Why did someone create a fake applicant website? A Chinese company that said it applied for over 100 top level domain names was apparently fake. In August, Journey to the West Corporation created a website promoting what it said were 323 primary and replacement strings that it applied for in ICANN’s 2026 new TLD expansion [...]
Company applies for eight dot-brand top level domain names. Tech giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) was one of the largest applicants for new top level domain names in the 2012 expansion round, applying for 76 extensions. It was also one of the biggest disappointments when it came to actually releasing the TLDs it won. It took [...]
An Intel networking software defect disrupts IPv6 connections to cloud services. Researcher testing identifies a corrected release, while affected driver packages remain listed across multiple laptop manufacturers in Microsoft's Update Catalog.
ICANN has disclosed 1,615 active applications from 481 applicants for its 2026 new gTLD round, revealing competing bids, regional participation and an outstanding application still undergoing administrative review.
Company will face competitors for some of the domains, including .agent. Google has applied for 39 top level domain names in ICANN’s 2026 expansion round. That’s far fewer than the 101 it applied for last time, in 2012. From the last batch, two of its most successful open top level domains are .app and .dev. [...]
List includes founder’s name, .matt. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, plans to expand its top level domain name portfolio by as many as 16 domains. The company already operates .blog, which has about 375,000 registrations. (For more about its thinking behind getting .blog in the 2012 expansion round, listen to Domain Name Wire’s podcast with [...]
President wants his own top level domain name. U.S. President Donald Trump has applied for his own top level domain name: .trump. ICANN, the organization that oversees the domain name system, opened the door to applications for new top level domains this year for the first time since 2012. Trump’s application was among 1,616 submitted [...]
Tech giant wants .superintelligence, .agent, and other TLDs. For many people, the first time they heard the term “super intelligence” was when Donald Trump uttered the term last month. During a speech to the United Nations, Trump said that the U.S. would refer to artificial intelligence as super intelligence going forward. He later signed an [...]
Company makes massive investment in new strings, including applications for .agent and .crypto. Identity Digital hopes to add hundreds of top level domain names to its already massive portfolio. The company, which is already the largest registry in terms of top level domain names, applied for 216 strings in the 2026 round. The applications span [...]
Company applies for five “dot brands” plus generic strings, such as .agent, .skill. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has decided to get into the top level domain name business. The company applied for fifteen top level domain names: agent agi asi chatgpt codex daybreak deploy evals gpt mcp model oai openai skill voice The company is [...]