.robot
Is .robot a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.robot is contested: 9 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Pingyang Chamber of Commerce, Identity Digital, GoDaddy Registry, Automattic, Nano Labs, Intercap, Internet Land & Cattle, 0G and 1 more, listed below. Kingfish named .robot as a backup string for its .alumni application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A fun, literal home for robotics and bot projects, but most serious teams will reach for .ai or .com before .robot.
robotics startups, AI-agent and automation tool builders, and hobbyist bot makers who want a literal, playful label; secondarily marketing microsites for products with a robot theme.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Let the bots do the heavy lifting.”
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Machines built to do the work of hands.”
Unstoppable Domains announced (2026-08-25) that an ICANN 2026-round application has been filed for .robot with the 0G ecosystem, built around AI agents and machine identity. Unstoppable is the registry service provider, not the applicant.
Internet Land & Cattle states on its own site that it applied to operate .robot in ICANN's 2026 round, alongside .human and .agent. The page carries no date; recorded on 2026-09-19, the day the founder surfaced it. Fourth applicant on .robot after Link Freedom Group, Journey To The West and 0G.
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .alumni application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
The 2012 applications making the most similar bet. Chosen by AI from every string in that round, without being told what happened to any of them.
It is the same generic noun for the same class of autonomous machine, betting that makers of the things themselves — plus the developer and hobbyist fringe around them — will put primary identity on the category word rather than on a brand.
A bare hardware-category noun whose registrant pool is manufacturers, resellers, and repair/enthusiast sites, so it lives or dies on whether an established device category can pull identity away from an entrenched .com equivalent.
Category noun for a physical-machine industry with makers, dealers, and fans, betting that a whole vertical will re-home under its own product word — the same bet as .robot, just for a mature industry instead of an emerging one.
What a .robot domain is
.robot is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. 9 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .robot domain extension real yet?
.robot is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .robot domain?
You can’t yet. A .robot name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .robot was .bot, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .robot a real TLD?
Not yet. .robot is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .robot is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Kingfish · first recordedICANN
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Pingyang Chamber of Commerce · first recordedICANN
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
- GoDaddy Registry · first recordedICANN
- Automattic · first recordedICANN
- Nano Labs · first recordedICANN
- Intercap · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now confirmedICANN
- Internet Land & Cattle · now confirmedICANN
- 0G · now confirmedICANN
- Internet Land & Cattle · first recordedInternet Land & Cattle (ilc.llc), the applicant's own site
- 0G · first recordedUnstoppable Domains
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“A2652T-T75760 · Zero Gravity Labs Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-203 ILCL2673T-T48612 · Internet Land & Cattle LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 IRI2679T-T49225 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-203 ITL2677T-T15916 · Ipollo Tech Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-203 KKWT2621T-T94110 · Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 LFGL2683T-T19307 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-203 NA2631T-T22456 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 PB2674T-T61547 · Paws Button, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 PCOC2554-T97118 · Pingyang Chamber of Commerce in Haishu District of Ningbo · primary · contention set 2026-203”ICANN
“A2652T-T75760 · Zero Gravity Labs Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-203 ILCL2673T-T48612 · Internet Land & Cattle LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 IRI2679T-T49225 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-203 ITL2677T-T15916 · Ipollo Tech Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-203 KKWT2621T-T94110 · Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 KL2668T-T28867 · Kingfish LLC · replacement string of .alumni · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T19307 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-203 NA2631T-T22456 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 PB2674T-T61547 · Paws Button, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 PCOC2554-T97118 · Pingyang Chamber of Commerce in Haishu District of Ningbo · primary · contention set 2026-203”ICANN
“Internet Land & Cattle applied to operate the .human, .agent and .robot top-level domains in ICANN's 2026 round.”Internet Land & Cattle (ilc.llc), the applicant's own site
“.AGI and .ROBOT — Our two applications with the 0G ecosystem, built around AI agents and machine identity.”Unstoppable Domains
“.robot · Energy & Mobility · “Machines built to do the work of hands.””Journey To The West Corporation
“.robot · AI & Tech · “Let the bots do the heavy lifting.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a clear, universally understood English noun sitting adjacent to the hottest identity market of the moment, so registrations at some volume are plausible from robotics and AI-agent projects, and that keeps it out of the 10-29 vanity band: this is a real category with real companies, not an event-driven joke. It does not reach the 50-69 strong-niche band because the niche it names is already claimed by stronger incumbents: by analogy, .ai has become the primary-identity default for AI companies broadly (analogy, not a verified figure), and .bot exists as a closer semantic analog that, by analogy with its low visibility among serious company identities, has not become a primary-identity choice. .robot is longer than .bot and less prestigious than .ai, so its most likely role over the next 5 years is descriptive side-project and campaign use, with a thin aftermarket concentrated in a handful of dictionary-word SLDs. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and published its catalog entry for this string under 'AI & Tech' with the tagline 'Let the bots do the heavy lifting.'; a portfolio applicant of that breadth suggests standardized rather than category-dedicated go-to-market, which tempers adoption expectations but does not change what the string itself can carry. Main market uncertainty: whether the embodied-robotics and AI-agent wave creates a distinct identity niche (physical robots, humanoids, agent personas) that .ai does not fully absorb; if 'robot' becomes the consumer-facing word for that category, demand could firm toward the top of this band or above.