.动漫
Is .动漫 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .动漫, 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 Chinese anime-culture domain with a big fandom behind it, but Chinese-script web addresses rarely become anyone's main online identity.
chinese-language anime and comics (dongman/ACG) studios, fan communities, convention organizers, and merch sellers wanting a culturally native label; secondarily brands registering defensively
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“anime”, A-label xn--6fr867d). Their catalog line: “Animation and comics, a culture of their own.”
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 in the same script and same market: a plain Chinese generic noun for a digital-entertainment content category, sold to the studios, platforms and fan sites of that category, and dependent on Chinese-language users accepting an IDN as a primary identity.
A Chinese-script generic category noun for the entertainment industry aimed at exactly the same content-producer and fan-community buyer pool; only difference is that it is the umbrella term while the target is one vertical inside it.
Also a native-CJK generic noun naming a content medium rather than a topic, betting that publishers and readers of that medium will adopt a category TLD, though it targets the Japanese market and a staid publishing trade rather than a fandom-driven one.
What a .动漫 domain is
.动漫 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 .动漫 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .动漫 domain extension real yet?
.动漫 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 .动漫 domain?
You can’t yet. A .动漫 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 .动漫 was .游戏, delegated on 23 October 2013.
Is .动漫 a real TLD?
Not yet. .动漫 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .动漫 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
“.动漫 (anime) · Media & Entertainment · “Animation and comics, a culture of their own.””Journey To The West Corporation
- China's dongman/ACG fandom is large and commercially active, but that audience lives on platforms (video sites, social apps) rather than standalone websites, and serious Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor identity on ASCII TLDs. By analogy (flagged as such), earlier Chinese-script IDN gTLDs saw registration activity dominated by speculation and defensive holdings with little sustained primary-identity use or aftermarket depth, and han-script domains face input friction plus mainland licensing requirements for in-country hosting. That places .动漫 in the 10-29 band: memorable and culturally resonant, not a serious default identity. It is not in 30-49 because there is no evidence of volume demand on genuine utility for culture-vertical Chinese IDNs, and not in 1-9 because the fandom is real and some community/brand registrations are plausible. Main market uncertainty: whether QR-code and in-app navigation in China ever makes typed-script irrelevance moot enough for han-script domains to gain genuine primary-identity traction.