.tushu Domain

Books and publishing sit behind .tushu, a restricted extension from ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program. The string is the Pinyin romanisation of the Mandarin word for books — a descriptive category term rendered in Latin script, part of a group of transliterated Chinese applications designed to carry domestic meaning while remaining ASCII-addressable.

Use relates to the operator's own bookselling and publishing destinations. Registration is closed to the public and the extension carries no aftermarket. Transliterated descriptive strings occupy revealing ground in the round: plainly generic in one language and arbitrary in another, they attracted far less closed-generic scrutiny than an English equivalent such as .books would have.