Another dot-brand bites the dust
Honeywell International, a $40-billion-a-year US conglomerate, has become the last major company to dump its dot-brand gTLD.
The company informed ICANN in February that it no longer wishes to run .honeywell, and ICANN yesterday published its preliminary decision not to transition the TLD to a new owner.
Honeywell never used .honeywell, which has been in the DNS root since June 2016, beyond the contractually mandated placeholder at nic.honeywell.
It becomes the 46th new gTLD registry to request a termination since 2015. Almost all have been dot-brands.
The company’s request is open for public comment until April 14. To date, there have been no public comments on any voluntary registry termination.
Honeywell is involved in the aerospace, building and consumer goods sectors. It has 130,000 employees and reported revenue of $40.5 billion for 2018.
It’s the first new gTLD termination request of 2019.
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