.agentic
Is .agentic a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.agentic is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 8 October 2026. They are Radix and Link Freedom Group. Identity Digital named .agentic as a backup string for three of its applications: .control, .coaching and .plan. ICANN deactivated those backups, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
One of the two already run TLDs, 10.43M names between them. Link Freedom Group runs none.
Will names sell?
A buzzword address for AI-agent projects; catchy right now, but the AI world already has a stronger default, so it stays a side choice.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .agentic’s closest 2012 strings hold .cloud 552K, .bot 23K and .smart 51.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .cloud, held 551,867 names, June 2026. .bot held 23,099; .smart held 51. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: the defining paradigm word of a compute era, owned by no one and wanted by every vendor claiming to be part of it, so the string's value rides entirely on the buzzword surviving past its hype window into a durable industry identity.
Same buyer and same job: the 2012-era generic noun for autonomous software acting on a user's behalf, sold to the exact startups and dev-tool makers who would put their primary identity on .agentic today.
Same structural bet as an adjective-as-category — a property word an entire industry wants to wear rather than a thing anyone sells — but it spans consumer devices and telco branding rather than a single technical practitioner cohort.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and Link Freedom Group face each other in 68 contests this round, .agentic included.
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- Identity Digital × Radix
- Link Freedom Group × Radix
startups, developers, and labs building AI-agent products who want an on-trend address for a product page, demo, or campaign rather than a flagship company identity
What a .agentic domain is
.agentic is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .agentic domain extension real yet?
.agentic is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .agentic domain?
You can’t yet. A .agentic name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .agentic was .cloud, delegated on 26 June 2015.
Is .agentic a real TLD?
Not yet. .agentic is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .agentic is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
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LFGL2683T-T42435 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-4 RTIS2674T-T94356 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-4 SS2654T-T19815 · Hair Apparent, LLC · replacement string of .plan · Deactivated SS2654T-T49354 · Hair Apparent, LLC · replacement string of .coaching · Deactivated SS2654T-T57273 · Hair Apparent, LLC · replacement string of .control · Deactivated
“LFGL2683T-T42435 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-4 RTIS2674T-T94356 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-4”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
“.agentic · AI & Tech · “You call the shots here.””Link Freedom Group
- Band: usable but limited (30-49), score 34. The string rides the 'agentic AI' vocabulary wave, which names a genuine and growing product category, so registrations at volume are plausible and some real projects would plausibly use it for product-line or campaign identities. It is not in the strong-niche band (50-69) because, by analogy, the AI category already has an entrenched default suffix that serious AI companies reach for without explanation, and adjective-form strings have historically read as descriptors rather than identities; sustained primary-identity demand for an adjective like this is unproven and would need explaining. It is not in the vanity band (10-29) because agentic software is a large, real buyer category, not an event or a joke; a meaningful subset of agent-focused teams could genuinely register and use these names beyond novelty. By analogy, adjective and trend gTLDs have tended to see registration volume driven by price and hype cycles with weak aftermarket depth, and that is the expected shape here. The main market uncertainty: whether 'agentic' persists as the durable term of art for this category over the next 5 years or fades as a marketing buzzword, which would collapse demand toward pure vanity. Applicant facts (neutral): the string was announced by Link Freedom Group in the ICANN 2026 round, cataloged under 'AI & Tech' with the tagline 'You call the shots here.'; LFG filed more than 300 strings and published its list ahead of Reveal Day (press-corroborated by Domain Name Wire, 2026-08-13). A large-portfolio applicant suggests broad namespace speculation rather than a single-string operator thesis, which neither raises nor lowers the string's own market fit.