.外卖
Is .外卖 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
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.
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