.装修
Is .装修 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
- Journey To The West Corporation
A Chinese word for home renovation; the trade is big, but Chinese-character web addresses rarely become a business's main identity.
Chinese home-renovation and interior-decoration companies, contractors, and design studios marketing to mainland consumers — mostly as a campaign or defensive registration rather than a primary identity.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“renovation”, A-label xn--8uqq99k). Their catalog line: “Turning empty space into home.”
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 as 装修 ("renovation/interior fit-out"): a plain Chinese-script generic noun for a fragmented, locally-transacted service trade, sold to thousands of small owner-operated firms who must be willing to put their primary identity on a CJK-script namespace rather than a .cn or .com.
Also an East Asian-script generic category noun anchored in the home/household spend cycle, sold to the merchant and supplier side of that vertical, though its buyers are retailers and manufacturers of a product category rather than contractors selling a labor service.
The identical category-and-buyer bet in Latin script — an unowned generic trade noun that building and fit-out firms would claim as their industry address — but it carries none of the IDN-adoption wager that is half of what has to be true for 装修 to work.
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