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

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• forest Member

  October 8

  @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.

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• Francisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  October 8

  @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

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• tux Veteran

  October 8

  @zejjnt said:
  .chic, so close

  It is good domain for chickens.
• Francisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

  October 8 edited October 8

  @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

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• ascicode Member

  October 9

  sell for 50+ first year, then 1-2 a year.
• Saragoldfarb Veteran, Megathread Squad

  October 9

  @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!

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