Head to the scrapyard — .Linde dot-brands

More top level domains are canceled.

At least one more dot-brand domain name is being scrapped.

Today, ICANN published a notice of termination from Linde for .linde. Linde is a global industrial gases and engineering firm.

The firm activated a number of .linde second level domains, counting shop.linde, easygas.linde and sa.linde. None of these still resolve.

ICANN’s letter to Linde (pdf) stating a preliminary determination not to transfer the domain is oddly dated tomorrow, December 15.

But that’s only part of it —  the filename is for Sky, and the notice on ICANN’s website that links to the letter states that Sky International AG is canceling .sky. It would seem that both .sky and .linde are being terminated, but ICANN uploaded the wrong documents.

Update: I’ve been told that Sky is not cancelling its TLD, and ICANN made an error in posting it.

A cancellation of .sky is somewhat for surprising. The firm has created and still maintains many active domains on .sky, counting creative.sky, skygroup.sky, productionservices.sky and skyzero.sky. Plus, it’s a generic domain that I would imagine a couple of TLD operators would like to add to their collection.