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

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (doing business as Google Registry): agent, alphabet, api, ask, beam, browser, cast, chromebook, chromium, classroom, deepmind, find, fitbit, gem, gemini, gemma, genie, gke, intelligence, keep, lens, lesson, lyria, maps, mcp, nest, pixel, share, sheets, shorts, slides, teach, ultra, veo, vids, waymo, waze, wear, workspace

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zamadatix a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'll never cease to be amazed at what large companies will throw hundreds of thousands of dollars at just to _apply_ for a new gTLD. I mean what's the demand for whatever.superintelligence? Nobody is going to type that or notice it in a URL bar and think anything but "damn, that's a long TLD" while the dozens of other shorter AI focused TLDs sit there too.

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socializer a day ago | parent | next [-]

It is not an exaggeration that tech companies have far, far more money than they know what to do with. Not all spending looks good to investors, so layoffs must happen, but this is nothing compared to the amounts of money Google, Meta, etc, blow on completely inexplicable / SVP vanity projects every year.

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bwblabs a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Checked all primary strings for length, the 3 longest (excluding punycode notations):

.superintelligence (17)

.registeredagent (15)

.meditativemind (14)

.intelligence (12) is also in the top 10 longest primary strings.

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duskwuff a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Non-tech companies are getting sucked in, too - see, for example, the applications for .airliquide, .capitalgroup, .dinebrands, .massimodutti, .newbalance, .stubhub, .warhammer, .zarahome, and so on.

From what I've seen thus far, most brand TLDs never get used. (The only significant exception that comes to mind is .google, and even they never really committed to using it.) Who's been going around convincing these companies to apply for this round?

	▲	bwblabs a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Google mainly uses .goog for infrastructure (from cloud, gclb, gke, pki, to printer.in) while .google is more of the about page of services.
	▲	reaperducer a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The pharmaceutical company Hisamitsu uses its TLD: https://us.hisamitsu

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mitxela 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The whole thing is just a money grab for ICANN.

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schleck8 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

So Meta, Google and OpenAI all applied for .agent

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srik a day ago | parent [-]

Some of these keywords are so valuable that I see them all forming a consortium of sorts to share access amongst themselves.

	▲	DANmode a day ago \| parent [-]
		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.