.statoil Domain

Oil, gas, and energy operations framed the .statoil application in ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program. Energy producers brought a procurement and investor-communications rationale to the round: supplier onboarding and payment instructions are targets for impersonation fraud, while market-sensitive operational disclosures carry consequences if fabricated elsewhere.

The string is one of the round's clearest rebranding casualties — the company adopted an entirely new corporate identity after the application, leaving an extension permanently bound to a name no longer in use. A domain can be redirected when a company renames; an extension cannot. The extension is not currently active in the DNS root zone and is not available for registration by any party.