The explosive growth of AI concentrated demand on specific TLDs. The ecosystem is being reorganized in real time.

ICANN's new gTLD program spawned hundreds of new species at once. An era of simultaneous niche adaptation and natural selection.

Country-code domains shed their geographic meaning and began an adaptive radiation as semantic hacks.

The first species to take root in the internet wilderness. The era when the triumvirate of .com, .net, and .org formed the foundation of the ecosystem.