.agi
Is .agi a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.agi is contested: 7 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are OpenAI, GoDaddy Registry, Identity Digital, ShortDot, Radix, 0G and Link Freedom Group.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Four of the seven already run TLDs, 37.00M names between them. 0G, Link Freedom Group and OpenAI run none.
Will names sell?
An AI-hype domain that will sell on buzz, but .ai already owns the category, so .agi reads as a secondary badge rather than a default.
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. .agi’s closest 2012 strings hold .cloud 552K, .bot 23K and .app 1.48M.
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; .app held 1,478,674. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: an unowned generic term for a frontier compute paradigm, sold on the premise that the paradigm becomes a durable identity layer for every company building on it rather than a passing hype word.
Same bet in the nearest adjacent family: a short, unowned technical noun for autonomous software that a wave of builders would adopt as primary identity, wagering the category is real and lasting rather than a moment.
Same category-generic-for-the-era's-defining-software-unit bet, but it is a mass-market consumer word with universal reach, where the target is a narrower frontier-research acronym whose audience is a specialist builder cohort.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and Link Freedom Group face each other in 68 contests this round, .agi included.
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- Identity Digital × GoDaddy Registry
- Identity Digital × Radix
- Link Freedom Group × GoDaddy Registry
- Link Freedom Group × Radix
ai startups, research labs, and agent-platform builders who want to signal frontier ambition, plus speculators betting the AGI buzzword outgrows its niche; most will treat it as a defensive or campaign domain alongside a .ai or .com primary.
What a .agi domain is
.agi is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. 7 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .agi domain extension real yet?
.agi 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 .agi domain?
You can’t yet. A .agi 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 .agi was .cloud, delegated on 26 June 2015.
Is .agi a real TLD?
Not yet. .agi is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .agi is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- 3 applicants · first recordedICANN
- 4 applicants · now confirmedICANN
- ShortDot · now announced
- ShortDot · first recordedShortDot (Ireland) Limited
- Radix · first recordedRadix
- 0G · first recordedUnstoppable Domains
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
The source’s 7 linesHide the lines
A2652T-T59922 · Zero Gravity Labs Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-5 CFL2645T-T71728 · Cold Fleet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-5 LFGL2683T-T50354 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-5 NA2626T-T14670 · ShortDot (Ireland) Limited · primary · contention set 2026-5 NA2631T-T14537 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-5 OOL2614T-T13416 · OPENAI OPCO, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-5 RTIS2674T-T70599 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-5
“ShortDot (Ireland) Limited has submitted 40 applications to ICANN's 2026 New gTLD Program. The 80 strings shown include applied-for and designated replacement strings across ShortDot's 40 ICANN applications, presented without revealing their status or pairing.”ShortDot (Ireland) Limited
“The company just disclosed its 40 applications and 40 replacement strings.”Domain Name Wire
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
“During ICANN's 2026 new gTLD application window, we have submitted five top-level domains: .AGI .ROBOT .GRAM .HUB .XMR”Unstoppable Domains
“.agi · AI & Tech · “Intelligence that keeps evolving.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. Assuming general availability, .agi rides the strongest naming current in tech, but it arrives into a category that already has an entrenched default: by analogy, .ai (a repurposed country code) became the primary-identity standard for AI companies, and second-string synonyms in an owned category historically underperform the category leader (analogy: .tech and .website relative to .com/.io in developer branding). 'AGI' is also frontier-lab vocabulary rather than a product-category word; few companies brand themselves as AGI outright, which caps genuine primary-identity use even while hype drives registration volume. It is not in the 50-69 band because sustained primary-identity demand is doubtful when .ai is shorter, established, and semantically broader; serious projects choosing .agi would still need to explain why they passed on .ai. It is not in the 10-29 band because the string is a real, widely recognized tech term with plausible volume demand and a handful of genuinely premium keyword pairings, not a joke or event-driven vanity string. Applicant facts, stated neutrally: the string is announced by Link Freedom Group, which filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and published its catalog (this entry categorized 'AI & Tech', tagline 'Intelligence that keeps evolving.'); a portfolio-scale operator can get broad registrar distribution, which supports availability-driven volume but says little about premium-identity adoption. Main market uncertainty: whether 'AGI' persists as live marketing vocabulary over the next 5 years or dates into an insider term the way earlier hype words did, which would collapse renewal demand after an initial speculative wave.