.agi

The mission of .AGI is to provide a namespace associated with the applied-for string. The .AGI gTLD is intended to serve a broad range of registrants and users, including individuals, businesses, organizations, communities, projects, and other entities that identify with, relate to, or wish to be associated with the concept represented by the applied-for string. The purpose of .AGI is to enable registrants to establish online identities using domain names that correspond to this concept. To achieve this purpose, Cold Fleet, LLC will make .AGI available for registration through registrars and other appropriate distribution channels; maintain a secure, stable, and reliable registry infrastructure; implement registration and operational policies that support the availability, security, and integrity of the namespace; and provide ongoing administration of the gTLD to enable registrants to register and use domain names within the namespace. The purpose of .AGI is sustainable over time because the applied-for string is broadly recognized and has broad applicability across a wide range of contexts. As society, technology, and methods of communication evolve, organizations and individuals will continue to establish online identities associated with the applied-for string.

Link Freedom Group (LFG) aspires to become a best-in-class, vertically integrated domain name registration authority, see linkfreedomgroup.link. This TLD is part of a carefully curated portfolio of strings that LFG intends to pursue in ICANN’s 2026 New gTLD Program. In assembling this portfolio, LFG focused on securing meaningful, memorable, and commercially compelling strings that resonate strongly with end users and offer long-term growth potential. Over the past four years, LFG (Nova Registry) has successfully grown its flagship TLD, .LINK, from approximately 125,000 to more than 300,000 domains under management. This growth has been driven by innovative distribution strategies, the expansion of registrar partnerships, and a granular pricing model that has enabled .LINK to remain competitively priced while avoiding the significant fee increases implemented by some other registry operators. LFG’s experience in the domain name industry has reinforced one of the key lessons from the 2012 application round: long-term sustainability is strengthened through portfolio diversification. By spreading operational costs and mitigating revenue fluctuations across multiple TLDs, LFG is better positioned to withstand market volatility and invest in continued growth. Accordingly, LFG believes that even obtaining a subset of the TLDs for which it has applied will establish a diversified portfolio capable of supporting long-term economic stability, operational resilience, and sustainable growth.

Mission and Purpose The .agi namespace offers a recognizable web address built around "AGI," a term widely used in connection with artificial general intelligence and the broader development and discussion of advanced artificial intelligence. A name on .agi gives a registrant a clear, memorable identity associated with that subject. The purpose is to make available an open namespace that organizations and individuals may use for an online presence related to AGI, artificial intelligence, or other purposes for which they find the term relevant. A research project, developer resource, product page, publication, community, or company's chosen destination on .agi becomes a recognizable name. For registrants whose work involves artificial intelligence, .agi offers an identity that reflects a widely recognized area of research, development, and public discussion. The namespace does not depend on any particular definition of AGI, technological milestone, model, or provider. Its value comes from the familiarity and distinctiveness of the term itself and its availability to registrants who want to make use of it. Intended Registrants .agi will operate on an open registration model, available to any registrant without eligibility restrictions and without conditions tied to any particular company, industry, technology, research approach, or use. Registrants are likely to include, but are in no way limited to, artificial intelligence developers and companies, researchers and academic institutions, platform and infrastructure providers, enterprises developing or deploying AI systems, publishers and educators, and open-source and technical communities. Uses of .agi are similarly open and are not limited to any particular conception of artificial general intelligence, model architecture, platform, provider, or subject matter. Related Activities Supporting the Purpose - Awareness-building among the technology, research, and developer communities most likely to find the namespace useful - Broad registrar distribution to make .agi names widely available - Registrant education on the availability and use of .agi names - Community outreach through artificial intelligence, research, developer, and open-source ecosystems - Responsible registry operations, including standard abuse mitigation and registration policies Sustainability Over Time .agi is durable because it is tied to a widely recognized concept and field of inquiry rather than to a single product, company, model, or vendor. Artificial intelligence continues to develop, and questions concerning increasingly capable and general-purpose AI systems are the subject of sustained technical, academic, commercial, and public interest. The relevance of the term does not depend on whether any particular system is characterized as AGI or on which technologies, approaches, or providers lead at any given moment. As research, development, products, services, and discussion related to advanced artificial intelligence continue to evolve, organizations and individuals may continue to find a clear, dedicated .agi identity useful. OpenAI has the operational, technical, and financial capacity to run the registry over the long term, consistent with the commitments described elsewhere in this application, and will continue to adapt registrant services and policies as the space develops.

1. Mission and purpose: The mission of .agi is to provide a memorable namespace for the research field, industry and public discourse surrounding artificial general intelligence. Intended registrants include AI research organizations and laboratories, technology companies, academic groups, policy institutes, conferences, publishers and communities engaged with advanced AI. Intended users are researchers, developers, policymakers, journalists and the public seeking information on advanced AI. Following delegation, the applicant will, as registry operator of the .agi TLD, conduct a phased launch, implement all ICANN-required rights protection mechanisms, and distribute the TLD through ICANN-accredited registrars, supported by marketing and outreach to build awareness and adoption among the intended registrant and user groups. The TLD will be operated under a comprehensive DNS abuse prevention and mitigation framework covering the full range of abuse types, combining proactive and reactive controls. Abuse reports will be investigated and actioned in line with applicable policy requirements. The objective is to maintain .agi as a high-quality, trusted namespace for registrants and end users. 2. Sustainability: Artificial general intelligence has been a defining objective of computer science for decades; the goal predates the current wave of commercial interest and will remain a focus of research, investment and public debate. The number of organizations and publications organized around this subject continues to grow.

1. Describe the mission and purpose of the applied-for gTLD. .agi helps AI researchers, labs, and builders create a clear and memorable online presence for their work on artificial general intelligence, making it easier to be recognized, found, and understood within a fast-moving field. It turns a web address into an immediate statement of focus, so visitors know the subject before they read a word. For a crowded and competitive space, that instant clarity is a real advantage. Intended Registrants: Organizations and individuals working across the artificial general intelligence field, including research labs, applied AI startups, model and tooling developers, enterprise AI groups, academic teams, and independent researchers who want a web address that clearly signals their focus. Intended Users: People seeking to find, evaluate, and engage with AGI-related work: researchers, engineers, investors, students, journalists, policymakers, and the wider public who visit these addresses to learn about projects, read publications, access tools, or follow the people shaping the field. Related Activities Supporting the Purpose: • Awareness-building that introduces .agi as a recognizable home for artificial general intelligence work. • Registrar distribution to make the namespace broadly accessible to eligible registrants. • Registrant education that clarifies how a focused address supports clear identity and discoverability. • Community outreach to research groups, AI events, and builder communities. • Responsible registry operations consistent with standard practices. .agi gives the artificial general intelligence community a naming layer built around a single, precise idea. Where general-purpose extensions place AI work alongside every other kind of website, a .agi address states the subject before a visitor reads a single word of content. For a research lab, a startup, or an individual contributor, the string itself becomes part of the introduction: a short, legible signal of what the site is about and where it sits in a fast-moving field. A frontier lab can anchor its identity, a tooling company can present its products, an academic group can publish results, and an independent researcher can turn a name into something recognizable within the field. Because the term is understood the same way by specialists worldwide, the extension travels across languages and borders while keeping its meaning intact. 2. Explain how this purpose is sustainable over time. The sustainability of .agi rests on identity and expression: artificial general intelligence has become a defining category around which people, institutions, and capital organize their self-description. Once a term crosses from technical jargon into the way a field names itself, it acquires staying power that outlives any single model, company, or research approach. AGI now functions as a shared reference point for how researchers describe their ambition, how companies frame their positioning, and how newcomers locate the community they want to join. The pursuit of general machine intelligence is not tied to one architecture or one generation of tools; it is a long-horizon objective that has attracted sustained scientific inquiry, institutional investment, public debate, and formal policy attention. Each of these forces gives participants a reason to declare affiliation clearly. A lab wants to signal its mission, a builder wants to be recognized among peers, and an emerging researcher wants a legible place to plant a flag. Relevance is also reinforced by the way the term consolidates rather than fragments. Specific techniques rise and fall, product names change, and organizations reorganize, but the umbrella idea of general intelligence continues to gather these efforts under one recognizable heading. Because the concept is expressed identically by specialists across regions and languages, its meaning does not erode as the community grows internationally.

The mission of .agi is to provide a relevant namespace for artificial intelligence research, technology companies, developers, educational resources and responsible innovation.

Zero Gravity Labs proposes .agi as the trusted digital home for artificial general intelligence: a namespace where an AI system can be discovered, verified, and trusted, rather than operating as an anonymous, unverifiable endpoint on the general internet. The mission for .agi is a global namespace in which every registered AI system carries an identity that other systems, businesses, and people can rely on. As AI systems increasingly act on behalf of users and organizations, there is no existing, industry-recognized namespace tying an endpoint to a verified AI system with clear ownership, provenance, and accountability. General-purpose TLDs carry no such signal, and that gap already creates impersonation and trust problems as AI agents proliferate. .agi closes that gap — not by certifying that a given system is safe or compliant, but by giving verified AI systems and their operators a dedicated namespace where ownership, provenance, and governance information can be reliably published and checked. Intended Registrants and Users The Registry Operator anticipates registrants and users drawn from: ● Organizations developing or operating large-scale AI models and AI agent platforms; ● Enterprises deploying AI agents that need a verifiable identity for the systems acting on their behalf; ● AI safety, auditing, and verification organizations publishing provenance or governance information; ● Infrastructure providers building agent-to-agent communication, authentication, or transaction protocols; and ● Researchers and standards bodies working on AI identity, provenance, and accountability frameworks. Related Activities Zero Gravity Labs intends to operate .agi in parallel with .agent, its existing Web3 TLD counterpart on Unstoppable Domains' Web3 naming infrastructure, consistent with the framework ICANN's Technical Study Group on New gTLD Integrations with Alternative Naming Systems is developing: the two namespaces will maintain strict parallel control, so a name registered in one is only available in the other to the same registrant. Additional detail is provided in response to Question 222. AI systems are subject to a regulatory environment that is evolving rapidly and varies by jurisdiction. .agi's registry-level commitments are limited to naming infrastructure and do not constitute a certification that any registered AI system is safe, compliant, or free of malicious behavior. The Registry Operator will apply the same legal-compliance obligations to .agi as to every other applied-for string, including sanctions screening and cooperation with lawful requests from competent authorities. Sustainability Demand for .agi is anchored in a large, accelerating secular trend rather than speculative activity: deployed AI systems are growing rapidly, and each one adopting a verifiable identity has a structural incentive to maintain and renew it for as long as the system operates. This gives .agi a registrant base with durable renewal incentives, supporting the TLD's operation over the full term of the Registry Agreement and beyond.