The first new gTLD was removed from the domain name system last week. .DOOSAN was officially deleted from the DNS root zone. It was managed by Korean financial and industrial conglomerate Doosan Group, which signed a registry agreement with ICANN in April 2014. In two years the company never created any domains other than the obligatory nic.doosan. The company apparently didn’t know how to use the domain and decided to abandon it.
According to Domain Incite, previously, only test internationalized TLDs operated by ICANN were removed from the DNS root zone during experiments to determine their viability in the domain name space. Also, ccTLDs are removed somewhat regularly due to geopolitical changes, including the redrawing of borders, the renaming of some countries and the independence gained by them, etc. However, the situation with .DOOSAN is the first gTLD removed from the global net due to its uselessness.
