Metlife terminate their top level domains — Intel and

Two sizable firms ditch their dot-brands.

Chip firm Intel and insurance giant Metlife have canceled their dot-brand top level domain names.

The two firms notified ICANN regarding their decisions last month, and ICANN published preliminary determinations not to transition the domains this stretch.

Intel originally applied for .intel and .powerbook. It withdrew the .powerbook application, but .intel proceeded to delegation. The firm created a handful of second level domains counting software.intel, ark.intel, and jobs.intel but only forwarded the domains to pages on Intel.com.

Metlife does not appear to have actively used .metlife.

The prior week, ICANN published a termination notice from Special Broadcasting Service Corporation for .sbs.