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

L2 · PractitionerIndustry & BusinessThe Verge AI$· 10/7/2026

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ICANN received 1,615 applications for new top-level domains including .agent, .agi, and .asi from major AI companies like OpenAI and Meta.

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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 .com, .org, and .pizza. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications that have been submitted so far, from 481 different applicants. The trend will not surprise you: AI is everywhere. Ten different companies, including

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