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bwblabs
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997249 for the 1372 unique strings
FranOntanaya
I hope whoever registers index.php uses that power for good.
DANmode
So…visually reviewing domains will finally become impossible, forcing us to make certificate and key pair stuff actually user-usable?

Not the worst outcome, but…it’s going to be a mess.

zokier
that already happened during previous round
jayknight
I suddenly feel the need to own at least one .fart domain.
droidjj
Anthropic applied for `.claude` and `.anthropic`. OpenAI applied for: agent, agi, asi, chatgpt, codex, daybreak, deploy, evals, gpt, mcp, model, oai, openai, skill, & voice.
bwblabs
Meta Registry Holdings LLC applied for agent, aiglasses, facebook, frommeta, insta, instagram, llama, loc, messenger, meta, metaai, metaglasses, metaverse, muse, reels, superintelligence, threads, vrs, wearables, whatsapp
schleck8
So Meta, Google and OpenAI all applied for .agent
srik
Some of these keywords are so valuable that I see them all forming a consortium of sorts to share access amongst themselves.
DANmode
Or they’ll give it to the highest bidder =\

It should be available to the public and businesses without a(nother) company in between: if we had our act together.

layer8
Amusingly, .scam is being applied for.
Georgelemental
A real scam would never use that TLD, it would be too obvious. Therefore, you know any .scam website must be legit
jmm5
...or that's just what they want you to think.
thayne
The real scam is getting companies to pay to make sure someone else doesn't register companyname.scam.
CalRobert
I remember when I worked for a registry (not a registrar) before the first launch of gTLD's. Bizarrely one of the products they were excited to promote was not to register domains under a TLD, but rather, to _block_ them. The idea being that if you wanted to make sure someone else didn't register <company_name>.[sucks, stupid, whatever] you had to pay them (Donuts) to make sure it didn't happen. It felt extortionate.

Apparently it's still a thing. https://kb.centralnicreseller.com/services/brand-protection/...

vidarh
I worked on the .name application, and it was a key thing we were basically required to demonstrate we could do even back in 2000. ICANN was obsessed with protecting trademark holders.
CalRobert
They certainly charged a pretty penny for this protection!
zokier
gTLDs include .com, .org, .info etc, so they have been around pretty much since the beginning of public dns
thayne
> It felt extortionate.

Because it is.

nubinetwork
Please, no more... don't we already have enough junk tlds?
an0malous
No because domain squatters take 99% of the good ones
mitxela
No because ICANN needs money again.

These events have nothing to do with domains. They are funding rounds for the corrupt organisation known as ICANN.

PowerElectronix
Someone applied for .slop, I hope they make it.
swozey
I was so proud of myname.dev maybe 5-10 years ago, migrating it to .slop will really bring in 2027, I hope they let me
cute_boi
"ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet."

No, ICANN mission is to make more money and maintain strong monopoly. Maybe they can be honest about it.

colemannugent
I think .cos and .con should probably be rejected for typosquatting concerns.
MomsAVoxell
I'm pretty sure I'd be very happy reading something on just.cos every day, and as well copy.con too, might be very topical .. but sin.cos and contra.con and bin.con are gonna get bumpy ..
slartibardfast0
can't believe their going to get away with stealing & re-allocating third level .name addresses while simultaneously enshittifying the domain name system with any of these unworthy and over-long addresses.
steele
Thanks for all the phish
gertrunde
https://newtlds.lol/

Apparently .agent the most requested with 13 orgs applying for it.

Followed by .bit with 11, and .api, .brand, .hub with 10 each.

And apparently "Link Freedom Group Ltd" has 213 active applications, and "XYZ.COM LLC" has 182 active applications.