.茶叶
Is .茶叶 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .茶叶, 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 "tea leaves" — a nice label for tea sellers, but most will still choose .cn or .com for their main site.
Chinese tea growers, wholesalers, tea shops, and tea-culture brands who want a fully Chinese-script web address for marketing or campaign use.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“tea leaves”, A-label xn--qpr921i). Their catalog line: “The leaf behind China's oldest daily ritual.”
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: a single agricultural beverage commodity used as an open generic vertical, sold to growers, traders, roasters/blenders and retail shops who put their primary identity on the crop they trade in.
Same bet in the same script and market: a Chinese-language IDN generic consumable-goods category noun betting that domestic food-and-drink businesses will register and navigate in Chinese rather than ASCII.
Also a single-drink commodity generic aimed at an entire producer-to-retailer trade, though it leans on appellation/prestige identity rather than the commodity-supply-chain framing tea shares with coffee.
What a .茶叶 domain is
.茶叶 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 .茶叶 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .茶叶 domain extension real yet?
.茶叶 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 .茶叶 domain?
You can’t yet. A .茶叶 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 .茶叶 was .coffee, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .茶叶 a real TLD?
Not yet. .茶叶 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .茶叶 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
“.茶叶 (tea leaves) · Agriculture & Food · “The leaf behind China's oldest daily ritual.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The Chinese tea industry is large and culturally central, so the string is semantically apt for a real buyer group. But by analogy with earlier Chinese-script IDN gTLDs (e.g. .在线, .网络, .公司), such strings have tended to attract price-driven or defensive registrations rather than primary-identity use — Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor on .cn or .com, and much of Chinese commerce now lives inside super-app ecosystems (WeChat, Taobao) rather than standalone domains, which further weakens demand; both points are analogy/qualitative, not figures. The string is also product-descriptive ('tea leaves') rather than a brandable category word, which by analogy with narrow product-term gTLDs caps aftermarket value. The applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings including 69 Chinese-script IDNs (verified), consistent with broad distribution ambitions but leaving per-string go-to-market unknown. Band 10-29: above 1-9 because a real, large industry maps to the term and some marketing/vanity use is plausible; below 30-49 because analogy suggests neither volume registrations nor a meaningful brand signal in a market that defaults to .cn/.com and off-domain platforms. Main market uncertainty: whether the TLD becomes usable and marketed inside mainland China at all — in-country licensing/accreditation status and registrar distribution are unknown, and without them the best-fit buyers effectively cannot adopt it.