.出口
Is .出口 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .出口, 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 word for "export" — but exporters sell to foreign buyers who can't type Chinese script, so few would make it their main address.
chinese exporters, cross-border trade firms, and sourcing platforms wanting a Chinese-language address for domestic-facing trade marketing
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“export”, A-label xn--79q79b). Their catalog line: “Made in China, shipped everywhere.”
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.
Both are plain Chinese-script generic commerce nouns sold to Chinese businesses as their primary trading identity, so both live or die on the same premise: that Han-script IDN adoption is real and that merchants will anchor a commercial vertical on a native-language category word.
Same bet shape — an unowned Chinese-script generic naming a commercial activity rather than a company or a place, with a registry counting on volume from a broad, undifferentiated pool of Chinese commercial registrants.
Closest on the function axis: a single Chinese-script noun for a business function performed by firms (hiring, as export is trading), targeting corporate registrants and intermediary platforms rather than consumers, though its vertical has none of the import/export trade's cross-border stakes.
What a .出口 domain is
.出口 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 .出口 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .出口 domain extension real yet?
.出口 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 .出口 domain?
You can’t yet. A .出口 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 .出口 was .商城, delegated on 31 March 2014.
Is .出口 a real TLD?
Not yet. .出口 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .出口 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
“.出口 (export) · Trade & Industry · “Made in China, shipped everywhere.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string 出口 is a common Chinese word meaning 'export' (and in everyday use, 'exit'), which makes it semantically ambiguous as a trade label. By analogy, existing Chinese-script IDN TLDs for business terms have seen registrations driven by defensive and speculative purchases rather than sustained primary-identity use, with Chinese firms defaulting to legacy ASCII namespaces — I lack figures, so this is analogy, not data. The structural problem is audience mismatch: an exporter's customers are largely outside the Chinese-script world and cannot readily type or trust a han-character address, while domestic buyers are not the target of an 'export' identity. Regulatory acceptance and registrar distribution inside China have historically been a gating dynamic for new TLD usability there (qualitative, from analogy with prior Chinese IDN launches). This lands it in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: above 1-9 because China's export economy is vast and some defensive or campaign registrations are plausible, but below 30-49 because there is no evident path to volume registrations or a meaningful aftermarket, and primary-identity use would need constant explaining. Main market uncertainty: whether in-China distribution and any government or industry promotion of Chinese-script trade namespaces could create domestic-facing demand I am not crediting.