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Uncontested .catalonia drops out of gTLD race

Kevin Murphy, June 3, 2013, 21:19:09 (UTC), Domain Registries

The regional Government of Catalonia has withdrawn its application for .catalonia.
This is a bit of a weird one.
The application was designated officially “geographic”, but also presented as a single-registrant “dot-brand”, exclusively for the government’s use in promoting tourism.
It wasn’t contested, had no objections and was not covered by Governmental Advisory Committee advice.
Residents of Catalonia, a region of Spain, are of course already served by the .cat TLD, which served as the model for a multitude of regional and cultural gTLD applications.

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Comments (1)

  1. Rubens Kuhl says:

    Considering how bad the Spanish economy is going, cutting government expenditures is the most likely explanation. Closed TLDs generate no revenue but incur costs.

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