.宠物
Is .宠物 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .宠物, 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-"pet" web address; charming for pet businesses in China, but few would make it their main online identity.
pet-industry businesses in the Chinese-language market — pet shops, groomers, vet clinics, pet food and supplies brands, breeders, and pet-content communities seeking a keyword address in Chinese script.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“pet”, A-label xn--sbt234c). Their catalog line: “The companions that make a house a home.”
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: a plain Simplified-Chinese consumer-product category noun sold as a vertical namespace, where the whole thesis is that Chinese-language merchants in one retail category will put their primary storefront identity on the category word itself.
Literally the same generic category noun for the same vertical and the same buyer type (pet shops, clinics, breeders, brands adopting a category namespace); only the script and language market differ, not the kind of word or the job it does.
Another Chinese-script generic product-category noun betting on a mid-sized consumer vertical, though it is a single manufactured good rather than a broad lifestyle/interest category with a hobbyist as well as a commercial registrant base.
What a .宠物 domain is
.宠物 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 .宠物 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .宠物 domain extension real yet?
.宠物 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 .宠物 domain?
You can’t yet. A .宠物 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 .宠物 was .珠宝, delegated on 15 December 2015.
Is .宠物 a real TLD?
Not yet. .宠物 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .宠物 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
“.宠物 (pet) · Consumer Goods · “The companions that make a house a home.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow). China's pet economy is genuinely large and growing, so the semantic match is real, but by analogy with existing Chinese-script keyword TLDs (.公司, .网络, .商城 and peers), IDN gTLDs have seen registrations without meaningful primary-identity use — Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor on ASCII .com/.cn plus platform presences (WeChat, Douyin, Taobao storefronts), which is where pet commerce actually happens. Input friction (switching IMEs to type a domain), inconsistent rendering in apps, and the platform-centric shape of Chinese consumer discovery keep a niche keyword IDN from becoming a category standard; that analogy keeps it below band 30-49, while the real underlying pet market and plausible marketing/defensive registrations keep it above band 1-9. Aftermarket for Chinese IDN keyword domains has, by analogy, been thin and speculative rather than sustained. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese browsers, super-apps, and search will normalize seamless han-script domain handling in the next 5 years, which could unlock genuine end-use for high-affinity consumer keywords like this one.