.chatbot
Is .chatbot a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.chatbot is not contested. One applicant has said publicly that it applied to run it, and nobody else has, as of 15 August 2026. It is BestTLD Pty Ltd.
A long, dated-sounding AI keyword; shorter names on .ai and .bot already serve this market, so few projects would live here.
builders and vendors of conversational-AI and customer-support automation products who want a keyword-exact address, plus domain investors speculating on AI-themed strings.
One of 10 strings the .best registry announced it is applying for in the ICANN 2026 round, in its AI cluster (example use shown at announcement: bot.chatbot).
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 software agent, aimed at the vendors and developers who build them putting their primary identity on the category word rather than a brand.
Same kind of word (a generic noun for a conversational software product) sold to an overlapping set of conversational-interface companies, though it names the interaction mode rather than the product category and so also drags in consumer and community uses.
The archetypal bet that a then-current software-product-category noun becomes the default namespace for anyone shipping that kind of product, which is structurally what .chatbot needs to be true, just across a far broader buyer base.
What a .chatbot domain is
.chatbot is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .chatbot.
Is the .chatbot domain extension real yet?
.chatbot 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 .chatbot domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .chatbot name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .chatbot was .bot, delegated on .
Is .chatbot a real TLD?
Not yet. .chatbot is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .chatbot in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- BestTLD Pty Ltd · first recordedDNForum
“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
- I place .chatbot in the 10-29 band (vanity/narrow). It is not in the 30-49 band because the string is unlikely to attract volume or price-driven registrations over the next 5 years: it is seven characters, semantically redundant for its own market (the announcement's own example, bot.chatbot, repeats 'bot'), and it competes with two shorter incumbents for the identical buyer, the .ai ccTLD, which by broad observation (analogy, no figures asserted) has become the primary-identity choice for AI startups, and .bot, a gTLD aimed at the same conversational-agent niche that, by analogy with other single-concept gTLDs, has shown little sign of becoming a primary-identity namespace. It is not in the 1-9 band because a real, sizable market of chatbot and support-automation vendors exists, and some keyword-defensive and SEO-motivated registrations are plausible. A further headwind is vocabulary drift: industry language is moving toward 'agent' and 'assistant', which risks making 'chatbot' read as dated branding within the 5-year window. On the operator side, the verified facts state the applicant runs .best (IANA-delegated 2014, operated live since 2018, per the operator) with CentralNic as backend, and announced 10 applications across AI and creator-economy clusters on 2026-07-06; that indicates an experienced operator with distribution plumbing in place, which supports availability but does not change the string's demand ceiling. My main market uncertainty: whether 'chatbot' remains commercially current terminology or is displaced by 'agent'-style vocabulary, which would push demand toward the bottom of the band.