Another would-be dot-brand has added itself to the list of “On second thoughts…” gTLD registries, asking ICANN to tear up its contract.
Century-old Avianca, Colombia’s largest airline, filed its termination papers with ICANN in December and ICANN published them for comment last week.
While the original 2012 application clearly stated that .avianca was intended as a single-registrant dot-brand, Avianca never actually got around to applying for its Spec 13 exemptions so I won’t be technically counting it as a dead dot-brand.
Despite being operational since early 2016, the TLD never had any registrations beyond the mandatory nic.avianca registry placeholder.
The back-end registry services provider and original application consultant was Identity Digital (née Afilias).
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