.咖啡
Is .咖啡 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .咖啡, 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-coffee web address; charming for a café, but Chinese businesses live in apps, not niche domains like this.
coffee shops, roasters, and beverage brands in Chinese-speaking markets wanting a memorable native-script address, plus a thin layer of speculators and defensive brand registrants
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“coffee”, A-label xn--bur6r). Their catalog line: “A global ritual, brewing fast in China.”
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: a plain Chinese-script generic consumable-goods noun sold to food-and-drink merchants who would have to be willing to put their primary identity in native script rather than Latin.
Literally the same category noun for the same buyer set (roasters, cafés, bean and equipment sellers), differing only in which language's version of the word the registry is betting on.
Also a Chinese-script generic consumer F&B noun aimed at small independent operators, but it names a venue class rather than a product, so the buyer is the shop itself rather than anyone in the coffee trade.
What a .咖啡 domain is
.咖啡 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 .咖啡 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .咖啡 domain extension real yet?
.咖啡 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 .咖啡 domain?
You can’t yet. A .咖啡 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 .咖啡 was .食品, delegated on 22 February 2016.
Is .咖啡 a real TLD?
Not yet. .咖啡 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .咖啡 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
“.咖啡 (coffee) · Agriculture & Food · “A global ritual, brewing fast in China.””Journey To The West Corporation
- By analogy, Chinese-script IDN gTLDs (e.g. .在线, .公司, .网络) have seen registration volumes dominated by speculation and promotions rather than sustained primary-identity use, and single-product IDNs have performed at the weak end of that group. China's coffee market is genuinely large and growing, but café and beverage brands in China overwhelmingly build their presence on WeChat, Meituan/Dianping and short-video platforms, with ASCII .com/.cn for whatever web identity remains — an inference from observed platform dynamics, not figures. Input friction for Han-script domains (URL bars, QR-first discovery, mixed-script email) further caps everyday use. That places .咖啡 in the 10-29 band: memorable and on-theme for a niche, above the 1-9 floor because a real registrant pool (cafés, roasters, defensive brand owners) plausibly exists, but below 30-49 because neither volume registrations nor a meaningful aftermarket is likely on this analogy. Main market uncertainty: whether any wave of native-script domain adoption among mainland small businesses emerges in the next 5 years, which would lift all Chinese IDNs including this one.