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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Withdraws Two More New gTLD Applications: .Media & .Country

July 18, 2013 by Michael Berkens

Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry withdrew applications for two new gTLD’s today reflected on ICANN’s site.

The application were for .Media and .Country

Both of these application were due to have Initial Evaluation by ICANN released tomorrow as they had prioritization numbers 1,242 and 1,232 respectively so by withdrawing tonight Uniregistry picks up a 70% refund instead of the 35% it would have been entitled to after tomorrow.

The withdrawal of Uniregistry application for .Country is an outgrowth of the Joint Venture to operate this new gTLD between Uniregistry and Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) the companies announced in April.

There are only two other applicants for .Media, Tucows.com and Donuts.’

We reached out to Mr. Schilling who had this to day about the withdrawn applications:

“”While Uniregistry does not believe in the legitimacy of so-called “private auctions”, we are open to exploring joint ventures, which allow us to lower costs and improve our product offering in a pro-competitive manner, for the registrants of the future. I would expect any withdrawals of our applications to follow that meme going forward.”

So its seems that its application for .Media may have been dropped in a deal with  one of the other applicants.

Uniregistry originally applied for 54 new gTLD’s and has now withdrawn 3 applications.

Uniregistry previously withdrew an application for .Marketing

This marks the 100th and 101st new gTLD applications to be withdrawn from ICANN.

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: ICANN, New gTLD's

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

  1. ri.sk says

    July 19, 2013 at 8:50 am

    I think Uniregistry will eventually withdraw applications for a
    few others too…

    For me, TLD’s like “.marketing” are a bit too long, if you are
    intending to sell domains based on it; e.g. nebraska.marketing.

    I say the maximum length for a new gTLD should be 5/6 chars.

    Good luck to them!

  2. Andrew Allemann says

    July 19, 2013 at 9:43 am

    http://www.thedomains.com/2013/04/29/uniregistry-and-tldh-team-up-on-the-new-gtld-country/

    🙂


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