.cobot
Is .cobot a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .cobot, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A narrow industry keyword for collaborative robots; useful for a few marketing sites, unlikely to be anyone's main web address.
industrial-automation and robotics vendors, cobot integrators, and campaign/microsite marketers in the collaborative-robotics sector; possibly hobbyist robotics projects
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Robots designed to work alongside people.”
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.
Identical bet: an automation-category noun that only insiders use fluently, sold as a namespace to machine/agent vendors and builders who want the category word itself as their primary identity, and it only works if the category name outlives its hype cycle.
Same shape of bet — a narrow B2B industrial hardware product-class noun whose registrants would be component makers, distributors and integrators, not consumers, so its ceiling is the size of one supply-chain niche.
Also a coined 'new word for a new device class' bet where the string's value depends entirely on the class name becoming durable industry vocabulary, but it was a single vendor's trademarked class rather than an open industry term, which makes the registrant pool a different animal.
What a .cobot domain is
.cobot is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody is chasing .cobot today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .cobot domain extension real yet?
.cobot 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 .cobot domain?
You can’t yet. A .cobot name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cobot was .bot, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .cobot a real TLD?
Not yet. .cobot is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .cobot and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.cobot · Energy & Mobility · “Robots designed to work alongside people.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow). 'Cobot' is a real and growing B2B term for collaborative robots, but the buyer pool is a thin layer of manufacturers, integrators, and distributors who already brand on .com or country codes; by analogy, the broader .bot TLD saw only modest uptake despite a far larger addressable market, and product-category TLDs like .auto or .car have leaned on premium pricing rather than organic primary-identity use (analogy, figures unknown). It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no plausible volume-registration base or price-driven demand — the industry numbers too few firms, and they use company-name brands, so demand is mostly campaign microsites and defensive buys. It is not in the 1-9 band because the term is an established industry keyword with real marketing budgets behind it, so some sustained niche registrations are realistic over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether 'cobot' crosses from B2B jargon into mainstream vocabulary as collaborative robots enter small businesses and homes, which would widen the buyer pool meaningfully.