Have the ICANN .BRAND New gTLDS ended up being a rip off and scam?

Posted on July 13, 2017

McDonalds may just not be the last of the victim of the new gTLDs .Brands domain owners to throw in the towel. The giant food chain has sent a termination letter to relinquish control of the .McDonalds and .MCD TLDs. It also requested that .McDonalds not be delegated to a successor registry operator for two …

McDonalds terminates its .Brand gTLDs .McDonalds and .MCD

By James Barnley Posted in Domainnews

Posted on July 7, 2017

McDonalds has joined a host of companies that had applied for their .brand top level domain names and later have decided it’s not worth the expense or effort. “The restaurant chain applied to run the .McDonalds and .MCD top level domain names, but it recently sent termination notices (pdf) to domain name overseer ICANN voluntarily …