Three of today's new strings belong to a company other than the one that announced them

Under the 2026 rules the company on the application form is the one that gets evaluated, holds the string, and appears in any contention set. The company that issues the press release often is not that company.

Where an announcement names the party that would file, this tracker now records that party, not the publisher:

• .xmr is usually credited to Unstoppable Domains. Its own release says the applicant is Cake Wallet, the Monero wallet developer.
• .cspr is usually credited to D3. The announcement opens with MAKE, “with the support of the Casper Association”.
• .avax is usually credited to D3 as well. The sentence reads “Avalanche is applying for the .AVAX TLD”, with D3 named as the partner.

Each of the three is marked as reported rather than announced, because the words belong to the publisher and not to the company now on the record. Where an announcement does not say who would sign, the publisher stays as the claimant and the record says the signatory is unstated.

.ape has one claimant, not two

Some lists show two, which would make the string contested. The second company’s entire public trace is one summarised sentence in a trade report from 2024. We found no statement by it on any site, under any account, or in the registers of companies we searched, so the string is recorded with one claimant.

.self was confirmed and named in different documents

Seven minutes after the window closed, the Human-Centered Computing Foundation posted that “our application is in”. That post names no string. The string appears in its June pamphlet, archived below, which announces “a new Top-Level Domain built from the ground up to support self-hosting” and speaks only of intent.

Both are the foundation’s own words. Neither does both jobs, and the record does not join them up on its behalf.

.gate is the only past tense in the round

Nine days after the deadline a partner company posted that Gate Naming Limited “have applied to ICANN for the .gate Top-Level Domain”. Every other claim on this site is an intention stated before the close.

It is also the entry we could establish the least about. We found no record of that company in the registers we searched, and no public source naming it other than that post. Both facts are on its record.

Two strings nobody can apply for

.nexus has been a live top-level domain since the 2012 round: one application, from Charleston Road Registry, no competing applicant, delegated and resolving ever since. It appears on at least one public list as a 2026 string.

.india is a country name, and ICANN defines Blocked Names as strings “that are not eligible to be applied for”, listing country and territory names among them.