.asi
Is .asi a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.asi is contested: 3 applicants have said publicly that they applied to run it, as of 27 August 2026. They are Radix, Starlight Registry and Link Freedom Group.
A bet that 'ASI' (artificial superintelligence) becomes household jargon; until then it reads as insider shorthand few projects would build on.
AI-hype speculators, futurist/AGI-adjacent projects, and personal-brand registrants who want to signal superintelligence ambitions; a secondary pool of defensive registrations by AI companies is plausible but not primary demand.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Smarter than you thought possible.”
One of 40 strings Starlight Registry (established by registrar Namecheap) applied for in the ICANN 2026 round, reported by Domain Name Wire on 2026-08-19.
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.
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 three-letter insider acronym for an emerging technology paradigm rather than a company or a plain category noun, sold to the operators and vendors building that paradigm, and it only works if the industry's own shorthand stays the shorthand long enough for firms to hang primary identity on it.
The era-defining frontier-technology term whose value rests entirely on a buzzword becoming a durable industry category that every vendor wants to be seen inside — the same speculative wager .asi makes, differing mainly in that it is a spelled-out noun rather than an acronym.
An opaque technical acronym meaningless outside its field but load-bearing inside it, aimed at the firms whose whole business is that concept, which is the same structural bet as .asi even though the field is finance rather than compute.
What a .asi domain is
.asi is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. 3 applicants have said publicly that they applied for .asi.
Is the .asi domain extension real yet?
.asi 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 .asi domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .asi name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .asi was .ott, delegated on .
Is .asi a real TLD?
Not yet. .asi is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .asi in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedRadix
- Starlight Registry · first recordedDomain Name Wire
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
“For us, moving into the registry side is a natural extension of what we have been building.”Domain Name Wire
“.asi · AI & Tech · “Smarter than you thought possible.””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: 10-29, vanity/narrow. The string 'asi' is an acronym for artificial superintelligence, a term currently used mostly inside AI-enthusiast and research-adjacent circles rather than by mainstream buyers. By analogy (flagged as such), the AI category already has a dominant namespace habit: serious AI projects overwhelmingly reach for the established two-letter AI-associated ending, and additional AI-flavored endings have historically struggled to displace an incumbent default. Over the next 5 years, .asi demand looks event-driven, spiking with superintelligence news cycles, with few projects plausibly adopting it as a primary identity, weak brand signal to non-experts (who may misread it, e.g., as the Spanish word 'asi'), and a thin aftermarket. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no visible path to volume or price-driven sustained registration: the buyer pool is a subset of an already-served AI market, not a new one. It is not in the 1-9 band because a real, if shallow, registrant pool exists: hype-cycle speculators and futurist projects would register at launch, and the AI category itself has genuine ongoing demand that a small fraction could spill into this string. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round (the largest applicant of the round, per its voluntarily published list, press-corroborated by Domain Name Wire, 2026-08-13), and lists this string under 'AI & Tech' with the tagline 'Smarter than you thought possible.'; a large-portfolio applicant context suggests broad speculative positioning rather than a category-anchored adoption push, which informs adoption likelihood only. Main market uncertainty: whether 'ASI' crosses from insider jargon into mainstream consumer vocabulary within 5 years; if superintelligence becomes the framing the public uses for AI, the string's meaning becomes self-explanatory and demand could re-rate upward.