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Here’s a first: a non-brand TLD operator voluntarily terminating its contract.
For the first time, an operator of a new top level domain that didn’t apply as a brand owner has voluntarily told ICANN it wants to terminate its contract.
While dozens of .brand applicants have decided they no longer want their TLDs, .desi is different. Desi Networks set the domain up to attract Indian registrants. Desi is a term used to refer to people of South Asian birth that live abroad.
Fewer than 1,000 .desi domains are in the zone, but many are registered by people unaffiliated with Desi Networks. For some reason, the majority of sites showing up on the first page of Google for a site:.desi search are adult related.
The situation of a non-brand TLD operator requesting to terminate is so rare that ICANN mistakenly noted on the Registry Agreement Termination page that it made a preliminary termination to NOT transition the TLD to another operator.
But the actual notice (pdf) confirms that ICANN does believe this domain should be transferred to another TLD operator because of the third-party registrations.
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garbage straight garbage.
.desi
.bike
.horse
.web
.porn
.dick
etc
all trash.
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Millions of $$$$$ wasted ,down the drain at those suckers who got suck into registering these garbage dot whatever.
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.web is cool
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Many more will drop over the next year.
The Fed has stated they will continue to hike interest rates thru at least early 2024.
VC funding is down 75% from 2021 highs and early startup apocalypse of 80% failure is predicted for next 6-12 months. Commercial real estate bankruptcies are at a 10 year high. Yet, most of this goes unreported by MSM.
Of course, many of these .whatever extensions and registries will fail.
The tide has gone out.
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