NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of the largest Japanese telecom corporation, NTT, has apparently won in a fight over application for the .goo TLD.
As both companies applied for .goo, NTT Resonant filed an objection with WIPO. The company's main business is goo (http://www.goo.ne.jp/), a Japanese-language search system. It seems that as a result, Google had to withdraw its bid for .goo as it was marked as such on ICANN's website.
It's the fourth bid withdrawn by Google so far, with three more bids for .and, .are and .est withdrawn earlier; these three were identical to three-letter geographic codes reserved for Andorra, UAE and Estonia. At the moment, the corporation still has 97 active bids in the new gTLD program.
Overall, there are 82 retracted bids and 1,848 active ones; a maximum number of 1,365 new domains coud appear on the Internet as a result of the new gTLD program.
