.数据
Is .数据 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .数据, 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
Timely Chinese word for "data," but Chinese-script web addresses rarely become a company's main online identity.
chinese data-economy companies, data exchanges, analytics and cloud vendors, and government-adjacent digital-infrastructure projects wanting a native-script label
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“data”, A-label xn--vxup8b). Their catalog line: “The raw material of the digital age.”
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.
Two-character Chinese-script abstract generic from the same information-technology semantic family, sold on the same bet: that Chinese-language businesses will put primary identity to the right of the dot in native script on a broad, non-branded category noun.
Same structural bet — a Chinese-script infrastructural tech generic that only works if IDN adoption is real and a large open field of Chinese technology firms registers under a category word nobody owns.
Exact semantic twin and identical job (generic category noun as a namespace for data/analytics businesses), but the buyer and the adoption risk are the Latin-script global market rather than the Chinese IDN market.
What a .数据 domain is
.数据 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 .数据 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .数据 domain extension real yet?
.数据 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 .数据 domain?
You can’t yet. A .数据 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 .数据 was .信息, delegated on 18 March 2015.
Is .数据 a real TLD?
Not yet. .数据 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .数据 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
“.数据 (data) · Tech & Energy · “The raw material of the digital age.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string means 'data,' a concept at the center of China's digital-economy discourse, so topical relevance is real. But by analogy with existing Chinese-script IDN TLDs (dictionary-word strings like company/network/online equivalents), volume has tended to come from promotional pricing and defensive registrations rather than sustained primary-identity use — Chinese businesses overwhelmingly anchor on ASCII domains, and mixed-script input friction plus browser/app handling of IDNs suppresses everyday use; that pattern is an analogy, as I have no figures for this string. The target buyers (data and tech firms) are precisely the segment most likely to prefer ASCII identities, which further narrows demand. In-country regulatory licensing requirements for domain resolution in China add a qualitative adoption hurdle whose outcome here is unknown. Band 10-29: memorable and topical with shallow, mostly defensive demand; not 30-49 because there is no analog of Chinese IDN tech-generics sustaining volume registrations or an aftermarket; not 1-9 because the term's policy salience makes some genuine registrations and occasional vanity/primary use plausible over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether China's data-economy policy push translates into enterprises actually adopting native-script domains as primary identities rather than ASCII defaults.