.yueyang
Is .yueyang a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.yueyang is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Yueyang Free Trade Zone Investment Co., LTD.
A city-name address for Yueyang, China; useful for local promotion, unlikely to become a serious identity beyond that.
local government bodies, free-trade-zone tenants and tourism or investment-promotion projects tied to Yueyang, plus a thin ring of local businesses wanting a city-branded address
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 single second-tier Chinese prefecture-level city's own name as a TLD, which only works if a local registry can win municipal backing and convince that city's own businesses to re-anchor their primary identity on a hometown suffix.
Also a lone Chinese city-name geo string whose buyer is the local business and civic population rather than any global market, differing from the target only in metro scale, not in the kind of word or the job it does.
The same city-geo bet carried in Latin-script romanization of an East Asian city name, so it shares the target's script choice and local-identity buyer, but rests on a much larger, wealthier metro with an established local-domain habit.
What a .yueyang domain is
.yueyang is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Places. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .yueyang domain extension real yet?
.yueyang is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .yueyang domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .yueyang name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .yueyang was .xn--1qqw23a, delegated on 14 August 2014.
Is .yueyang a real TLD?
Not yet. .yueyang is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .yueyang is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Yueyang Free Trade Zone Investment Co., LTD · first recordedICANN
“YFTZ2669T-T39431 · Yueyang Free Trade Zone Investment Co., LTD · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is the pinyin name of a prefecture-level city in Hunan, China, and the sole application on the record is from Yueyang Free Trade Zone Investment Co., LTD, filed as a geographic name, a profile consistent with a place-branding namespace rather than one aimed at open-market volume. By analogy (flagged as analogy), city TLDs that gained real primary-identity traction over the past decade were large, internationally known cities with strong civic-marketing programs (the .berlin / .nyc / .tokyo pattern), whereas city and regional TLDs in mainland China, including native-script ones for larger cities than Yueyang, have by analogy seen thin registration bases: Chinese businesses overwhelmingly identify through .com/.cn and platform presences, and registry operation inside China carries a licensing layer that tends to slow retail distribution. A Latin-script pinyin string adds a further hurdle: it is neither the native-script name locals would type nor a word foreign buyers recognise. Not in the 30-49 band because there is no realistic path to volume registrations or a price-driven market; demand looks confined to the zone's own entities and a small set of civic or tourism uses, with an aftermarket close to nil. Not in the 1-9 band because a real city with a real economy and a government-adjacent sponsor gives it genuine, if narrow, end-use: municipal portals, zone tenants and investment-promotion sites could plausibly adopt it as a primary identity over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether the sponsor opens general registration to local businesses with active promotion, or keeps the TLD as a closed set of zone and municipal names; registration counts, pricing and launch timing are unknown.