.agt
Is .agt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.agt is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Identity Digital and AI Safety Asia Limited.
A three-letter abbreviation with no settled meaning; works only if buyers read it as "agent", and most will need it explained.
AI-agent builders and talent or real-estate agencies looking for a short, cheap address that abbreviates "agent", plus abbreviation collectors
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: a short clipped common noun for an autonomous software actor, sold as the identity layer for a whole emerging class of software, where the buyer is the company shipping the thing and the precondition is that the category gets big enough for firms to brand on its name rather than on their own.
Also a three-letter clipping of a technical unit-of-software noun betting that an industry's own shorthand becomes the default public identity for every product in it, though 'app' was already universally legible to end users in 2012 while a three-letter abbreviation has to teach its own expansion first.
Shares the root and serves the human-intermediary reading of the string -- a generic occupation/business-category noun that firms put their primary identity on -- but it is the fully spelled profession word for an established service trade, not a compressed abbreviation riding a new category.
What a .agt domain is
.agt 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 .agt domain extension real yet?
.agt 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 .agt domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .agt name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .agt was .bot, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .agt a real TLD?
Not yet. .agt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .agt is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“ASAA2567-T97759 · AI Safety Asia Limited · primary · contention set 2026-7 PTL2645T-T76631 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-7”ICANN
“PTL2645T-T34145 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .gpt PTL2645T-T49983 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .point PTL2645T-T89578 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .stay”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string .agt has no single dominant reading: it is a plausible shorthand for "agent", which gives it a hook into the AI-agent builder market and into talent, travel, insurance and real-estate agencies, but the shorthand is not self-evident and most buyers would have to explain it. The record shows two confirmed applicants in a contention set, one of which (AI Safety Asia Limited) also holds a replacement application for .aiq, which suggests an AI-oriented positioning for at least one applicant; the other applicant's intent is unknown. By analogy (flagged as analogy), three-letter abbreviation TLDs without an obvious word behind them have historically drawn thin primary-identity use and weak aftermarkets, while short strings that read as a real word or a well-known abbreviation have done better; .agt sits closer to the former. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident volume or price-led registration driver on the record and the brand signal is weak outside the "agent" reading; it is not in the 1-9 band because the "agent" shorthand gives it a real, if narrow, pool of AI-agent and agency buyers who could plausibly use short names on it as a secondary or even primary identity. Main market uncertainty: whether the AI-agent segment actually adopts "agt" as its abbreviation, or whether a full-word agent-style namespace and the established AI-oriented TLDs absorb that demand entirely, leaving .agt as a pure vanity string.