.农业
Is .农业 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .农业, 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
Chinese word for "agriculture" — a vast industry, but Chinese firms rarely use Chinese-character web endings as their main address.
Chinese agri-businesses, rural e-commerce operators, agri-tech ventures, and government-adjacent agriculture programs wanting a Chinese-language web identity; in practice, mostly promotional or defensive registrants rather than primary-identity users.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“agriculture”, A-label xn--vhq58f). Their catalog line: “Feeding a nation, and the world.”
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 exactly: a plain Chinese-script generic industry-sector noun offered as an open vertical namespace, where the registry is wagering that Chinese-market producers in that sector will adopt a native-script domain as their primary identity rather than defaulting to a Latin .com.
Also a broad Chinese-script sector noun sold to every business in that industry, with the same twin dependencies (IDN resolution/adoption in China plus a category too big for any one company to own), though 'health' is a demand-side consumer sector while agriculture is a supply-side primary industry with a smaller, less brand-conscious registrant base.
Same structural play — an untrademarkable Chinese-script trade-category noun aimed at all manufacturers and sellers in a defined industry — but it names a product line for a retail audience rather than an entire economic sector, so its buyer pool is narrower and more commercial than the farms, co-ops and agribusinesses the target must convert.
What a .农业 domain is
.农业 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 .农业 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .农业 domain extension real yet?
.农业 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 .农业 domain?
You can’t yet. A .农业 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 .农业 was .食品, delegated on 22 February 2016.
Is .农业 a real TLD?
Not yet. .农业 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .农业 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
“.农业 (agriculture) · Agriculture & Food · “Feeding a nation, and the world.””Journey To The West Corporation
- I place this in the 10-29 band (vanity/narrow). By analogy, existing Chinese-script generic IDN TLDs (e.g. company- and network-meaning strings) have seen weak genuine primary-identity adoption: Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor on ASCII domains and on super-app/platform presences (WeChat, Douyin, Taobao storefronts) rather than any novel TLD — this is an analogy-based inference, as I have no verified registration figures. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident mechanism for volume registrations: agriculture is a fragmented, low-digital-margin sector unlikely to buy domains at scale, and the aftermarket for Chinese IDN generics has been thin by analogy. It is not in the 1-9 band because China's agriculture sector is enormous and state rural-digitization and agri-brand programs make some real promotional and institutional registrations plausible over 5 years. The applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings including 69 Chinese-script IDNs (verified), which suggests catalog-style operation rather than a dedicated sector channel — a neutral fact I weigh only on adoption likelihood. Main market uncertainty: whether Chinese policy promotion of Chinese-script internet identity meaningfully shifts IDN adoption among mainland businesses within 5 years.