ICANN loses another dot-brand, this one in use
Linde, a German chemicals company, has asked ICANN to terminate its gTLD registry contract.
Unusually, the dot-brand was actually in use, with many .linde domains still in its zone file, many of which were indexed by search engines.
It seems the company was using two-letter country-specific domains such as cz.linde and feature-oriented names such as socialmedia.linde to redirect to pages on linde.com or even the godawful the-linde-group.com.
But whatever Linde was trying, it didn’t live up to expectations, so .linde is set to be added to the funeral pyre of 100+ dead dot-brands.
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