.名片
Is .名片 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .名片 in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Internet DotTrademark Organisation Limited named .名片 as the replacement string of its .trademark application.
A Chinese "business card" ending that could host personal contact pages, but Chinese-script endings rarely become serious identities.
Chinese-speaking professionals and small businesses wanting a personal or company contact page under a "business card" ending, plus digital-card and networking platforms that might issue addresses in bulk
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 utility noun (网址, "web address") that names the identity-carrying object itself and is sold open to any Chinese-reading person or SMB who wants the address to state what it is — exactly 名片's pitch of "your card, in your own script."
Also a generic Chinese-script noun for the web-presence artifact (网站, "website"), with the same mass-market registrant pool and the same dependency — that Chinese users will type and trust a non-ASCII right-hand side at all — rather than on any brand, community or industry.
Same shape of bet — an everyday Chinese generic (公司, "company") that a registrant puts its primary identity on, in Chinese script, with no gatekeeping — but it is an institutional self-label rather than 名片's personal-presentation artifact, so the buyer skews corporate instead of individual.
What a .名片 domain is
.名片 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .名片 in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .名片 domain extension real yet?
.名片 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 .名片 domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .名片 name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .名片 was .xn--ses554g, delegated on 10 April 2014.
Is .名片 a real TLD?
Not yet. .名片 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .名片 as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Internet DotTrademark Organisation Limited · first recordedICANN
“IDOL2621T-T43818 · Internet DotTrademark Organisation Limited · replacement string of .trademark”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string 名片 means "business card" in Chinese, so the natural use is a personal or company contact page — a Chinese-script analogue to the personal-identity endings in Latin script, which by analogy have seen modest primary-identity use and thin aftermarkets. By analogy, Chinese-script generic endings from the earlier round have generally struggled to become default identities: typing a Chinese-script ending is awkward on many keyboards, email and app support for internationalized endings has been uneven, and Chinese users have tended to reach businesses through platform accounts and mini-programs rather than typed web addresses. On the record this string is a replacement string tied to a .trademark application by Internet DotTrademark Organisation Limited, an applicant with an existing Chinese-script trademark-themed portfolio; that is a neutral fact that suggests a registry familiar with the Chinese IDN channel, which modestly raises the odds of distribution but does not change the demand picture. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evidence (and no strong analogy) of volume registrations on price or of a meaningful brand signal — a "business card" ending adds little credibility to a serious project, and the semantic fit is for throwaway personal pages, not primary identities. It is not in the 1-9 band because a plausible, if narrow, niche exists: a digital-card or networking platform could issue addresses under it in bulk, and the meaning is instantly understood by the target audience. Registration counts, pricing, and operator plans are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether any Chinese digital-business-card or networking platform would adopt it as a bundled identity layer, which is the only path by analogy to sustained use rather than scattered vanity registrations.