.mcp

Is .mcp a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?

AI & tech
applicants
  • RadixAnnounced
on the record since Aug 27, 2026 · updated Aug 27, 2026
AI score
58/ 100
Strong niche

A timely bet on the AI agent-tool protocol wave: genuinely useful to MCP server builders if the protocol endures, narrow if it fades.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 27, 2026
AI score 58 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

developers and companies publishing Model Context Protocol servers and agent-tool integrations, plus AI infrastructure vendors wanting a protocol-native address for their connector products

aiInfrastructuretech
applicants
1 on file
RadixAnnounced
Aug 27, 2026

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.

closest 2012 bets
3 of 1,408

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.

.botmoderate
delegated 2015 · live

Same bet that a just-born category of software component needs its own address space, sold to the vendors and developers shipping those components rather than to any consumer audience, and it only works if the category outlives its hype window.

uncontested · scored 30* in 2012 · run by Amazon EU S.à r.l.

.idnmoderate
never delegated

Same bet that a technical standard's acronym can become the namespace of the implementer community that lives around that standard, where the registrant base is vendors proving conformance rather than anyone with a brand to place.

uncontested · scored 16* in 2012

.javaweak
delegated 2015 · live

Shares the shape of a named technology serving as the identity layer for the third parties who build on it, but the 2012 version was a mature corporate platform name rather than a two-year-old open protocol acronym, so the risk profile is inverted.

uncontested · scored 40* in 2012 · run by Oracle Corporation

* A separate 2012-only read, time-locked to what was public that year. Different scale from this page’s score — the two are not comparable.

history
  1. Radix · first recordedAug 27, 2026
    Radix
news & sources
AnnouncementRadix: our ICANN 2026 round applications
Aug 27, 2026
Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.
Radix
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