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In a first for new gTLDs, Aquitaine dumps geo bid

Kevin Murphy, February 5, 2015, Domain Registries

The authority for the French region of Aquitaine has become the first applicant for a geographic new gTLD to pull its application apparently of its own accord.
Région d’Aquitaine’s bid for .aquitaine was withdrawn today, despite the fact that the applicant was already in the contracting stage with ICANN.
A handful of other geographic gTLD applications have been withdrawn previously, but only due to disputes between the applicant and the governments of the regions they wanted to represent.
.aquitaine is the first would-be geographic gTLD to be pulled after passing through the evaluation stage of the program.
Aquitaine is one of France’s 27 formal regions, with a population of over three million.