It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains
ICANN listed 1,615 new TLD applications, including bids by OpenAI and Meta for .agent and .agi.
ICANN published 1,615 applications for new top-level domains from 481 applicants, its first such round in years. Ten companies, including Meta and OpenAI, applied for .agent, and seven including OpenAI applied for .agi. OpenAI sought 15 strings, among them .asi, .chatgpt, .codex, .openai, and .gpt, while Meta applied for 21, including .superintelligence plus brands such as .facebook and .instagram. Anthropic applied for .anthropic and .claude, and Bluesky for .bsky; nothing is expected to become official before sometime next year.
- 1,615 applications from 481 applicants in ICANN’s new gTLD round
- Meta and OpenAI are among ten applicants for .agent
- OpenAI filed 15 strings, including .agi; Meta filed 21
- 345 applications are brand TLDs; none are official before next year
From the original article
2 min read at theverge.com
What’s in a URL anymore, really. 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 .
By David Pierce · theverge.com
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