AiVikings.ai offers about 650 TLDs today. That sounds like a lot, until you remember how many exist. We cannot add them all at once, so I built a page where you vote for the ones you want next.
I will tell you why, how it works, and what it does not do. I will also tell you who built it, because I did, and I am a little proud of it.
The menu at a small restaurant
A small restaurant has a chef, a limited kitchen, and a menu that cannot list every dish in the world. Good restaurants solve this in a simple way. They cook what the guests keep asking for.
That is the idea. The chef could guess, and sometimes the chef is right. But guests who ask for the same dish three times are telling you something the chef cannot know from inside the kitchen.
Why a vote
Every TLD has its own registry, its own rules and its own way of doing things. Adding one is not a button. It means reading the rules, connecting to the registry, testing, pricing and keeping it working afterwards. We are three people, and the list of things to do is always longer than the time.
So someone has to decide which TLDs come next. I could sit here and guess. I have guessed before, and I was not always right. It is better that you decide.
If enough of you ask for the same TLD, it moves up the list. That part of the roadmap is now driven by the people who actually pay for the domains, and that seems to me the right way round.
How it works
You will find it on the website, from the prices page. If there is a domain ending you want and we do not have it, you vote for it. That is all.
I also built a page in my internal tools where I can follow the votes as they come in. So a vote does not disappear into a database. It lands in front of me.
What it does not do
I want to be clear about this, because it would be easy to promise too much.
- A vote is not a promise. It tells me what people want. It does not guarantee a date. Some TLDs are quick to add, and some need work with the registry that takes time.
- It does not touch the registrar. The part that handles your domains and your money is built and tested by our developers. The voting page is a page on the website, and it has nothing to do with that part.
What I hope to learn
I expect to be surprised. I have a list of TLDs in my head that I think people want, and I would not be shocked if the votes tell me something else. That is the point.
I also like that it makes the roadmap less of a secret. You can see the price list, you can vote, and you can follow what we add in the product updates and on the roadmap.
Why I built it myself
I vibecoded it. For those who have not tried it: I describe what I want to an AI, it writes the code, and I test and complain until it works. It is surprisingly like managing a developer, except that it never gets tired of me.
My rule is that what I build stays away from the production environment. The voting page is a good example of something that is fine for a founder to try. I wrote more about this in September at AiVikings.ai.
Every TLD also has its own page on the site, and each fact on it points back to an official registry source. You can read how we do that in how we source TLD facts.
Questions people ask
How many TLDs does AiVikings.ai offer?
About 650 at the time of writing. The number changes as we add more, so check the prices page.
Will my TLD be added if I vote?
Maybe. A vote tells me what people want. It is not a promise or a date.
If there is a TLD you want and you cannot find it in the list, tell me in the chat on the website. It ends up on a phone, and someone will answer. It might even be me.
/Thomas