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Who wants the new TLDs? Inside ICANN’s 2026 gTLD round
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1,614 applications from 480 organisations for 986 new top-level domains. Explore who wants what, where the rivalries are, and what happens next.
Published by
Thomas Pezza
Date
ICANN’s 2026 New gTLD round closed on 12 August 2026. On Reveal Day, 7 October, ICANN published every application: 1,614 applications from 480 organisations, for 986 different strings. Explore who wants what below.
The round at a glance
Where the applicants come from
More than half of all applications come from the United States. Malta and the Cayman Islands follow, home to some of the largest portfolio applicants. The arcs connect countries whose applicants want the same strings.
Who competes with whom
263 strings have more than one application. The big portfolio applicants meet again and again: Link Freedom Group and XYZ.COM applied for 49 of the same strings. Press play to watch the field shrink to the heavyweights.
The biggest portfolios
Every string at a glance
Search all applications
What happens next
On String Confirmation Day, 17 November 2026, ICANN publishes the final list of strings and the official contention sets. The community input and objections period then runs until March 2027. We’ll update this article when the new data is out.
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