.aiagent
Is .aiagent a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .aiagent in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. BestTLD Pty Ltd named .aiagent as the replacement string of its .socialmedia application.
A descriptive label for AI agents, but .ai already owns that identity; expect curiosity registrations, not serious primary brands.
AI-agent startups, agent-framework hobbyists and speculators wanting a literal label, plus platforms that might want a namespace for machine-addressable agents
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 almost exactly: a generic noun for an autonomous piece of software, sold to the companies building that software as their primary identity, and it only works if "the thing that acts for you" settles on that label as its durable name.
The 2012 bet on a brand-new software-artifact category becoming an identity layer for the developers who ship them — same structure as .aiagent, where the string's whole value rests on a category that barely existed a few years earlier staying the industry's default word.
A technology-wave category noun that vendors of a new compute paradigm would put their identity on; the bet is identical in kind (own the word for the wave) but it is a single infrastructure term rather than a compound naming a discrete product you ship.
What a .aiagent domain is
.aiagent is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .aiagent in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .aiagent domain extension real yet?
.aiagent is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .aiagent domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .aiagent name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .aiagent was .bot, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .aiagent a real TLD?
Not yet. .aiagent is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .aiagent as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- BestTLD Pty Ltd · note
- BestTLD Pty Ltd · first recordedICANN
“TB2698T-T75369 · THE BEST · replacement string of .socialmedia”ICANN
“Cyril Frémont, CEO at web.best and .Best, has publicly revealed 10 proposed top-level domain applications for ICANN's 2026 new gTLD round.”DNForum
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string names a real, fast-growing category — AI agents are a dominant product theme over the next 5 years — but the identity job is already served by .ai, which functions as the category-standard namespace for AI companies and whose short form beats a seven-character compound. By analogy (flagged as analogy), two-word compound gTLDs such as .realestate or .creditcard have tended to see modest registration bases and weak aftermarkets relative to their single-word counterparts; 'name.aiagent' reads as a descriptor rather than a brand, and a serious project would more likely pick name.ai or name.com and describe itself as an agent. Not in 30-49 because I do not expect registrations at volume or price-driven uptake while .ai and .com absorb the same buyers, and the brand signal is derivative of .ai rather than additive. Not in 1-9 because the category is real: some agent-focused startups, developer tools and demo projects will register it, and a few literal strings (e.g. support, sales, trading as agent names) could carry modest resale value. Applicant facts on record: one application by THE BEST, recorded as a replacement string of .socialmedia, with no contention; a single applicant is neutral for adoption likelihood. Main market uncertainty: whether agent-to-agent protocols or discovery registries create demand for a dedicated, machine-addressable agent namespace that human-readable branding does not capture — if that happens, the string could become infrastructure rather than vanity.