.体育
Is .体育 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .体育, 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-"sports" ending that reads clearly but is unlikely to become how Chinese sports sites actually name themselves.
Chinese-language sports clubs, fitness brands, event promoters, and sports-media sites wanting a fully Chinese web address; defensive registrants among larger sports platforms.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“sports”, A-label xn--tqqp71j). Their catalog line: “Competition, discipline, and the will to win.”
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 unowned Chinese-language consumer-vertical category noun sold as an open registry, where success depends entirely on persuading Chinese registrants to put primary identity on a Chinese-script right-of-dot instead of .com/.cn.
Also a broad Chinese generic vertical noun with a mixed commercial/institutional registrant base (clubs, media, public bodies), facing the same question of whether a category word in Han script reads as an address or merely as a label.
Same class of wager — a wide leisure-sector Chinese generic aimed at media, event and consumer-brand registrants, with the same risk that the term is too diffuse to anchor anyone's main identity.
What a .体育 domain is
.体育 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody is chasing .体育 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .体育 domain extension real yet?
.体育 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 .体育 domain?
You can’t yet. A .体育 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 .体育 was .游戏, delegated on 23 October 2013.
Is .体育 a real TLD?
Not yet. .体育 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .体育 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
“.体育 (sports) · Media & Entertainment · “Competition, discipline, and the will to win.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string itself is a strong, universally understood Chinese word for sports, but by analogy Chinese-script IDN gTLDs have seen shallow primary-identity adoption: mainland businesses overwhelmingly brand on ASCII TLDs, and hosting a licensed site in China has historically depended on regulatory approval of the specific TLD, which suppresses serious end-use (analogy, no figures asserted). By analogy, even the ASCII sports-vertical TLDs remain small niches rather than category standards, and an IDN variant addresses a narrower slice of that niche. It is not in the 30-49 band because neither volume registration nor a meaningful aftermarket is plausible on this pattern; it is above 1-9 because a real, identifiable buyer group (Chinese sports organizations and media) exists and some genuine use is likely. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese-script IDN acceptance in mainland browsers, apps, and regulatory practice improves enough in the next 5 years to make IDN endings a normal primary identity.