vanity and narrow

A charming but very narrow name for teaware shops and tea-culture sites; few serious projects would build their main identity on it.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 17, 2026
AI score 13 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

teaware sellers, tea-ceremony studios and tea-culture brands, plus hobbyist developers who want a wink at the HTTP "I'm a teapot" joke

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: “The vessel at the center of every tea ceremony.”

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.

.ketchupmoderate
never delegated

Same bet shape: a hyper-narrow singular consumer-object noun where the whole namespace rests on one tiny product category, so it only works if a small band of sellers treats that single word as their primary identity.

uncontested · scored 8* in 2012

.guitarsmoderate
delegated 2014 · live

A concrete physical-object category aimed at hobbyists plus specialty retail, betting that enthusiasts and boutique sellers will re-root their identity on the object word itself, which is exactly the wager .teapot makes on tea-ware.

uncontested · scored 30* in 2012 · run by Uniregistry, Corp.

.vodkaweak
delegated 2014 · live

Another single-item generic noun serving one narrow commerce vertical, but it sits on a large regulated global industry, so its identity pool is far deeper than the artisan-scale base a teapot string can draw on.

uncontested · scored 35* in 2012 · run by Minds + Machines Group 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
.teapot · Cuisine · “The vessel at the center of every tea ceremony.”
Journey To The West Corporation
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