A niche TLD for budget-conscious registrants chasing a short memorable name — hobby and side projects, "dig it" style vanity sites, plus a thin slice of excavation, mining, archaeology, gardening and DNS/dev-tool projects that find the word literally apt.
budget-conscious registrants chasing a short memorable name — hobby and side projects, "dig it" style vanity sites, plus a thin slice of excavation, mining, archaeology, gardening and DNS/dev-tool projects that find the word literally apt
One of the 80 strings ShortDot published for the ICANN 2026 round. ShortDot states it has submitted 40 applications, but publishes the 80 strings without revealing which 40 are applications and which 40 are designated replacements. The submission claim is therefore applicant-level, not string-level: nothing in the source says ShortDot applied for THIS string. Catalogued, not announced.
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 everyday English verb that carries both a literal industry meaning (aviation there, excavation/mining/gardening here) and a colloquial second sense, so it has to be sold as an evocative action word rather than to a category that already needs a home.
Same bet: a short, punchy generic verb with no institutional owner or membership body behind it, whose value depends entirely on registrants finding the wordplay worth putting their primary identity on.
Same bet in structure — a tiny common verb with a double reading (activity vs. operate) that must be marketed as a brandable phrase-completing string — though it has a larger obvious consumer vertical to lean on than .dig does.
- ShortDot · first recordedShortDot (Ireland) Limited
“ShortDot (Ireland) Limited has submitted 40 applications to ICANN's 2026 New gTLD Program. The 80 strings shown include applied-for and designated replacement strings across ShortDot's 40 ICANN applications, presented without revealing their status or pairing.”ShortDot (Ireland) Limited
“The company just disclosed its 40 applications and 40 replacement strings.”Domain Name Wire