.留学
Is .留学 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .留学, 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
For China's study-abroad agencies; the industry is real, but Chinese-script web addresses rarely become a company's main online identity.
study-abroad consultancies, education agents, and international-admissions marketers serving Chinese-speaking students and parents
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“study abroad”, A-label xn--48st71d). Their catalog line: “Education without borders.”
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: a Chinese-script generic noun naming a consumer-facing intermediary services vertical, whose primary registrants would be the agencies, portals and brokers in that industry competing for Chinese-language search and trust — it wins or dies on whether that trade adopts a category TLD as its identity rather than a .cn/.com brand.
Also an education category-generic aimed at one non-English language market's education-services industry rather than at global English demand, so it makes the same wager that a linguistic community will anchor its schooling vertical on its own word — but it sits under a single applicant's portal brand rather than an open trade.
The same generic education-activity noun that schools, tutors, test-prep firms and placement agents would put their primary identity on, differing mainly in that it bets on the undifferentiated global English market instead of one script community and covers study in general rather than the cross-border placement niche.
What a .留学 domain is
.留学 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody is chasing .留学 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .留学 domain extension real yet?
.留学 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 .留学 domain?
You can’t yet. A .留学 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 .留学 was .招聘, delegated on 24 January 2018.
Is .留学 a real TLD?
Not yet. .留学 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .留学 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
“.留学 (study abroad) · Education & Career · “Education without borders.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The underlying market is genuine: study-abroad consulting is a large, competitive service industry in China, and 留学 is the exact keyword those buyers advertise on. But by analogy with earlier Chinese-script keyword gTLDs (.在线, .中文网, .公司 and similar), Chinese IDN TLDs have tended to see speculative or defensive registration waves with little sustained primary-identity use — agencies overwhelmingly anchor on .com or .cn plus WeChat/Douyin presences, and Chinese-script domains face typing friction and inconsistent platform handling. The applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio applicant (323 submitted strings, 69 Chinese-script IDNs, per the facts block), which informs adoption only insofar as marketing attention will be spread across many strings. This places it in the 10-29 band: it is above 1-9 because a real, ad-hungry vertical exists and some keyword-marketing registrations are plausible, but below 30-49 because, judging by IDN precedent (analogy), even volume registration and a meaningful brand signal are doubtful. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese regulatory accreditation for in-country resolution and improving IDN support in browsers, search, and social platforms shift Chinese-script domains toward genuine primary-identity use within 5 years.