.外卖
Is .外卖 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .外卖, 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
Means "food delivery" in Chinese; the sector is huge but lives inside apps, so few businesses would make this their main web address.
restaurants, delivery platforms, and marketers targeting Chinese-speaking consumers, mostly for campaign or defensive registrations rather than primary identities
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“food delivery”, A-label xn--5krr7k). Their catalog line: “Dinner, delivered to the door.”
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: an unadorned Chinese-script generic category noun for the eating-out trade, sold as primary identity to the same restaurant/food-service merchants, and it only works if Chinese-reading consumers will type and trust a right-of-dot Han string.
Also a plain Chinese-script industry-category noun in the food economy betting on in-script commercial identity, but it addresses producers and brands of a product class rather than a consumer-facing ordering service.
The nearest structural twin outside food: a Chinese-script generic word for a consumer transaction activity (not an entity or a company), whose registry case rests on the same wager that Han-script generics can carry mass-market retail traffic.
What a .外卖 domain is
.外卖 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 .外卖 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .外卖 domain extension real yet?
.外卖 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 .外卖 domain?
You can’t yet. A .外卖 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 .外卖 was .餐厅, delegated on 30 May 2015.
Is .外卖 a real TLD?
Not yet. .外卖 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .外卖 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
“.外卖 (food delivery) · Digital & Retail · “Dinner, delivered to the door.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29: the string is a high-recognition everyday commercial term in Chinese, but China's food-delivery economy is overwhelmingly app- and super-app-mediated — restaurants live inside platform ecosystems rather than on their own websites, so genuine primary-identity demand looks thin over the next 5 years. By analogy, Chinese-script commerce IDN TLDs (e.g. .公司, .商城, .在线-style strings) have seen weak real-world usage relative to ASCII .com/.cn defaults, and there is little sign that dynamic reverses; that analogy is the core of this judgment since I have no registration figures (unknown). It is not band 30-49 because volume or price-driven registration demand is doubtful, not just brand signal; it is not band 1-9 because the term is instantly legible to a very large language market and some marketing/QR-campaign and defensive registrations are plausible. Applicant facts (a Beijing portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings, 69 Chinese-script IDNs) suggest portfolio economics rather than a committed anchor adopter, which does not raise adoption likelihood. Main market uncertainty: whether any major delivery platform or restaurant-tech vendor adopts the TLD for consumer-facing campaigns, which could create a real, if narrow, usage base.