Ferrari survives carmaker’s dot-brand bloodbath
Fiat Chrysler is to kill off five of its six dot-brand gTLDs, which it has never used.
The company has told ICANN it no longer wishes to operate .abarth, .alfaromeo, .fiat, .maserati, and .lancia, four of its car brands.
Weirdly, .ferrari, which has also never been used, is not subject to a termination notice. Perhaps the company has plans for it.
The gTLDs were all managed by CSC on the Identity Digital (Afilias) back-end.
The news comes about a year after Volkswagen killed off some of its gTLDs. Audi and Seat are some of the most enthusiastic users of dot-brands.
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