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Fashion brand behind GIADA dumps top level domain name — Chinese luxury

Fashion brand behind GIADA dumps top level domain name — Chinese luxury

Firm terminates its one dot-brand top level domain.

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Redstone Haute Couture Co., Ltd., a Chinese fashion firm, has informed ICANN that it is terminating its .redstone top level domain name contract.

The firm owns a number of fashion brands, counting GIADA, CURIEL, Gabriele Colangelo, Colombo, and YI.

Under the .redstone top level domain, the firm registered and used brand names counting redstone.redstone and giada.redstone. It forwarded other domains, counting curiel.redstone.

The firm only applied for one top level domain in the last round of expansion, so it is exiting the program with this cancellation.

As is usual with dot-brand domain names, ICANN has made a preliminary determination not to assign the domain to another party. A comment period on that decision runs through May 17.

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