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ICANN receives 1,615 new TLD applications, many AI-related (.agent, .agi, .chatgpt)

ICANN announced 1,615 applications for new top-level domains from 481 applicants; a notable portion target AI-related strings. Multiple companies — including OpenAI (15 TLDs applied), Meta (21 TLDs), Anthropic and Bluesky — filed for generic and branded AI-themed domains such as .agent, .agi, .asi, .chatgpt, .openai and .anthropic; final approvals are expected next year.

KEY POINTS

  1. ICANN announced 1,615 applications for new top-level domains from 481 applicants; a notable portion target AI-related strings.
  2. Multiple companies — including OpenAI (15 TLDs applied), Meta (21 TLDs), Anthropic and Bluesky — filed for generic and branded AI-themed domains such as .agent, .agi, .asi, .chatgpt, .openai and .anthropic; final approvals are expected next year.
  3. The applications show major AI companies pursuing control of AI-themed internet namespaces, with implications for branding, trust, discovery and governance of AI services.

WHY IT MATTERS

The applications show major AI companies pursuing control of AI-themed internet namespaces, with implications for branding, trust, discovery and governance of AI services.

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It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains

ICANN’s latest top-level domain applications are out, and they are all about AI. 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. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications that have been submit…

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