.wok
Is .wok a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
A fun label for wok restaurants and Asian food brands, but too narrow to become the web address serious food businesses build on.
small wok and Asian-cuisine restaurants, takeaway chains with "wok" in their trading name, food-culture creators, and cookware or recipe brands wanting a playful memorable address
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round (flagship tier). Their catalog line: “The vessel at the heart of Chinese cooking.”
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: a single narrow food-word used as metonym for an eatery type, sold to independent takeaways and small chains that would hang their whole identity on the dish/implement rather than on the generic "restaurant" category.
Same dual-sense bet as .wok — a physical cooking object/place noun that has to serve both cookware/appliance retail and food-business identity — but it is a far broader, higher-volume word with a home-improvement buyer .wok does not have.
Same food-and-preparation generic aimed at recipe/media/enthusiast registrants, but it is an activity word with no restaurant-signage use, so it lacks the primary-identity commercial buyer that carries .wok.
- Journey To The West Corporation · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.wok · Flagship · “The vessel at the heart of Chinese cooking.””Journey To The West Corporation