A weak TLD for most names for personal and vanity registrants, influencers, and small gift, greeting, dating, beauty and fan-community sites wanting a playful "hugs and kisses" name.
personal and vanity registrants, influencers, and small gift, greeting, dating, beauty and fan-community sites wanting a playful "hugs and kisses" name
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.
Same bet exactly: a piece of net-native expressive shorthand that belongs to no company or category, sold on the hope that a playful sign-off registers as an identity people want to type after their own name.
Same bet on an affection word with no incumbent owner and no industry behind it — its registrants are individuals, greeting/gifting and personal-brand sites, and it works only if sentiment alone can carry a namespace.
Also a sentiment expression rather than a category or brand — an affectionate phrase sold as a personal/emotional address — though it is a full spoken phrase for a single language market rather than typed slang shorthand.
- 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