.weiqi
Is .weiqi a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
A hobby-niche TLD for the game of Go; the small global community may register some, but few serious sites would make it their main address.
weiqi/Go clubs, teaching platforms, and online game servers, mostly in China and East Asia, plus hobbyist fan sites and player blogs worldwide
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “The ancient strategy game also known as Go.”
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: the uncontrolled proper name of one specific game, sold to the clubs, tournaments, teaching sites and online servers whose entire identity is that single game, with no company or federation owning the word.
Same structural bet on a single named discipline with a devoted but non-universal following anchored by federations and clubs, though it is a mass spectator sport rather than a niche mind game.
Same language-endonym bet — picking one linguistic community's word for a game that other communities call something else (go, baduk, igo), so the addressable market is capped by which name the player base actually types.
- Journey To The West Corporation · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.weiqi · Martial & Strategy · “The ancient strategy game also known as Go.””Journey To The West Corporation