3 More new gTLD applications have been withdrawn on the ICANN site.
C.V. TLDcare out of the Netherlands withdrew its two new gTLD applications for .Ltd and .Inc
Prioritization numbers for the two applications were 1,381 and 1,503 respectively
Afilias, also withdrew its application for the .Mail new gTLD which had a prioritization number of 1,724
This marks the second withdrawn application for .Inc but don’t worry there are still 9 more applicants.
This also marks the second new gTLD withdrawn for .Ltd and now there are only 5 applicants remaining.
Likewise for .Mail, this is the second withdrawn application leaving 5 other applicants.
ICANN is now showing a total of 63 withdrawn applications
SOS..same old shit news.
So much hype on this gtlds that the people on the street could not care less.
Dot what…huh!!
New coke…huh…
I’d be quite curious to get an analysis of these withdrawals. There have been some relatively high-profile decisions to back away from gTLD applications in the past few weeks, and these particular extensions would seem to carry tremendous generic weight. That they’re not being pursued is interesting, if not completely surprising.
Is this an early-on reprieve from the gTLD space from short-sighted companies or is there a longer-term systemic issue that is being uncovered as this process moves forward? Of course, I don’t know if there are other comanies still vying for these gTLDs, as I’ve not reviewed the applications, but are these particular “rights-of-the-dot” dormant for the time being?
“and these particular extensions would seem to carry tremendous generic weight.”
far less weight than the catatonic nearly defunct :
dot info / dot tv / dot biz / dot mobi-rund etc etc
the “early” writing is on the wall!
yeah, nearly defunct…….
to silly domainers who compare them to .COM
Danny
I think what your seeing are three things
1. the effect of the GAC advice and how they want some of the new gTLD extensions regulated the corporate identifier extensions like .inc, .ltd, .llc etc are particularly at risk on being highly restricted. Same for things like .health, .Med
2. The Google Amazon effect. As of know Both Google and Amazon has said they are not going to participate in private auctions, leaving applicants for the same extension in a group with Google and/or Amazon grabbing 70% of their refund rather than suffering a beat down in the ICANN auction.
3. Delay. We now have a huge amount of GAC objections, a push off of much of any action until after the next ICANN meeting in Africa. The old saying time is money is right and as more time as this process drags on more applicants will drop out.
Thanks, Mike! ~ dtp
R. E. = ” The old saying time is money is right and as more time as this process drags on more applicants will drop out. ”
Have to agree with you Michael, we would also add that any technology wose introduction is known and yet release is still imminent tends to obsolesce very quickly, sometimes causing a D.O.A. release.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)