.无人机
Is .无人机 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .无人机, 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 word-for-drone web address; the drone industry is real, but Chinese firms rarely make such addresses their main online home.
Chinese drone makers, dealers, training schools, and hobbyist media wanting a keyword address in their own script; more realistically, defensive registrants and speculators betting on China's drone boom.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“drone”, A-label xn--gmq277cy3a). Their catalog line: “Eyes in the sky, guided from below.”
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 exactly: a plain Chinese-script generic noun for a hardware device category, sold as the namespace where Chinese-market makers, retailers and service shops of that device put their primary identity, and it only works if the Chinese-language segment of that category is big enough to sustain its own registry.
Also a Chinese generic product-category noun aimed at manufacturers and sellers of one physical device class, though it names a mature, brand-dominated goods category rather than an emerging technology whose category vocabulary is still being claimed.
A CJK generic noun for a class of electronic hardware whose registrants would be device makers and dealers, but it is an umbrella-of-many-products word rather than one tight device category, so the identity it confers is retail-shelf rather than product-specific.
What a .无人机 domain is
.无人机 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody is chasing .无人机 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .无人机 domain extension real yet?
.无人机 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 .无人机 domain?
You can’t yet. A .无人机 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 .无人机 was .手机, delegated on 17 June 2014.
Is .无人机 a real TLD?
Not yet. .无人机 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .无人机 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
“.无人机 (drone) · Tech & Energy · “Eyes in the sky, guided from below.””Journey To The West Corporation
- China's drone sector is genuinely large and growing, so the underlying keyword has real commercial resonance in-language. But by analogy with existing Chinese-script IDN gTLDs (e.g. .在线, .网店-type product/keyword strings), such TLDs have historically drawn registrations that are largely defensive or speculative, with very few serious businesses using them as primary identities — Chinese firms overwhelmingly anchor on .com or .cn, and input/search norms plus URL-sharing habits work against IDN suffixes. A narrow product-category string compounds this: it names one product class, not a brandable category, so even a best-fit buyer treats it as a redirect or marketing pointer at most. The applicant is a portfolio filer of a published 323 submitted strings, which suggests broad speculative coverage rather than an industry-anchored registry push; that is an analogy-based read on adoption support, not a judgment of the applicant. This lands in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: above 1-9 because a real, growing industry gives it some registration and event-driven demand; below 30-49 because there is little evidence, by analogy, that Chinese-script keyword TLDs achieve volume registrations or any meaningful brand signal. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese platform and browser ecosystems (WeChat, Baidu, mobile keyboards) meaningfully improve IDN TLD usability in the next 5 years, which could lift in-language keyword suffixes generally.