The ICANN New gTLD Program 2026 application window closes on August 12, 2026. Reveal Day—the milestone when ICANN publishes the full, public list of all submitted Top-Level Domain (TLD) applications—is scheduled for November 2026. #domains
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@making_banq@Collector7NFT@mattgould It makes sense that the TLD will be applied by their partner since the fee is $227K per TLD. Also, the closeout date is August but the list of applicants wont be released until 4Q2026. And they can still dropout during that period before the real auction begins.
@Collector7NFT Correct bro. Everyone nows this. This is a speculative asset. Its a competition and an auction. Its your own responsibility if you invested without doing this research.
@Collector7NFT .AGI domains have not been issued yet by UD or 0G. What you bought was the placeholder. Their plan was to apply for the ICANN TLD round in 2026. You wont truly know if they submitted it until they officially announce it. ICANN will release the applicants list around August 2026.
During the last ICANN TLD approval round, the absolute record for a TLD auction was $135 million for .web
What will be the record for this TLD round? 🚀
The news is that this time its gonna be bigger than 2012. Over 1000 TLDs at auction. Huge companies with huge bids competing for key extensions. Some could go up to ridiculous numbers like 50 to $100M . The auction will create hype. You are not ready.
By 4Q 2026 ICANN is expected to publicly disclose all applied-for TLD strings and applicant identities.
The domain market and speculators will go insane when they find out that major companies like Google, Amazon are all applying for TLD extensions.
@a_new_internet It depends on the application. If the agent site interacts with humans then it needs a domain name. If the agent site is a data aggregator or only interacts with other agents, then it doesnt need a domain.
There is a whole new web that is being created that is AI driven. Agents need domains to find data, interact with data, perform actions. The bias towards .com will diminish with time