.服装
Is .服装 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .服装, 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 word for "clothing": the industry is huge, but Chinese businesses rarely use Chinese-character web addresses as their main identity.
Chinese apparel manufacturers, wholesalers, and garment-trade portals — plus defensive registrations by fashion brands selling into China
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“clothing”, A-label xn--dpvo46e). Their catalog line: “What the world wears, often made here.”
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.
A Chinese-script generic noun for the same apparel/fashion industry, sold to the same buyer (Chinese clothing brands and merchants putting their primary identity on a category word) and resting on the same precondition that Chinese-script addresses get typed and trusted at all.
Structurally the identical bet one vertical over: an unowned Chinese-script generic consumer-goods category noun pitched as the industry's home namespace, with the same registrant profile of merchants and the same dependence on IDN adoption rather than on any brand equity.
The literal semantic twin and the same category-namespace bet for apparel sellers, but priced against an English-typing market where ASCII adoption was already proven, so the make-or-break variable is different even though the word is doing the same job.
What a .服装 domain is
.服装 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 .服装 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .服装 domain extension real yet?
.服装 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 .服装 domain?
You can’t yet. A .服装 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 .服装 was .时尚, delegated on 27 March 2015.
Is .服装 a real TLD?
Not yet. .服装 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .服装 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
“.服装 (clothing) · Consumer Goods · “What the world wears, often made here.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string names one of China's largest real industries, so the addressable buyer pool is genuine. But by analogy (flagged as analogy), Chinese-script generic IDN TLDs such as .公司, .网络, and .在线 have seen registrations driven by promotion or defense rather than sustained primary-identity use — Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor identity on .com/.cn in ASCII, or on WeChat/Taobao/Douyin presences rather than domains at all. Input friction for han-character URLs and app-centric discovery in China compress end-use utility over the next 5 years. I place it in the 10-29 band: not 30-49 because analogous Chinese IDN generics have not shown the volume-or-price registration base and brand signal that band implies; not 1-9 because the sector is real and some portal, trade-fair, and defensive demand is plausible. Main market uncertainty: whether MIIT-side accessibility (licensing for use inside China) and any renewed state push for IDN adoption meaningfully changes Chinese-business willingness to use han-script domains as primary identities.