.机票
Is .机票 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .机票, 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 "flight ticket": a narrow keyword suffix travel sellers might park defensively, but few would make their main web address.
Chinese online travel agencies, airline resellers, and ticketing platforms — mostly as a defensive or campaign registration alongside an ASCII .com/.cn primary identity
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“flight ticket”, A-label xn--nqvq81b). Their catalog line: “The ticket that starts every journey.”
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 literally the same bet in another language — the local-market generic noun for airline tickets, sold to that market's OTAs, consolidators and airlines on the premise that buyers search and identify in their own language rather than in English.
A non-English generic category noun for the flight-booking vertical, betting that a language community's travel-commerce sector will put its primary identity on its own word instead of a Latin/English equivalent.
Same structural bet — a plain simplified-Chinese consumer purchase-category noun whose whole thesis is Chinese-script domain adoption by an entire vertical's merchants — differing only in that it names a product category rather than a travel service.
What a .机票 domain is
.机票 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 .机票 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .机票 domain extension real yet?
.机票 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 .机票 domain?
You can’t yet. A .机票 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 .机票 was .passagens, delegated on 2 March 2016.
Is .机票 a real TLD?
Not yet. .机票 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .机票 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
“.机票 (flight ticket) · Digital & Retail · “The ticket that starts every journey.””Journey To The West Corporation
- This sits in the 10-29 band (vanity/narrow). By analogy, existing Chinese-script keyword TLDs have seen thin registration bases and almost no primary-identity use — established Chinese brands, including travel platforms, overwhelmingly build on ASCII .com/.cn, and Chinese users rarely type han-script URLs, with discovery flowing through superapps and search rather than the address bar (analogy, no figures). The string is a commodity product term, not a brandable category, so its plausible demand is defensive registrations and SEO-style parking by ticket sellers rather than serious end-use. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no analogous evidence of volume registrations for single-product Chinese IDN keywords, and not in the 1-9 band because a real, if shallow, defensive market among travel merchants plausibly exists. Applicant facts: Journey To The West Corporation announced a published portfolio of 323 submitted strings including 69 Chinese-script IDNs — a portfolio play, which informs adoption expectations only neutrally. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese-language IDN usage habits shift over the next 5 years (browser/superapp surfacing of han-script domains), which could lift keyword IDNs generally.