Two more new gTLD application were withdrawn on ICANN’s site tonight making the total of new gTLD applications that have been withdrawn to 71.
Radix which is part of the Directi Group which originally applied for 31 new gTLD’s, withdrew its application for .Play.
Radix is now down to 29 applications as it withdrew its application for the new gTLD .Movie a few weeks ago.
Like with .Movie, Radix was up against very stiff competition for the .Play new gTLD with applications still pending by Google, Amazon, and Famous Four.
The other application withdrawn tonight is by Starting Dot for the new gTLD .Design that had a prioritization number of 684.
Starting Dot still has 5 other new gTLD applications for:
.Archi
.Bio
.Immo
.Ski
There are still 7 other applicants for the new gTLD .Design including Top Level Domain Holdings, Donuts, Straat the company behind .Co, Afilias, the company behind .info, Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry.