.健身
Is .健身 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .健身, 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 web address meaning "fitness" — a nice label for gyms, but Chinese businesses rarely build their main site on such endings.
gyms, personal trainers, fitness apps, and wellness brands marketing to Chinese-language consumers, mostly in mainland China
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“fitness”, A-label xn--nyq113m). Their catalog line: “Strength and discipline, one rep at a time.”
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 wellness-category noun sold as an open namespace to Chinese-language health and body businesses, whose value depends on Chinese users treating a native-script category word as a credible primary address.
The identical category noun for the identical buyer — gyms, studios, trainers and equipment brands putting their primary identity on the name of their own industry — differing only in script and therefore in which language market has to adopt it.
Also a Chinese-script generic noun naming a local bricks-and-mortar service vertical, betting that small owner-operated Chinese businesses will re-anchor their identity on their trade's own word rather than a .cn or .com.
What a .健身 domain is
.健身 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody is chasing .健身 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .健身 domain extension real yet?
.健身 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 .健身 domain?
You can’t yet. A .健身 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 .健身 was .健康, delegated on 2 April 2015.
Is .健身 a real TLD?
Not yet. .健身 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .健身 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
“.健身 (fitness) · Wellness & Lifestyle · “Strength and discipline, one rep at a time.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Fitness is a genuinely large consumer sector in Chinese-speaking markets, so the string's meaning is clear and commercially relevant. But by analogy with existing Chinese-script IDN gTLDs (.公司, .网络, .在线 and peers), full-Han domains have seen thin genuine use over the past decade: Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor their primary identity on ASCII .com/.cn plus super-app presences (WeChat, Douyin, Meituan), and Han-script TLDs skew toward defensive or speculative registrations — an analogy, as I have no registration figures for this string. Mainland resolution and hosting also depend in practice on regulatory accreditation, which historically constrains IDN gTLD usability there (qualitative, no figures asserted). The applicant is a large portfolio filer (323 strings, 69 Chinese-script IDNs per the facts block), which suggests breadth-first rather than sector-deep channel investment; that is stated neutrally and informs adoption likelihood only. I place it in the 10-29 band: it is above 1-9 because a real, identifiable buyer group exists and some vanity/marketing registrations are plausible over 5 years, but below 30-49 because analogous Han-script TLDs have not shown volume registrations or meaningful primary-identity use, and there is little sign this string would break that pattern. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese businesses' web-address behavior shifts toward native-script domains at all within 5 years — if mainstream Chinese brands began using Han TLDs as primary identities, this string would justify a substantially higher score.