.电车
Is .电车 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .电车, 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 keyword domain for electric vehicles; the topic is hot, but Chinese businesses rarely use such domains as their main address.
chinese ev dealers, charging and battery services, auto media and aftermarket sellers targeting mainland consumers, plus speculators riding the EV wave; established EV brands would at most register defensively
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“electric vehicle”, A-label xn--wnys27c). Their catalog line: “The road ahead, fully electrified.”
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 as the target: a plain Chinese-script generic noun for a mass consumer hardware category, sold to the manufacturers, dealers and shopping/review sites of that one industry on the premise that Chinese buyers will re-identify on the category word instead of a .cn/.com second level.
Identical structural bet on the automotive vertical — an unowned category noun that the whole manufacturer-dealer-marketplace chain is supposed to adopt as primary identity — differing from the target only in language market and in naming a sub-segment (electric) rather than the whole vehicle class.
Also a CJK-script generic durable-goods category noun aimed at makers and retailers of that product class, but it covers a diffuse appliance basket rather than a single high-consideration purchase with brand-name registrants queued behind it.
What a .电车 domain is
.电车 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 .电车 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .电车 domain extension real yet?
.电车 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 .电车 domain?
You can’t yet. A .电车 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 .电车 was .手机, delegated on 17 June 2014.
Is .电车 a real TLD?
Not yet. .电车 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .电车 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
“.电车 (electric vehicle) · Tech & Energy · “The road ahead, fully electrified.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is genuinely current: 电车 is everyday colloquial Chinese for electric vehicles, and China's EV sector is a major growth market, so topical and defensive demand plausibly exists over the next 5 years. But by analogy (flagged as analogy) with prior Chinese-script IDN gTLDs such as .在线, .中文网 and .商标, registration activity tends to be price- and speculation-driven with very thin primary-identity use — Chinese EV businesses overwhelmingly brand on .com/.cn with pinyin or letters, and mainland website operation typically requires regulatory licensing of the TLD plus ICP filing, which suppresses serious end-use on unaccredited strings. That keeps it below the 30-49 band, where volume registration and at least weak brand utility are sustained; it sits above 1-9 because the EV keyword is meaningful, memorable, and matches a large real industry, so some genuine niche and speculative uptake is likely. Applicant facts: one of 323 strings (69 Chinese-script IDNs) in a portfolio announced 2026-08-17, per the verified facts; portfolio context noted neutrally as bearing on how much dedicated market development any single string receives. Main market uncertainty: whether mainland Chinese consumer-facing EV businesses will adopt Chinese-script domains for marketing at all, versus treating them purely as redirect or defensive assets.