Xinhua News Agency has withdrawn its application with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the new gTLD 广东 .

The english equivalent for the IDN string is Guangdong. The application had a prioritization number of 1,772 .The company has one other new gTLD application with ICANN for the IDN of 新闻 ,which has a prioritization number of 29 .The english equivalent of 新闻 is “News” .