.半导体
Is .半导体 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .半导体, 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-script domain for the semiconductor industry; the sector is huge, but firms there rarely use such domains as a main address.
chinese semiconductor manufacturers, chip-industry suppliers, and industrial parks or trade bodies in China wanting a native-script defensive or promotional web identity
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“semiconductor”, A-label xn--tqq89g2tj). Their catalog line: “The material behind modern electronics.”
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 Han-script generic noun naming a hardware-manufacturing sector, sold to the makers, suppliers and distributors inside that industry, which only works if Chinese/Japanese-reading firms will hang their primary identity on a non-Latin category word.
Also a Han-script generic electronics product-category noun open to every vendor in the category, but it is a mass-consumer retail word rather than a B2B industrial-input term, so the registrant pool skews sellers and marketers instead of manufacturers and engineers.
Same structural bet — a broad Han-script industry-category noun that any producer or trader in that vertical could claim — differing mainly in that the sector is low-tech and enormous rather than narrow and capital-intensive.
What a .半导体 domain is
.半导体 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody is chasing .半导体 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .半导体 domain extension real yet?
.半导体 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 .半导体 domain?
You can’t yet. A .半导体 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 .半导体 was .家電, delegated on 25 March 2016.
Is .半导体 a real TLD?
Not yet. .半导体 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .半导体 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
“.半导体 (semiconductor) · Tech & Energy · “The material behind modern electronics.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The underlying industry is real and strategically prominent in China, but by analogy with existing Chinese-script industry-term TLDs (e.g. .公司, .网络, .在线), such strings have seen thin registration volume and very little primary-identity use — Chinese firms, especially internationally facing B2B chip companies, default to ASCII .com/.cn, and mobile/WeChat-centric discovery further reduces domain salience. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evidence, even by analogy, of volume- or price-driven registration demand for a narrow industrial-term IDN; it is above 1-9 because the sector's size and national-policy prominence make some defensive and promotional registrations by manufacturers, parks, and trade bodies plausible within 5 years. The applicant is a portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings including 69 Chinese-script IDNs, which informs a generic rather than industry-anchored launch posture; that is a neutral fact bearing on adoption. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese-script domain use in mainland business identity meaningfully improves over the next 5 years, which would lift all han-script IDNs including this one.