.批发
Is .批发 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .批发, 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-wholesale web address; the trade it names is huge, but Chinese firms rarely build their identity on domains like this.
wholesale suppliers, B2B trading companies, and bulk-goods marketplaces serving Chinese-language buyers, plus domain speculators betting on Chinese e-commerce keywords
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“wholesale”, A-label xn--oorx45a). Their catalog line: “Buying in bulk, selling to the trade.”
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 the same script: an open, generic Chinese commerce-channel noun that a small merchant puts its own name in front of to declare what kind of selling it does, betting that Chinese sellers will pay for a trade-descriptive address rather than a .com.
A plain generic Chinese retail-trade noun sold to the same buyer — independent merchants and trading companies wanting a native-script commercial identity — and it works or fails on exactly the same condition, that Chinese-script navigation gets real registrar and browser traction.
Also a generic Chinese-script commerce word aimed at sellers, but 'mall' frames the registrant as a marketplace or aggregator brand rather than a single link in the trade channel, so the primary-identity buyer skews larger and fewer.
What a .批发 domain is
.批发 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 .批发 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .批发 domain extension real yet?
.批发 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 .批发 domain?
You can’t yet. A .批发 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 .批发 was .网店, delegated on 2 December 2014.
Is .批发 a real TLD?
Not yet. .批发 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .批发 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
“.批发 (wholesale) · Trade & Industry · “Buying in bulk, selling to the trade.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string names a genuinely large market — Chinese bulk/B2B trade — but by analogy, Chinese-script commerce IDNs (.购物, .商城, .网店 and similar) have seen registrations driven by promotion and speculation with very little sustained primary-identity use, since Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor on ASCII .com/.cn and users discover suppliers through platforms and apps rather than typed domains. By analogy, wholesale trade in China is heavily intermediated by dominant platforms, which suppresses independent-site identity demand in exactly the segment this string targets. That places it in the 10-29 band: above 1-9 because the keyword is real, high-commercial-intent Chinese vocabulary with some defensive and speculative appeal, but below 30-49 because there is no visible path to volume registrations or a functioning aftermarket beyond event-driven interest. Main market uncertainty: whether in-China resolvability/licensing and registrar distribution materialize well enough for mainland businesses to use it at all, and whether platform-centric B2B discovery leaves any room for domain-based supplier identity.