ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains

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What happened

Article URL: https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-reveals-2026-round-applications-for-new-generic-top-level-domains-07-10-2026-en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997301 Points: 13 # Comments: 14…

Key facts

  • Article URL: https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-reveals-2026-round-applications-for-new-generic-top-level-domains-07-10-2026-en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997301 Points: 13 # Comments: 14…
  • Reported by Hacker News and published Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:01:45 UTC.

Why it matters

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For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .

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