.購物
Is .購物 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .購物 in its own right, as of 8 October 2026. Nawang Heli(Xiamen) Network Service Co., LTD. named .購物 as an IDN variant label of its .购物 application.
A traditional-Chinese "shopping" address: readable in Taiwan and Hong Kong, but merchants there rarely build on Chinese-script endings.
traditional-script Chinese merchants and e-commerce brands in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, plus registrars and portfolio holders bundling it with the simplified-script sibling
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.
It is the same generic Chinese-script shopping noun in the simplified variant — an identical bet that a whole-market retail activity word, not a brand, becomes the default commerce address for Chinese-reading buyers.
Another unowned Chinese-script commerce generic sold on the same premise: any merchant can put its primary storefront identity on a category word for 'marketplace', so value rests on open registrations at scale rather than on one company's name.
Same buyer and same script-led generic-retail bet, but it names the venue ('shop') rather than the act of shopping, so it targets individual storefronts more than the whole purchase journey.
What a .購物 domain is
.購物 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 .購物 in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .購物 domain extension real yet?
.購物 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 .購物 domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .購物 name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .購物 was .xn--g2xx48c, delegated on 16 January 2016.
Is .購物 a real TLD?
Not yet. .購物 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .購物 as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is the traditional-script form of the Chinese word for shopping, applied for as a variant of a simplified-script primary string (.购物) by Nawang Heli (Xiamen) Network Service Co., LTD., with no contention recorded. Its natural audience is merchants in traditional-script markets (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau), where business identity conventions lean heavily on ASCII endings and local country-code endings; by analogy with earlier Chinese-script generic gTLDs (meanings like online, website, shop), primary-identity use has been thin, demand has been promotion- and bundle-driven, and the aftermarket has been close to nonexistent — this is inference from analogy, not a figure. Why not 30-49: that band needs volume registrations or real price-driven demand, and traditional-script IDN gTLDs have shown even less uptake than their simplified-script counterparts (analogy), with no on-record category tag or applicant competition suggesting a contested, valued string. Why not 1-9: the word is a genuine, high-frequency commercial term, the script is used by tens of millions of readers (qualitative), and a variant tied to a simplified-script primary can be offered as a bundle, so some registrations and occasional defensive or novelty use are realistic within 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether variant-set bundling means .購物 is mostly a mirror of the simplified string (registrations counted, rarely resolved as a primary identity) or whether traditional-script e-commerce operators adopt it on its own merits; also whether mainland-oriented promotion spills into traditional-script markets at all.