.电池
Is .电池 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .电池, 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
Chinese for "battery": a narrow product-word address that battery firms are unlikely to use as their real web identity.
battery, EV and energy-storage companies in the Chinese-speaking market, plus speculators betting on China's electrification wave; most would treat it as a defensive or marketing extra, not a primary address
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“battery”, A-label xn--btw71q). Their catalog line: “Stored power for an electrified world.”
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: a two-character everyday Simplified-Chinese noun for a manufactured hardware category, sold as an industry-wide namespace to Chinese-language makers, distributors and retailers of that device, and dependent on the same unproven premise that Chinese users will adopt and type a non-ASCII zone.
Also a CJK-script generic noun for a class of electrical goods aimed at the whole trade rather than one company, though it targets a different script market and sits on the finished-consumer-appliance side rather than the component/energy-storage side that 电池 occupies.
Structurally identical string type — Simplified-Chinese common noun naming a physical product category open to every vendor in it — but the buyer is a consumer fashion/luxury retail trade rather than an industrial supply chain, so the identity-holders and the adoption case differ.
What a .电池 domain is
.电池 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody is chasing .电池 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .电池 domain extension real yet?
.电池 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 .电池 domain?
You can’t yet. A .电池 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 .电池 was .手机, delegated on 17 June 2014.
Is .电池 a real TLD?
Not yet. .电池 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .电池 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
“.电池 (battery) · Tech & Energy · “Stored power for an electrified world.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29. China's battery and EV supply chain is a genuinely large industry, which keeps this above band 1-9: some defensive and promotional registrations by sector firms are plausible. It stays below band 30-49 because, by analogy with existing Chinese-script IDN TLDs (broad ones like .中国 and generic-word IDNs from the earlier expansion round), even well-backed IDNs have seen little primary-identity use — Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor on ASCII domains, and input, sharing, and email friction suppress everyday use; a single-product noun narrows that further. This is a portfolio application (stated applicant facts noted neutrally), which by analogy with large portfolio strings tends toward speculative supply rather than organic category demand. Main market uncertainty: whether China's electrification boom plus domestic IDN promotion could push sector firms toward Chinese-script addresses at meaningful scale within 5 years — that would be the upside case.