.superintelligence
Is .superintelligence a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.superintelligence is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Meta. Radix named .superintelligence as a backup string for its .fintech application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A striking AI-themed label, but far too long to type or brand; a showcase or vanity address rather than a working primary identity.
AI labs, research groups and founders who want a thematic statement address for a lab, manifesto, project or campaign page alongside a shorter primary domain
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .fintech application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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: an abstract paradigm noun for a frontier computing concept with no incumbent merchant class behind it, where the registry is wagering that the concept itself becomes the identity layer for the companies defining it rather than selling to an existing trade.
Same bet in a lower register: the name of an emerging technical discipline, sold to practitioners and vendors who would plant their primary identity on the field's own label, though 2012 analytics already had a paying vendor base that a speculative future-state word does not.
Same bet on a word whose commercial referent barely existed at application time, so demand depends on the technology arriving rather than on any current population of registrants, but it is a short artifact-noun rather than a long abstract concept.
What a .superintelligence domain is
.superintelligence is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .superintelligence domain extension real yet?
.superintelligence 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 .superintelligence domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .superintelligence name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .superintelligence was .cloud, delegated on 26 June 2015.
Is .superintelligence a real TLD?
Not yet. .superintelligence is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .superintelligence is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“MRHL2653T-T55386 · Meta Registry Holdings LLC · primary RTIS2674T-T86437 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .fintech · Deactivated”ICANN
“MRHL2653T-T55386 · Meta Registry Holdings LLC · primary”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string sits squarely in the AI theme, which is where real naming demand is concentrated over the next 5 years, but the term itself is a long multi-syllable word that is awkward to type, say aloud, or fit on a business card, and in practice the AI category already has shorter namespaces that serious projects reach for without explanation. By analogy (flagged as analogy), long descriptive new gTLDs from the earlier round tended to attract registrations driven by price promotions and defensive or thematic interest rather than sustained primary-identity use, and their aftermarkets stayed thin; a string this long would, on analogy, behave at the weaker end of that group. It is not in the 30-49 band because I do not expect registrations at meaningful volume: the length suppresses casual and SMB demand, and the term describes an aspiration rather than a product category most businesses would self-label with. It is not in the 1-9 band because there is a realistic, if narrow, market: AI labs, research collectives and founders who want an emphatic statement address (a lab landing page, a manifesto, a recruiting or campaign page) will plausibly register a handful of memorable names, and the theme carries cultural charge that supports some event-driven or novelty demand. Applicant facts, stated neutrally from the record: Meta Registry Holdings LLC holds a confirmed standard (non-brand) application; a second application by Radix Technologies Inc SEZC is recorded as deactivated, with its primary string being .fintech. A large technology-company applicant could plausibly use the namespace mainly to showcase its own initiatives, which would further concentrate rather than broaden end-use; I use this only to inform adoption likelihood, and I assume general availability as instructed. Main market uncertainty: whether 'superintelligence' becomes an everyday product or company label (which would lift demand toward the usable-but-limited band) or remains a research and discourse term used mostly in essays and lab names (keeping it as vanity demand).