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ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains

14 points ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago 16 comments

bwblabs 1 hour ago | parent

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997249 for the 1372 unique strings

droidjj 1 hour ago | parent

Anthropic applied for `.claude` and `.anthropic`. OpenAI applied for: agent, agi, asi, chatgpt, codex, daybreak, deploy, evals, gpt, mcp, model, oai, openai, skill, & voice.

bwblabs 51 minutes ago | parent

Meta Registry Holdings LLC applied for agent, aiglasses, facebook, frommeta, insta, instagram, llama, loc, messenger, meta, metaai, metaglasses, metaverse, muse, reels, superintelligence, threads, vrs, wearables, whatsapp

zamadatix 47 minutes ago | parent

I'll never cease to be amazed at what large companies will throw hundreds of thousands of dollars at just to _apply_ for a new gTLD. I mean what's the demand for whatever.superintelligence? Nobody is going to type that or notice it in a URL bar and think anything but "damn, that's a long TLD" while the dozens of other shorter AI focused TLDs sit there too.

bwblabs 14 minutes ago | parent

Checked all primary strings for length, the 3 longest (excluding punycode notations):

.superintelligence (17)

.registeredagent (15)

.meditativemind (14)

.intelligence (12) is also in the top 10 longest primary strings.

jmaw 1 hour ago | parent

Here is a direct link to the applied TLDs: https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications

If my counting is correct (the results wrap across multiple pages), 13 companies applied for the .agent TLD.

zamadatix 58 minutes ago | parent

The CSV download button gives the full table.

layer8 1 hour ago | parent

Amusingly, .scam is being applied for.

Georgelemental 17 minutes ago | parent

A real scam would never use that TLD, it would be too obvious. Therefore, you know any .scam website must be legit

CalRobert 56 minutes ago | parent

I remember when I worked for a registry (not a registrar) before the first launch of gTLD's. Bizarrely one of the products they were excited to promote was not to register domains under a TLD, but rather, to _block_ them. The idea being that if you wanted to make sure someone else didn't register <company_name>.[sucks, stupid, whatever] you had to pay them (Donuts) to make sure it didn't happen. It felt extortionate.

Apparently it's still a thing. https://kb.centralnicreseller.com/services/brand-protection/...

whalesalad 53 minutes ago | parent

the domain industry is completely insane

vidarh 39 minutes ago | parent

I worked on the .name application, and it was a key thing we were basically required to demonstrate we could do even back in 2000. ICANN was obsessed with protecting trademark holders.

nubinetwork 54 minutes ago | parent

Please, no more... don't we already have enough junk tlds?

PowerElectronix 22 minutes ago | parent

Someone applied for .slop, I hope they make it.

cute_boi 4 minutes ago | parent

"ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet."

No, ICANN mission is to make more money and maintain strong monopoly. Maybe they can be honest about it.