.vendor
Is .vendor a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
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A generic B2B word few sellers would brand around; expect cheap, low-stakes registrations and little resale demand.
B2B marketplaces, procurement and vendor-management platforms, and individual sellers or suppliers wanting a role-labeled web address for storefronts or supplier portals
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The seller at the other end of the deal.”
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 exactly: an open, singular, generic role-noun for the seller side of a transaction, betting that businesses defined by selling will put their primary identity on the role rather than on their category or brand.
Same B2B procurement-side generic, sold to the same buyer (a company that supplies goods to other companies), but it names the function/goods rather than the actor, so identity sits one step further from the registrant.
Also a generic occupational-role noun whose registrants are intermediaries claiming a trade identity, but it carries a narrower finance/insurance gravity than .vendor's open commercial-seller framing.
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“.vendor · Trade & Logistics · “The seller at the other end of the deal.””Journey To The West Corporation