According to ICANN’s site, four applications for new gTLD’s have been withdrawn by the applicants so far, including three by Google.
The strings Google has withdrawn its new gTLD application for are:
.And
.Are
.Est
All of Google applications were submitted by Charleston Road Registry Inc.
The fourth withdrawn application belongs to KSB Aktiengesellschaft who applied for .KSB
.duh what a bunch of .ninjas, Im going to be on new TLD panel with you in Lauderdale
I am reminded of the song “Just Don’t Get It” by Local H
If Julius Caesar were here, he would probably ask for
.came
.saw
.conquered
or in Latin
.veni
.vidi
.vici
What’s surprising is they didnt ask for “.www” or “.gle” or simply “.e”
.est would have a potential. Except that Estonia would probably want to have it too.
EST.ME resells subdomains and emails like dear.est.me and dear@est.me.
Google was probably thinking about repeating this trick with .est. Who knows…
Local H, song is called Bound to the Floor, Local H rules.. veni vidi vici
I like the trend.