Another six dot-brands self-terminate (1.Viewing)

Three companies have asked ICANN to turn off a total of six dot-brand gTLDs. Two each.

Lifestyle Domain Holdings no longer wants to run .cityeats and .frontdoor, Paramount-owned CBS Domains wants out of .cbs and .showtime, and chocolate maker Ferrero wants rid of .kinder and .rocher.

It’s perhaps not surprising that Lifestyle Domains is done with .cityeats and .frontdoor, given that they were never used. What is surprising is that the brands themselves have been defunct for many, many years.

Read more: Another six dot-brands self-terminate (two are very strange) - Domain Incite

CBS dumps new top level domain names​

CBS dumps new top level domain names - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News


It was an ill conceived idea, eventually hundreds of extensions will become extinct.