ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains
Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the list of applications received in the New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Program: 2026 Round, revealing the applied-for strings and applying entities. As required by community-developed policy set forth in the Applicant Guidebook, the published data includes the applied-for primary strings and any applicable variant or replacement strings, a list of contention sets (CSV format), and public portions of each application. The comprehensive listing can be found on the 2026 Round Application Publication and Statistics website.
- ▪Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the list of applications received in the New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Program: 2026 Round, revealing the applied-for strings and applying entities.
- ▪As required by community-developed policy set forth in the Applicant Guidebook, the published data includes the applied-for primary strings and any applicable variant or replacement strings, a list of contention sets (CSV format), and publi
- ▪The comprehensive listing can be found on the 2026 Round Application Publication and Statistics website.
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| Original publisher | ICANN |
| Canonical URL | https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-reveals-2026-round-applications-for-new-generic-top-level-domains-07-10-2026-en |
| Publication time | Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:01:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-07T20:57:28.885Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-07T20:57:37.763Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | a8CnEGRattaX · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the list of applications received in the New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Program: 2026 Round, revealing the applied-for strings and applying entities. As required by community-developed policy set forth in the Applicant Guidebook, the published data includes the applied-for primary strings and any applicable variant or replacement strings, a list of contention sets (CSV format), and public portions of each application. The comprehensive listing can be found on the 2026 Round Application Publication and Statistics website. "Reveal Day marks an important milestone for the next expansion of the Domain Name System," said Kurtis Lindqvist, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN.
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