.xiangqi
Is .xiangqi a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
A hobby address for Chinese chess sites and clubs; a real but tiny community, and most of it will stay on mainstream domains.
xiangqi clubs, federations, tournament organizers, teaching sites, and game apps serving the Chinese chess community worldwide, plus a small layer of enthusiasts wanting a themed personal or content site
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Chinese chess, a battlefield of the mind.”
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 proper name of one specific game, owned by nobody and generic inside its own world, sold to federations, clubs, tournaments and fan media who would put their primary identity on the sport's own word.
Same bet as a single named sport whose player base is concentrated in one cultural sphere rather than globally distributed, so the registry is betting on a heritage community's institutions and content sites rather than broad commercial demand.
Same bet in that the string is a sport's name in the community's own language rather than the English term, so it lives or dies on that specific linguistic-cultural population adopting it as their identity marker.
- Journey To The West Corporation · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.xiangqi · Martial & Strategy · “Chinese chess, a battlefield of the mind.””Journey To The West Corporation