Intercap Registry emerges as one of largest new gTLD applicants
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Intercap Registry already runs a few web address extensions like .inc and .box. It turns out the company has applied for 71 new ones in ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN's latest expansion round, a huge jump for a business that wasn't known to be planning this. Many of the strings it wants, like .agent and .brand A top-level domain that a company runs for its own trademark. Full definition of .brand, are also wanted by other companies, so they will need to compete for them.
Intercap Registry, previously a modest player operating .inc, .dealer and .box, has applied for 71 new top-level domain strings in ICANN's 2026 application round, placing it among the largest applicant An organization that has applied to ICANN to run a new gTLD. Full definition of applicant overall. Domain Name Wire says it had not heard industry chatter about Intercap's expansion plans before seeing the company's name repeatedly in ICANN's application list.
Of the 71 strings, 58 face competition from other applicants, while 13 appear uncontested. The most contested strings in Intercap's list include .agent, with 12 competing applications, followed by .brand and .hub with 9 each, and .good and .robot with 8 each. Other contested strings include .max, .pod, .zen, .ask, .mind and .vibe.
Strings that appear free of competition in Intercap's application list include .account, .backup, .comedy, .globe, .great, .invite, .legacy, .lend, .look, .plex, .say, .stats and .stupid. Domain Name Wire notes that .corporation, one of the contested strings with two applicants, fits with Intercap's existing .inc registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry, and that .plex and .owl are being applied for as dot-brand domains.