ICANN's new gTLD applications: AI giants compete
What happened
On 8 October 2026, ICANN published the results of this round of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications. According to The Verge, the round drew 1,615 applications from 481 applicants. Among them, 10 companies including Meta and OpenAI applied for .agent, and 7 applied for .agi. OpenAI alone applied for 15 TLDs, while Meta applied for 21. This is the latest development in the contest over AI-related domains in this application round.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 8 d ago
Timeline
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- The Verge · AIIt appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains
For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza.
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