.求职
Is .求职 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .求职, 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 for "job hunting" — a niche keyword ending that recruitment sites might register, but rarely use as their real web address.
Chinese-language recruitment platforms, HR and staffing agencies, campus career services, and resume/coaching sites wanting a keyword-match Chinese web address.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“job hunting”, A-label xn--gswm14b). Their catalog line: “The search for the next opportunity.”
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 in every dimension: an open, generic Chinese-script noun for the hiring/employment vertical, sold to the same Chinese-language job boards, recruiters and employers, and depending on the same premise that Chinese users will type an IDN address at all — it is simply the employer-side word for what 求职 says from the candidate side.
Same category of bet — an undifferentiated employment-vertical generic that job boards, staffing firms and corporate hiring pages would put their primary identity on — but priced against the Latin-script global market rather than resting on Chinese IDN adoption.
The same structural wager as the target minus the sector: a plain Chinese-script consumer-category noun run as an open registry, whose success or failure turns almost entirely on whether Chinese-language users adopt native-script TLDs rather than on anything specific to the vertical.
What a .求职 domain is
.求职 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 .求职 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .求职 domain extension real yet?
.求职 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 .求职 domain?
You can’t yet. A .求职 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 .求职 was .招聘, delegated on 24 January 2018.
Is .求职 a real TLD?
Not yet. .求职 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .求职 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
“.求职 (job hunting) · Education & Career · “The search for the next opportunity.””Journey To The West Corporation
- By analogy with existing Chinese-script gTLDs, registration volume when it appears tends to be defensive or speculative rather than primary-identity use: Chinese users overwhelmingly reach services through apps, super-app ecosystems, and search rather than typed URLs, and typing an IDN suffix requires an input-method switch that suppresses direct navigation. The job-hunting category in China is dominated by a small set of entrenched platforms with strong existing brands on conventional endings, so the best-fit buyers have little incentive to migrate identity to a keyword suffix; smaller agencies may buy for signage or redirect use. In-country usability also depends qualitatively on registry licensing and universal-acceptance support across Chinese browsers and messaging apps, which by analogy with prior IDN launches is uneven. The applicant's large multi-string portfolio (323 strings, 69 Chinese-script IDNs per the verified facts) is consistent with a breadth strategy, which by analogy tends to mean thinner per-TLD marketing and registrar push. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese platform and browser acceptance of IDN suffixes improves enough in the next 5 years to make any Chinese-script ending a credible primary identity. This sits in the 10-29 band: it is above the 1-9 floor because a real, large job-seeking market exists and keyword-match registrations plausibly happen, but below 30-49 because sustained volume demand and any meaningful brand signal or aftermarket are doubtful given IDN navigation habits.