.網絡
Is .網絡 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .網絡 in its own right, as of 8 October 2026. China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) named .網絡 as an IDN variant label of its .网络 application.
Traditional-Chinese twin of the 'network' domain; likely bundled with its simplified form and rarely a site's main identity.
traditional-Chinese-script registrants (Hong Kong, Macau, overseas Chinese communities) who already hold or want the simplified-form .网络 name and want the traditional spelling to resolve alongside it
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 bet almost exactly: the identical generic noun for "network" in Chinese script, differing only in script register (simplified 网络 vs traditional 網絡), selling the same undifferentiated web-category identity to Chinese-language registrants who want a native-script equivalent of a .net-style generic.
Also a plain, uncoined common noun meaning "network" put forward as a native-script internet generic for a whole language market — same bet that a language community will register its own word for the medium itself rather than a category of business.
Same shape of bet — a generic Chinese-script web noun aimed at any registrant wanting a native-script address — but "website" names the single object a registrant owns rather than the medium as a whole, so the identity it confers is narrower and more descriptive.
What a .網絡 domain is
.網絡 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .網絡 in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .網絡 domain extension real yet?
.網絡 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 .網絡 domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .網絡 name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .網絡 was .xn--io0a7i, delegated on 18 January 2014.
Is .網絡 a real TLD?
Not yet. .網絡 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .網絡 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 网络 ('network'), filed by CNNIC as a variant of its primary application for .xn--io0a7i (网络), per the verified-facts block; no category tag and zero contention are recorded. Under variant handling the traditional form is in practice an alias of the simplified one rather than an independently sold namespace, so by analogy its value is largely derivative: it adds script coverage for traditional-Chinese readers, not a separate brand. The qualitative track record of Chinese-language IDN generic TLDs is, by analogy to the earlier round, one of weak primary-identity use — registrants in Chinese-speaking markets have tended to keep ASCII .com/.cn-style identities and treat IDN TLDs as defensive or secondary — and the generic word 'network' is a descriptor, not a brand signal, which keeps the aftermarket thin. It is not in 30-49 because I see no basis for volume or price-driven demand distinct from its simplified twin, and the traditional-script constituency most likely to use it is smaller than the simplified one. It is not in 1-9 because a real, if small, Chinese-language IDN market exists, and bundling with the simplified form gives it an installed footing from day one rather than no market at all. Main market uncertainty: whether traditional-script users in Hong Kong/Macau and the diaspora adopt any Chinese IDN TLD as a primary identity over the next 5 years, or whether such names remain defensive aliases of ASCII domains.