.agnt
Is .agnt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.agnt is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Kingfish LLC and Identity Digital.
A vowel-dropped "agent" TLD riding the AI-agent wave; catchy to insiders, but most serious projects will still pick .ai or .com.
ai-agent startups, agent-framework developers and speculative registrants who want a short agent-themed handle; a secondary or vanity identity for most, a primary one for few
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 exactly: a short generic noun for a piece of autonomous software, where the primary registrants would be the software products themselves (and the platforms shipping them) rather than any human profession or industry, so the string only works if that product class becomes a durable identity category.
Also a bet that a newly-dominant unit of software becomes the thing people brand on — a generic category noun owned by whoever wants to be the default home for that unit — though .app was betting on an already-mass-market category while .agnt bets on one still forming.
The closest structural parallel to the string form: a clipped, vowel-light abbreviation of a technology category word, chosen because the short form is brandable and typeable, with the same requirement that buyers already read the abbreviation as the full concept.
What a .agnt domain is
.agnt is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .agnt domain extension real yet?
.agnt 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 .agnt domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .agnt name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .agnt was .bot, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .agnt a real TLD?
Not yet. .agnt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .agnt is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“AM2619T-T27105 · Acid Medal, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-6 KL2668T-T13029 · Kingfish LLC · primary · contention set 2026-6”ICANN
“AM2619T-T27105 · Acid Medal, LLC · replacement string of .agnt · Deactivated AM2619T-T66700 · Acid Medal, LLC · replacement string of .ops · Deactivated NA2626T-T96751 · ShortDot (Ireland) Limited · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a vowel-dropped abbreviation of "agent", aimed squarely at the AI-agent category, which is a genuine multi-year demand driver over the next 5 years; two confirmed applicants are on the record (Acid Medal, LLC and Kingfish LLC, ICANN contention set 2026-6), which signals commercial belief in the string but says nothing about buyer demand. By analogy (flagged as analogy), vowel-dropped naming has worked as a startup brand style but has not translated into TLDs that serious projects adopt as primary identity; repurposed .ai became the category standard for AI precisely because it reads as a plain word, and a truncation that needs a second look is unlikely to displace it or .com. It is not in the 10-29 band because the AI-agent category is sustained rather than event-driven and the string is a direct category pointer rather than a joke, so price-led volume registrations are plausible; it is not in the 50-69 band because the spelling itself is a hurdle to primary-identity use and the aftermarket would likely be thin, with resale value concentrated in a handful of dictionary-word SLDs. Main market uncertainty: whether machine-addressable agent identity (agents reachable by domain) becomes a real namespace need that a short agent-specific TLD can serve, and whether a fully spelled alternative is available to the same buyers in the same round, which would siphon the serious demand away from the abbreviation.