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Two more companies call it quits on dot-brand top level domains

by Andrew Allemann — September 25, 2018 Uncategorized 4 Comments

Blanco GmbH and SPIEGEL terminate top level domain names.

Two companies have notified ICANN that they no longer wish to operate their dot-brand top level domain names.

Blanco GmbH is a kitchen company that sells faucets and sinks. It is terminating the .blanco top level domain name.

Publishing company SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG separately informed ICANN that it wishes to terminate .spiegel.

Neither company appears to have used their top level domain names other than to create the mandatory nic.TLD website.

Both of the companies only applied for one domain name, so this marks their complete withdrawal from the new TLD program.

A complete list of companies to withdraw top level domain names is here.

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Vistaprint drops .Vista top level domain

by Andrew Allemann — July 10, 2018 Uncategorized 5 Comments

Company wants to terminate its contract with ICANN to run .Vista.

Promotional and custom products maker Vistaprint has informed ICANN (pdf) that it no longer wishes to operate the .vista top level domain name. The domain name was delegated to Vistaprint in June 2015 but the company hasn’t done anything with it.

The company also applied for and was granted .Vistaprint. Likewise, it hasn’t done anything with that top level domain.

A third domain the company applied for, .webs, was held up in a weird contention set with .web. .Webs is still showing a status of “on hold” at ICANN. Webs is the brand name of a do-it-yourself website maker that Vistaprint bought in 2011.

.Vista always seemed like an odd domain for Vistaprint to go after. I assumed it was some sort of defensive play.

Another company, Statoil ASA, recently informed ICANN that it would like to terminate its .statoil top level domain.

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