Two applicants named their own strings: six from Vant Nexus, one from a crowdfunded non-profit

Two applicants have named their own strings in the past ten days, on their own sites, in the past tense. Between them they add three strings to this catalog and a second public claimant to four more.

Vant Nexus published its primaries and its replacements separately

Vant Nexus Technologies LLC, a company that gives its address as Business Bay in Dubai, states on its home page that it “has applied to ICANN for the .PORTAL, .ISLAND, and .TRUCK gTLDs”. A panel on the same page is headed Replacement Strings and reads “Three replacement strings: .PROFILE - .PARK and .BEACH”.

That separation is the reason this is two records here rather than one. Almost every portfolio on this site arrives as a single undifferentiated list, and ICANN says more than 1,100 of the round’s 1,600-plus primary applications also carried a replacement string, so a source that says which is which is answering the question that decides whether an overlap matters at all. A replacement rides inside an existing application and is reachable only if the primary it was filed with fails.

Read that way, the six strings do two different things to these records:

• .island and .truck are new, with one claimant each.
• .portal was recorded for Link Freedom Group inside its 316-string namespace. It now shows two public claimants.
• .beach, .park and .profile gain a claimant whose own source calls the string a replacement. The other names on those three rows are Phoenix Domain Partners, Link Freedom Group and Radix.

None of the four overlaps is an ICANN contention set. Only two primaries can contend, and on each of these rows at most one side is stated to be primary.

The same page said something different in June. It named the round and an intended April 2026 filing, with no string anywhere on it. The applied-for wording is what the page carries now, and an archived copy is linked above.

A crowdfunded application, submitted and paid

Pawprint Prototyping, a non-profit hackerspace in Santa Clara, California, posted on 4 September that it had “submitted our completed gTLD application to ICANN and paid the application invoice ($54,250)”. The string is .furry, new to this catalog with one claimant.

Two things make the record unusual rather than routine. The first is the invoice: most claims on this site are a string and a sentence, with no public evidence of payment on either side. The second is how the money was raised. The project ran a public campaign for a USD 90,000 goal, says it closed above that figure, and says it qualified for ICANN’s Applicant Support Program, which ICANN describes as a 75 to 85 percent reduction in evaluation fees. ICANN publishes counts for that programme and names no organisation, so the qualification rests on the applicant’s own statement, and the figure it published is consistent with a reduced fee.

The post names no second string, and none was found in the sources read for this record, so nothing here infers one.

What is still not public

Both records stand on what an applicant said about itself. ICANN has not published the application list, and until it does, no claim on this site is a filing anyone outside the applicant can confirm. On ICANN’s own 2026 programme news page, the most recent entry at the time of writing is dated 9 September and none of the entries names a date for the publication.