.agi
Is .agi a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.agi is contested: 4 applicants have said publicly that they applied to run it, as of 9 September 2026. They are ShortDot, Radix, 0G and Link Freedom Group.
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.
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.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Intelligence that keeps evolving.”
Unstoppable Domains announced (2026-08-25) that ICANN 2026-round applications have been filed for .agi with the 0G ecosystem. Unstoppable is the registry service provider, not the applicant.
One of 46 ICANN 2026-round applications Radix announced on its own applications page. Radix states it intends to build and operate each TLD it wins.
One of the 80 strings ShortDot published for the ICANN 2026 round. ShortDot states it has submitted 40 applications, but publishes the 80 strings without revealing which 40 are applications and which 40 are designated replacements. The submission claim is therefore applicant-level, not string-level: nothing in the source says ShortDot applied for THIS string. Catalogued, not announced.
The 2012 applications making the most similar bet. Chosen by AI from every string in that 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.
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, filed under AI & tech. 4 applicants have said publicly that they applied for .agi.
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. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .agi name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .agi was .cloud, delegated on .
Is .agi a real TLD?
Not yet. .agi is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .agi in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- ShortDot · now announced
- ShortDot · first recordedShortDot (Ireland) Limited
- Radix · first recordedRadix
- 0G · first recordedUnstoppable Domains
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“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
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- 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.