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7 applicants for .agi - OpenAI is one of them

333 branded strings like .airbnb, .adidas, .adobe, .anthropic, .claude, .openai, .chatgpt, .bsky (oh hey! @bsky.app), .cloudflare, .converse, .meta, .facebook, .instagram, .ihop, .mazda, .mychart, .newbalance, .palantir, .notion, .ralphlauren, .salesforce, .shopify, .slack, .stripe, .vercel, ...

.taylorswift huh! the applicant is "TAS Rights Management, LLC" - is that Taylor? will swifties get fan domains like ilove.taylorswift or somesuch?

.api could be a bidding war - 10 applicants including Google, LFG, and XYZ (of .xyz fame, plus 34 other existing TLDs)

Speaking of LFG, looks like they applied for the most strings - 158 primary strings, which costs ~$36 million in application fees alone .agi, .api, .bad, .big, .any, .all, .btc, .internet, .llm, .boom, .factory, .good, .god, .learn, .luck, .pod, .merch, .robot, .yes, .url, and of course, .lfg

And speaking of XYZ, looks like they applied for the second most strings, including: .bro, .agent, .beach, .chef, .crypto, .scam, .sus, .street, .omg, .king, .lake, .more, .zzz, and some raunchy ones like .ass

.superintelligence one of if not the longest string - there's also .bankofamerica, .newbalance, .metaglasses, .metaverse, .corporation, .organization, .ralphlauren, .registeredagent, .stradivarius

Google's 39 includes: .agent, .alphabet, .api, .ask, .browser, .gemini, .intelligence, .maps, .sheets, .slides, .teach, .waymo, .waze

Meta's 18 includes: .agent, .aiglasses, .facebook, .insta, .instagram, .llama, .messenger, .meta, .metaverse, .superintelligence, .threads, .whatsapp

OpenAI's 15 are: .agent, .agi, .asi, .chatgpt, .codex, .daybreak, .deploy, .evals, .gpt, .mcp, .model, .oai, .openai, .skill, .voice

seeing lots of ai-related strings (unsurprisingly) .agent, .agentic, .agnt, .agi, .asi, .llm, .prompt, .model, and many more

also plenty of crypto ones .btc, .bitcoin, .coin, .chain, .crypto, .block, .base

.btw a good string, and only one applicant! joins existing TLDs like .fyi, .info, and .how great for mini infosites

.bbq & .gym in a world where gTLDs succeed, your local barbecue joint will be something.bbq and your gym will be something.gym (2 applicants for .bbq and 5 for .gym)

.human 6 applicants - not as many as the 12 for .agent, but hey 2:1 agent:human ratio not bad

.jazz there are many cozy strings out there (joining existing ones like .garden) - and only one jazzy applicant

.fart there is actually an applicant (Endpoint Domains, Inc.) who paid $227k for .fart as a primary string! it references an old SNL sketch with Chris Parnell they also applied for .big, .ftw, .happy, .nsfw, .private, and .punk, among others

ok here's the SNL sketch

there are 16 strings from Community applicants listed on ICANN's spreadsheet .ada, .agent, .aio, .anime, .ape, .avax, .avocat, .bitcoin, .chess, .indigenous, .manga, .mask, .mcp, .sol, .src, .sui

and 21 IDNs (International Domain Names, i.e. in non-Latin scripts) on the list I personally cannot read all but one of these, but I will copy-paste: 在线 海尔 株式会社 地址 商标 中文网 番茄 购物 人工智能 红果 餐厅 网络 品牌 品牌 官网 官网 官网 瑞幸 抖音 québec 海信

I will write more about this, but for now I copy-pasted ICANN's list into a Google Sheet for easier filtering fun - have at it

and I guess I'll also plug that I am writing a book about internet domains, if you are this type of nerd: dotcom.press email newsletter and archive on the book website^

Are these accepted or just a list of applications? If it’s the later, when are acceptances or when/if they might be known?