Go Daddy to withdraw applications for .Home and .Casa top level domains: Breaking

Domain registrar abandons plans for its own top level domains.

Go Daddy is abandoning its applications for the .home and .casa top level domains, the firm disclosed today.

Go Daddy CEO Blake Irving disclosed the news at its Registry Days conference in Phoenix today.

The event is designed to start a dialogue with fresh top level domain applicants that may wish to sell their domains through Go Daddy — counting applicants that have rival bids for the .home and .casa domains.

By abandoning its .home and .casa bids, the only two TLDs the firm applied for that it planned to offer to the public, Go Daddy will eliminate two conflicts.

The first is with competing applicants for the two TLDs. These firms want to strike agreements to sell their domains through Go Daddy, but would have also been competing with the firm in the application process.

Second, it will eliminate concerns regarding Go Daddy promoting its own fresh TLDs ahead of others in domain check results.

Go Daddy still owns a stake in the .me registry, still.

The firm will continue to pursue its brand domain name .godaddy, which will not be offered to the public.