A weak TLD for most names for startups, indie makers and marketers putting up a pre-launch teaser or waitlist page, plus domain-hack hobbyists (see-you.soon style) and cheap-registration speculators.
startups, indie makers and marketers putting up a pre-launch teaser or waitlist page, plus domain-hack hobbyists (see-you.soon style) and cheap-registration speculators
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.
Identical bet: a bare temporal adverb with no category meaning, whose entire value lives in the phrase the registrant builds to the left of the dot, so it only works if buyers treat a domain as a sentence rather than an address.
Same wager on a time-word as an open generic — sellable to anyone who can complete a natural phrase with it — but it carries a publishing/recurrence connotation that gives it a default vertical, where a pure adverb has none.
The other non-category deictic adverb on the list: it names nothing anyone is in the business of, so it must be sold as expressive wordplay to registrants willing to put their identity on a grammatical fragment.
- 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