ICANN receives 1,615 TLD applications from 481 applicants; Meta, OpenAI, and eight others applied for .agent, seven companies applied for .agi, and six for .asi
THE SO WHAT
The land grab for .agent, .agi, and .asi shows AI players treating DNS as brand and distribution infrastructure, not just marketing. If agents become a primary interaction surface, owning the namespace around them could matter as much as app store positioning did a decade ago.
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