.wok
Is .wok a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .wok, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
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.
What a .wok domain is
.wok is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody is chasing .wok today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .wok domain extension real yet?
.wok is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .wok domain?
You can’t yet. A .wok name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .wok was .pizza, delegated on 27 August 2014.
Is .wok a real TLD?
Not yet. .wok is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .wok and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.wok · Flagship · “The vessel at the heart of Chinese cooking.””Journey To The West Corporation
- By analogy with existing food-vertical TLDs such as .pizza, .kitchen, .recipes and .restaurant, single-dish/vessel strings attract modest, largely price-driven registrations and rarely become a restaurant's primary identity, which usually stays on .com or a local ccTLD plus delivery platforms and social handles. .wok is narrower still than those analogs: it names one cooking vessel and one cuisine style, though it benefits from the common commercial naming pattern of restaurants trading as 'Something Wok', which gives a small pool of natural exact-match registrants. Aftermarket value is likely thin, since the demand base is small independent food businesses with low willingness to pay, again reasoning from the observed outcomes of comparable food TLDs (analogy, not measured data). This places it in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: above the 1-9 floor because a real, identifiable buyer group exists worldwide, but below the 30-49 band because volume registrations and a credible brand signal for primary-identity use are unlikely within 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether small-restaurant registrants, who mostly anchor identity on delivery platforms and social media, will adopt any niche food TLD as a primary web address at meaningful rates.