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Of the 134 entries, I find only two where ICANN decided to keep the tld and transition it. For .wed and .desi. I guess these are tlds that actually allowed others / third parties to have domains, while for instance .wolkswagen was mostly enterprise use by themselves?

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It actually seems to be only .desi. Or does it? For .wed, I see a document titled "Final Determination by ICANN to Not Transition Operation of the gTLD (19 May 2021)", but it says that "ICANN org will proceed to make arrangements towards a transition of the .wed TLD to a successor Registry Operator following the Registry Transition Process with a Request for Proposals."

That must be a typo in the title; .wed continues to be operated by the emergency backend registry operator.

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/next-steps-for-the-we...

https://registrars.nominet.uk/gtlds/ebero/

http://nic.wed redirects there.

Maybe ICANN had a heart and decided not to break unsuspecting people's wedding sites lol

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