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City of Mumbai States It Hasn’t Authorized .Mumbai

Letter of approval issued in error as stated by Mumbai’s IT department.

A few months following Minds + Machines disclosed it was working with India TL Domain Pvt Ltd for the .Mumbai top level domain name, a city official is saying that ICANN ought to not allocate the .mumbai domain name.

The letter from Y.S. Mahangade, Deputy Director (IT) of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), requests that ICANN “Not allocate any domain ending with .mumbai (dot Mumbai) to any party / organization / firm”.

As stated by Mahangade:

Honorable Deputy Mayor of MCGM inadvertently issued a letter to one organization which has been revoked later by Honorable Deputy Major of MCGM. It may please be noted that the official position of the City of Mumbai is communicated by Municipal Commissioner.

Frankly, I was a bit surprised to see the .Mumbai notice in the first place given how the city “works”. My impression is it’s not exactly easy to get something done quickly through the bureaucratic process.

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