It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains

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ICANN has received 1,615 applications from 481 applicants for new top-level internet domains, with AI-related suffixes such as .agent and .agi attracting strong interest. Meta and OpenAI are among the companies seeking the .agent domain, while OpenAI has also applied for .agi.

What’s in a URL anymore, really. For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications that have been submitted so far, from 481 different applicants. The trend will not surprise you: AI is everywhere. Ten different companies, including both Meta and OpenAI, applied for the .agent domain. Seven, including OpenAI, applied for .agi. Six, including OpenAI, applied for .asi, clearly attempting to get in on President Tru … Read the full story at The Verge.