.robotics
Is .robotics a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.robotics is contested: 5 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XYZ Registry, Puppap Dot AI, Identity Digital, Radix and Link Freedom Group.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Three of the five already run TLDs, 37.19M names between them. Two run one of .robotics's closest 2012 strings: Identity Digital .engineering and Identity Digital .software. Link Freedom Group and Puppap Dot AI run none.
Will names sell?
A clear, credible label for robotics companies, but long and second choice to .com and .ai, so more descriptive than a default identity.
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. .robotics’s closest 2012 strings hold .analytics 4, .engineering 11K and .software 27K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .analytics, held 4 names, June 2026. .engineering held 11,436; .software held 27,350. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: an -ics field noun naming a whole technical discipline-turned-industry, sold to vendors, labs and practitioners who want the category word itself as their primary identity, and it only works if that sector grows into a self-identifying commercial vertical.
Same bet: a generic discipline noun whose buyers are firms and professionals who already describe themselves by the field, betting that practitioner identity is strong enough to move a company's front door onto the category word.
Same shape of bet on a broad tech-sector category noun claimed by the makers within it, but it names a product class rather than a discipline, so the identity pull is on what you sell rather than what you are.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and XYZ Registry face each other in 77 contests this round, .robotics included.
- Identity Digital × XYZ Registry
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- XYZ Registry × Link Freedom Group
- Identity Digital × Radix
- Link Freedom Group × Radix
robotics startups, research labs, university programs, drone and automation firms, and hobbyist communities wanting a self-explanatory sector address; secondarily industrial-automation vendors naming product lines or divisions.
What a .robotics domain is
.robotics is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. 5 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .robotics domain extension real yet?
.robotics 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 .robotics domain?
You can’t yet. A .robotics 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 .robotics was .analytics, delegated on 21 December 2015.
Is .robotics a real TLD?
Not yet. .robotics is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .robotics is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- 3 applicants · first recordedICANN
- 2 applicants · now confirmedICANN
- Radix · first recordedRadix
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
The source’s 5 linesHide the lines
HS2699T-T96114 · Heir Superiority, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-204 LFGL2683T-T27226 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-204 PDAC2521-T93356 · Puppap Dot AI, Co., Ltd. · primary · contention set 2026-204 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-204 XL2625T-T82417 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-204
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
“.robotics · AI & Tech · “Where machines come alive.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string names a real, growing industry with strong cultural momentum, and the word is globally understood, which gives it genuine descriptive utility. But it is a long, multi-syllable label, and by analogy with other long descriptive gTLDs such as .technology, .engineering, and .solutions (analogy: these achieved registration volume but only thin primary-identity use and weak aftermarkets), serious robotics ventures are likely to keep branding on .com or .ai over the next 5 years, treating .robotics as a redirect, community, or product-line address. It is not in the 50-69 band because sustained primary-identity demand is doubtful: the best-funded robotics companies sit at the robotics/AI intersection where a shorter, hotter suffix already dominates mindshare (analogy: .ai absorbing much of the machine-intelligence naming demand), so adoption would need explaining and may not sustain. It is not in the 10-29 band because demand is not merely event-driven or jokey: robotics is a durable industrial category with many small firms, labs, and clubs for whom an exact-match sector name has real utility, supporting steady if modest registrations. Verified applicant facts (LFG filed the string in the 2026 round within an AI & Tech category among a very large portfolio) are neutral for the string's market quality; a portfolio-scale applicant says little about focused sector marketing, so I weight it only lightly on adoption likelihood. Main market uncertainty: whether the current robotics investment wave produces a naming spillover in which new robotics startups treat a sector TLD as a badge (as some AI firms did with their sector suffix, analogy) or whether they continue defaulting to shorter namespaces, which is the single biggest driver of whether this settles near the top or bottom of the band.