As promised, ICANN just shared with us some of the finder details of its applicants, and unsurprisingly, AI is a big theme.

When the internet's domain system started back in 1985, there were only a few primary TLDs: .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov and .mil. The number of TLDs grew in small fits and spurts until 2012, when ...

Amazon submitted applications for eight TLDs, including .alexa, .echo, .eero, .kgs, .kuiper, .leo, .ring and .twitch. Despite ...

Big tech has piled in with plenty of asks, but faces a fight as eight applicants want .api and seven seek .agi ...

Applications reflect global interest in expanding choice and competition in the Domain Name System ...

There are currently around 1500 top-level domains. Soon there could be almost twice as many.

In the biggest shakeup of the internet in over a decade, the way you look for websites could get a lot sillier.

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 ...

ICANN revealed 1,615 new top-level domain applications, with OpenAI and Meta among ten firms seeking .agent and others ...

ICANN says 1,615 new generic top-level domain, or gTLD, applications from 481 entities were submitted during its 2026 filing ...

ICANN added second-level internationalized domain name rules for Javanese and Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and updated seven existing rules, expanding reference material registries can use to ...