ShortDot (Ireland) Limited, the applicant entity within the ShortDot group, has submitted 40 applications to ICANN's 2026 New gTLD Program. Collectively, the applications contain 40 primary applied-for strings and 40 designated replacement strings.
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Cyril Frémont, CEO at web.best and .Best, has publicly revealed 10 proposed top-level domain applications for ICANN's 2026 new gTLD round. In a LinkedIn post, Frémont said the group behind .best is preparing applications for: .prompt .chatbot .answer .ask .skills .creator .socialmedia .influencer .content .streamer
ICANN's published list for the 2026 round holds 39 applications from Charleston Road Registry Inc., the Google subsidiary also known as Google Registry. Twenty are marked as Brand, and 13 are in a contention set.
The Italian operator of .cloud says it applied for 39 top-level domain strings, primary and replacement together, and that many of them conflict with strings other applicants have already announced.
ShortDot has published its entire 2026-round portfolio as one set: 40 applications carrying 40 primary and 40 replacement strings, every one three or four letters, without saying which is which.
