ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains

forest

@Francisco said: And become the next big tld for phishing/spam/etc? Sure…

I'll buy .safe and .official and sell them for $0.50/yr. Nothing can go wrong.

Francisco

@forest said:

@Francisco said: And become the next big tld for phishing/spam/etc? Sure…

I'll buy .safe and .official and sell them for $0.50/yr. Nothing can go wrong.

Talk to Google. Those geniuses thought .zip was also a great idea

Francisco

tux

@zejjnt said:
.chic, so close

It is good domain for chickens.

Francisco

@MikeA said:
This is so stupid honestly lol. How many will there be in 5 years? 10 year? Every company will have their own. And we'll have even dumber ones at that point like ".dirt" and ".brainrot"

The 'brand' ones are fine. Most companies that want those are uber rich and the $100k or whatever the cost is, is a rounding error.

I had Claude build out a a gTLD report so we knew what registries we're missing, and how big each is. The counts are about as accurate as we can get via CZDS.

https://files.namecrane.com/gtld-audit.html

Once you get out of the top 10 the usage tapers off quickly. I don't know how ".furry" is going to pay their ICANN bills short of some NGO bucks dropping in their lap. I think ".meow" might have a chance just because it won't have the cultural restrictions of ".cat".

I'm sure ICANN requires TLD maintainers explain their finances and marketing, but I dunno.

Francisco

ascicode

sell for 50+ first year, then 1-2 a year.

Saragoldfarb

@Francisco said:

@MikeA said:
This is so stupid honestly lol. How many will there be in 5 years? 10 year? Every company will have their own. And we'll have even dumber ones at that point like ".dirt" and ".brainrot"

The 'brand' ones are fine. Most companies that want those are uber rich and the $100k or whatever the cost is, is a rounding error.

I had Claude build out a a gTLD report so we knew what registries we're missing, and how big each is. The counts are about as accurate as we can get via CZDS.

https://files.namecrane.com/gtld-audit.html

Once you get out of the top 10 the usage tapers off quickly. I don't know how ".furry" is going to pay their ICANN bills short of some NGO bucks dropping in their lap. I think ".meow" might have a chance just because it won't have the cultural restrictions of ".cat".

I'm sure ICANN requires TLD maintainers explain their finances and marketing, but I dunno.

Francisco

.furry gonna be wild. We backing it. Watch it happening!