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.robot

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

.robot is contested: 9 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Pingyang Chamber of Commerce, Identity Digital, GoDaddy Registry, Automattic, Nano Labs, Intercap, Internet Land & Cattle, 0G and 1 more, listed below. Kingfish named .robot as a backup string for its .alumni application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.

Generic and Applicant support applications · AI & tech · on the record since Aug 15, 2026, updated Oct 7, 2026
applicants
9 applications · 1 deactivated backup · 1 abandoned claim

Who is applying, and what they run today

Four of the ten already run TLDs, 22.42M names between them. One runs one of .robot's closest 2012 strings: Identity Digital .computer. Six run none.

  • Paws Button, LLC

    Identity Digital

    controlled by Ethos Capital Digital Infrastructure UGP LLC

    277 TLDs · 14.80M names: .info 5.63M, .pro 1.25M, .live 672K, .computer 10K (2012 comp)

    backup .playlist

  • Registry Services, LLC

    GoDaddy Registry

    controlled by GoDaddy Inc.

    36 TLDs · 7.22M names: .vip 1.96M, .us 1.88M, .biz 1.30M

    backup .fuel

  • Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC

    Automattic

    controlled by Automattic Inc.

    1 TLDs · 390K names: .blog 390K

    backup .hack, disallowed

  • Intercap Registry Inc.

    Intercap

    controlled by Jason Adam Chapnik

    4 TLDs · 11K names: .inc 8K, .box 3K, .dealer 222

    backup .engine, disallowed

  • Zero Gravity Labs Inc.

    0G

    controlled by Michael Heinrich

    runs no TLD today

    backup .machine, disallowed

  • Internet Land & Cattle LLC

    Internet Land & Cattle

    runs no TLD today

  • Journey To The West

    Journey To The West

    runs no TLD today

  • Link Freedom Group Ltd

    Link Freedom Group

    controlled by Vandelay Investments Ltd, Yonatan Belousov

    runs no TLD today

    backup .logistics, disallowed

  • Ipollo Tech Ltd

    Nano Labs

    controlled by Nano Labs Ltd

    runs no TLD today

    backup .btc, disallowed

  • Pingyang Chamber of Commerce in Haishu District of Ningbo

    Pingyang Chamber of Commerce

    runs no TLD today

runs TLDs today; the larger, the more namesruns none.tld in orange: one of this string’s closest 2012 stringsbackup .x usable · backup .x ✕ disallowed

Applications are counted by company, across its legal entities, from ICANN’s list. Names are from the registries’ June 2026 reports to ICANN. “None on record” means no public source in our record ties the company to a registry operator that runs TLDs today. Control: each application’s own answer to ICANN (question 108). Largest TLDs and names: the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN.

backups
  • KingfishDeactivated backupkingfish.build ↗

    Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .alumni application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup

    Deactivated backup for .alumniGenericICANN KL2668T-T28867ICANN ↗

Will names sell?

◈AI score
34/ 100
Usable but limited

A fun, literal home for robotics and bot projects, but most serious teams will reach for .ai or .com before .robot.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 15, 2026

Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .robot’s closest 2012 strings hold .bot 23K, .computer 10K and .auto 601.

AI score 34 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.

For comparison, .com scores 96 and .ai scores 84 on the same rubric.

How the AI’s blind 2012 read held up: its score of each 2012 string against the names it holds today808 2012-round TLDs. Scored 60 or more: median 27168 names. Scored under 30: median 30 names. .robot's closest 2012 strings: .bot scored 30, 23099 names; .computer scored 44, 10191 names; .auto scored 60, 601 names.101001K10K100K1M020406080100scored 60+: median 27Kunder 30: median 30.bot · 30 · 23K.computer · 44 · 10K.auto · 60 · 601the AI’s blind 2012 score of each string (its own scale) →names held today (log) →

a 2012-round TLD.robot’s closest 2012 strings: score · names

The 2012 read is a separate, time-locked score on its own scale, so .robot’s score above is not placed on it. Names: the registries’ reports to ICANN, 2026-10. Non-brand 2012 TLDs in the root.

closest 2012 strings
3 of 1,408

The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today

The closest 2012 string, .bot, held 23,099 names, June 2026. .computer held 10,191; .auto held 601. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.

  1. .botstrong parallel23,099 names, June 2026live since 2015 · uncontested in 2012 · scored 30* in 2012 · Amazon EU S.à r.l.See .bot in Stats

    It is the same generic noun for the same class of autonomous machine, betting that makers of the things themselves — plus the developer and hobbyist fringe around them — will put primary identity on the category word rather than on a brand.

  2. .computermoderate10,191 names, June 2026live since 2013 · uncontested in 2012 · scored 44* in 2012 · Pine Mill, LLCSee .computer in Stats

    A bare hardware-category noun whose registrant pool is manufacturers, resellers, and repair/enthusiast sites, so it lives or dies on whether an established device category can pull identity away from an entrenched .com equivalent.

  3. .automoderate601 names, June 2026live since 2015 · 4 applications in 2012 · scored 60* in 2012 · Uniregistry, Corp.See .auto in Stats

    Category noun for a physical-machine industry with makers, dealers, and fans, betting that a whole vertical will re-home under its own product word — the same bet as .robot, just for a mature industry instead of an emerging one.

Names are from the registries’ monthly reports to ICANN. Each name opens the TLD’s stats page: how it grew, who sells it, and the 2026 strings compared with it. * A separate 2012-only read, time-locked to what was public that year, on a different scale from this page’s score.

Where they meet elsewhere

Identity Digital and Link Freedom Group face each other in 68 contests this round, .robot included.

  • Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
    68
  • Identity Digital × GoDaddy Registry
    51
  • Identity Digital × Intercap
    34
  • Link Freedom Group × GoDaddy Registry
    32
  • Link Freedom Group × Intercap
    31

Shared contests: strings where both companies hold an application on ICANN’s list. Companies that meet another here in fewer than three are left out.

who it’s for

robotics startups, AI-agent and automation tool builders, and hobbyist bot makers who want a literal, playful label; secondarily marketing microsites for products with a robot theme.

What a .robot domain is

.robot is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. 9 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.

Is the .robot domain extension real yet?

.robot 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 .robot domain?

You can’t yet. A .robot 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 .robot was .bot, delegated on 5 December 2015.

Is .robot a real TLD?

Not yet. .robot is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .robot is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.

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