ICANN Receives 1,615 Applications for New Top-Level Domains

ICANN has announced that it has received 1,615 applications for new top-level domains from 481 different applicants, according to The Verge. The applications include a notable cluster of AI-related strings.

A total of ten companies, among them Meta and OpenAI, applied for the .agent domain. Seven companies, including OpenAI, applied for .agi, while six applied for .asi. Four companies applied for .intelligence, and two companies—Meta among them—applied for .superintelligence.

OpenAI submitted applications for 15 top-level domains in total, including .chatgpt, .codex, .openai and .gpt. Meta applied for 21 domains, including .facebook, .instagram, .messenger, .meta, .frommeta and .threads.

Other companies also filed for brand or product domains. Anthropic applied for .anthropic and .claude, while Bluesky applied for .bsky. In addition, there are 345 brand applications, including .applebees, .bankofamerica, .zillow and .zoom.

Context

In October 2025, President Trump demanded a switch from "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence." For the first time in years, ICANN is accepting applications for new top-level domains. Over the last few years, most alternate TLDs have struggled, though some like .ai or .app became somewhat popular. Previously, only Google and a few others have accomplished getting their own brand TLD.