.valve

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

Infrastructure
applicants
  • Journey To The West CorporationAnnounced
on the record since Aug 17, 2026 · updated Aug 17, 2026
AI score
22/ 100
Vanity and narrow

A narrow industrial word; valve and flow-control firms mostly stay on .com, so demand looks thin and specialist.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 17, 2026
AI score 22 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

industrial valve and flow-control manufacturers, distributors, and engineering suppliers; a secondary fringe of fan or commentary sites around the well-known game company sharing the name

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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: “Controlling flow, one turn at a time.”

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.

.connectorsstrong parallel
never delegated

Same bet almost exactly: a narrow, unglamorous industrial component noun whose only plausible registrants are manufacturers, distributors and spec-sheet publishers rather than consumers, so it lives or dies on B2B supply-chain adoption rather than public search demand.

uncontested · scored 12* in 2012

.tiresstrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live

A single physical part category with a large replacement/aftermarket trade behind it, wagering that the makers and resellers of one component will put their primary identity on the component itself.

3 applicants contested it · scored 35* in 2012 · run by Dog Edge, LLC

.partsmoderate
delegated 2014 · live

Same registrant class and same industrial-supply logic, but it is the umbrella noun covering every component rather than one specialist component, so it bets on aggregators and marketplaces where .valve bets on a single trade.

uncontested · scored 40* in 2012 · run by Sea Goodbye, LLC

* 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
.valve · Manufacturing & Materials · “Controlling flow, one turn at a time.”
Journey To The West Corporation
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