.电脑
Is .电脑 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .电脑, 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
The Chinese word for "computer" as a web ending; Chinese businesses rarely build their main address on such endings, so demand looks thin.
Chinese-language PC retailers, repair shops, and consumer-electronics sellers who want a keyword address in their own script, plus hardware brands registering defensively.
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round; a Chinese-script IDN (“computer”, A-label xn--wnyy6w). Their catalog line: “The machine behind modern work and play.”
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 simplified-Chinese generic consumer-device category noun offered as an open namespace to Chinese-language sellers and brands in that hardware category, betting that a native-script category word beats a transliteration.
Also a CJK-script generic consumer-electronics category noun aimed at retailers and manufacturers in the same hardware aisle, with the same dependency on native-script navigation habits rather than on any single brand.
Identical category-noun job — an open registry for anyone in the computing-hardware trade — but the bet is placed in Latin script for an English-reading buyer, so the language-market thesis differs even though the word is the same.
What a .电脑 domain is
.电脑 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 .电脑 today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .电脑 domain extension real yet?
.电脑 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 .电脑 domain?
You can’t yet. A .电脑 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 .电脑 was .手机, delegated on 17 June 2014.
Is .电脑 a real TLD?
Not yet. .电脑 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .电脑 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
“.电脑 (computer) · Consumer Goods · “The machine behind modern work and play.””Journey To The West Corporation
- By analogy, the ASCII counterpart .computer has been a low-visibility new gTLD with weak primary-identity use, and Chinese-script IDN TLDs such as .网络 and .公司 have, again by analogy, seen registrations driven by promotion and defense rather than sustained primary-identity adoption — Chinese users habitually navigate via apps, search, and pinyin ASCII domains. '电脑' is a generic consumer-goods keyword, so it confers little brand distinction and, by analogy with other generic IDN strings, a thin aftermarket. Some price-driven volume from PC sellers and repair shops in China is plausible over the next 5 years, which keeps it above the no-market band. The main market uncertainty is whether resolution and linkability of Chinese-script domains inside the dominant Chinese app ecosystems (messaging, search, mobile browsers) improves enough in the next 5 years to make IDN addresses practical primary identities.