According to ICANN’s site both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) have withdrawn their application for the new gTLD .Live, leaving .Donuts as the winner of the .Live new gTLD.
Earlier today we reported that three other public company’s Google, Amazon and Symantec Corporation, (NASDAQ: SYMC) all lost the new gTLD auction for .Cloud.
The Donuts application was placed under the company Half Woods, LLC
So far Google has won 4 new gTLD in contention: .Dev over Amazon; .Docs over Microsoft, .Drive over Amazon and .Play over Amazon, Famous Four Media and Radix.
This marks the 12 new gTLD application that Google has withdrawn.
