One of The Applicant For .Med Withdraws Its New gTLD Application

March 15, 2013 by Michael Berkens

One of the applicants for .Med has withdrawn their new gTLD application with ICANN

DocCheck AG withdrew its application just a couple of days after the ICANN Independent Objector, posted it objection to the application.

There are still more .Med applications including one filed by Google.

DocCheck Ag is from Germany and the contact on the application is Mr. Philip Stadtmann, who only appears of this one application for .Med.

.Med becomes the 25th new gTLD application to be withdrawn.

ICANN also failed 2 applications that had applied for financial assistance.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

Steven Sikes says

March 15, 2013 at 1:13 pm

Curious as to why applicants are dropping now. I suppose just cutting their losses. My guess: Google and Amazon will stay “all in”, if for no other reason, “defensive” maneuvering. Besides, the $ millions they’ve invested –are just pocket change on their books.
Michael Berkens says

March 15, 2013 at 7:37 pm

Steven

Applicants can still get 70% of their application fees back now.

Once Initial evaluations are released the refund drops to 35%