.家居
Is .家居 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .家居, 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-character address for home-furnishing brands; the industry is huge, but Chinese firms rarely build on Chinese-script domains.
chinese home-furnishing and furniture retailers, interior-design studios, and smart-home brands wanting a Chinese-language web identity, plus a thin layer of defensive brand registrants
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“home furnishing”, A-label xn--fctwm). Their catalog line: “Everything that makes a house a home.”
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.
Identical bet: a plain Chinese-script generic noun for a household-goods retail vertical, sold to the same Chinese merchant base on the premise that a native-script category namespace beats a .cn/.com second-level label.
Same structure and buyer — a Chinese-script generic consumer-goods trade noun where retailers in one showroom-and-catalog category would put their primary identity — differing only in which vertical.
The same industry-category-noun bet for literally the same trade (furnishings retailers and makers), but placed in ASCII for an English-language market, so it carries none of the native-script adoption premise the target depends on.
What a .家居 domain is
.家居 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 .家居 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .家居 domain extension real yet?
.家居 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 .家居 domain?
You can’t yet. A .家居 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 .家居 was .家電, delegated on 25 March 2016.
Is .家居 a real TLD?
Not yet. .家居 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .家居 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
“.家居 (home furnishing) · Wellness & Lifestyle · “Everything that makes a house a home.””Journey To The West Corporation
- China's home-furnishing sector is a large, real vertical, but by analogy with existing Chinese-script IDN TLDs (flagged as analogy: .中国, .公司, .网络 and vertical strings like .商城), genuine primary-identity use has stayed marginal — Chinese commerce discovery runs through platforms and apps (Tmall, JD, WeChat/Douyin storefronts), and businesses that do run sites default to .com or .cn in ASCII. That places .家居 in the vanity/narrow 10-29 band: it is not 30-49 because there is little evidence, even by analogy, of volume registration or a functioning aftermarket for vertical Chinese IDNs; it is above 1-9 because the string cleanly names a major industry and can attract some defensive and marketing registrations over the next 5 years. The applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings including 69 Chinese-script IDNs, which is stated neutrally and suggests broad-catalog distribution rather than a single-vertical adoption push. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese-script domains shift from symbolic/defensive assets to working primary identities within 5 years — a registrar- or policy-driven push could move that, but current dynamics point against it.