.非遗
Is .非遗 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .非遗, 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 well-known Chinese shorthand for cultural heritage, but few projects would make it their main web address; expect thin, symbolic use.
chinese cultural-heritage institutions, government heritage programs, museums, and craft artisans promoting intangible-heritage (非遗) projects, plus registrars selling to that state-adjacent cultural sector
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“intangible heritage”, A-label xn--dc4a91l). Their catalog line: “Culture and craft, passed down and protected.”
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 Chinese-script generic category noun naming a state-sanctioned, non-commercial sector, sold to institutionally credentialed registrants who adopt it as a badge of legitimacy rather than as commercial real estate.
Same bet in that the string is lifted straight from official PRC policy vocabulary, so the namespace only works if a cultural/government authority blesses it and eligibility is gated to officially recognized bodies — value comes from endorsement, not open demand.
Similar shape — a Chinese-script mission-sector noun whose registrants are verified public-benefit organizations — but its buyer base is fundraising-driven charities rather than heritage bearers and custodial institutions, and its demand is broad-commercial where the target's is narrow and credential-bound.
What a .非遗 domain is
.非遗 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 .非遗 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .非遗 domain extension real yet?
.非遗 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 .非遗 domain?
You can’t yet. A .非遗 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 .非遗 was .公益, delegated on 17 December 2013.
Is .非遗 a real TLD?
Not yet. .非遗 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .非遗 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
“.非遗 (intangible heritage) · Culture & Civic · “Culture and craft, passed down and protected.””Journey To The West Corporation
- 非遗 is a genuinely recognizable abbreviation in mainland China for intangible cultural heritage, with a real constituency of museums, local heritage offices, and artisans, so the string has authentic meaning to its market. But by analogy with existing Chinese-script IDN TLDs — which broadly show weak primary-identity adoption, with Chinese institutions defaulting to .cn/.com ASCII domains and IDN registrations serving mostly defensive or promotional roles — genuine primary-identity use here is likely to stay rare over the next 5 years. Resolvability and hosting inside China also depend on domestic regulatory licensing, and the heritage sector skews toward government-run sites on established namespaces, capping commercial demand; aftermarket value would likely be negligible (analogy, no figures known). That places it in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: above 1-9 because a real, culturally salient buyer group exists and campaign-style use is plausible, but below 30-49 because there is no evident path to volume registrations or a meaningful brand signal. Main market uncertainty: whether state-backed heritage programs would adopt an IDN TLD as an official channel, which is the one dynamic that could lift it into niche-standard territory.