Tag Archives: Minds+Machines

Thu 4th February 2016
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.Law Gets 5K Registrations in 1st 90 days: We Break Down The Numbers - According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the new “.law” and .abogado (Lawyer in Spanish) top-level domains, “announced that .law has successfully completed its first 90 days since general availability having fulfilled more than 5,000 verified registrations, with over 700 premium names including numerous domains which have sold for $100,000 or more.” However the press release is silent on the results of .abogado (spanish for lawyer) which ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2015
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Stats Spin? .London Renewal At 75.4% For Sunrise, Landrush & 1st Day Domains - The .London registry along with Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX)) announced today that the renewal rates for .London domain names “exceeded expectations by reaching 75.4%.” However that “renewal rate is for a total of 38,389 names applied for during the Dot London combined Sunrise and Landrush period as well as the first day of General Availability, registered between August 19th and September 9th 2014.” All domain renewals have passed their grace periods.” Domain names acquired in Sunrise are ... read more ...
Thu 12th November 2015
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Worldtrademarkreview.com: New gTLD's .Law & .Legal not Getting Much Love - According to the Wordldtrademarkreview.com,  the new gTLD space for lawyers which highlights .Legal, which  is unrestricted and .Law which is heavily restricted have gotten off to a very slow start. “An analysis of take-up within the two most relevant new gTLDs – ‘.law’ and ‘.legal’ – suggests that law firms are taking a tentative approach to their new gTLD registration strategies, with only a quarter of the sample we studied registering the equivalent of their key domain name in ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
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Looks like 86 Sunrise Domains For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers - The new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86 domain name registrations in .law and 30 for .abogado. However interestingly there seems to be some registrants in Sunrise by Companies that are not lawyers. There are registrants of domain names ... read more ...
Sun 11th October 2015
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Godaddy .Miami Domain Name Auctions Hit The 4 Figures - .Miami went live for General Availability (GA), where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis, on October 2nd. .Miami did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program (EAP) .Miami is being managed on behalf of the city of Miami by Minds + Machines which has premium registration and renewal domains as well as reserved domain names. Godaddy has had a policy for all new gTLD launches, if more than 1 person pre-registers a domain name and they catch the domain, then the domain ... read more ...
Wed 7th October 2015
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Minds + Machines To Go With An 8 Day Early Access Program For .Law/.Abogado - Minds + Machines announced today for the first time, they will be running an Early Access Program (EAP) as part of the launch of .law and .abogado (spanish). The EAP period will run 8 days from 12-18 October. “During this EAP period an extra fee will be charged in addition to the standard annual charge for each domain name. Each day, the EAP fee will descend in price until the point where on the 8th day, the EAP fee will no longer exist and only Standard or Premium name annual charge will apply.” I’m ... read more ...
Tue 6th October 2015
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.XXX, .Porn., .Adult & .Sex Start Selling Premium Domains Through Registrars + 2 Characters - ICM Registry (ICM) which operates .xxx as well as the new gTLD’s .porn, .adult and .sex announced today the launch of its tiered-pricing, premium names program for .XXX, .ADULT, .PORN and .SEX.domain names. ICM is joining a growing list of new gTLD registries who are selling the vast majority of its premium domain names through the registrar channel with premium registration and renewal prices. These names include SEO based keywords as well as two character names. ICM will continue sell some of ... read more ...
Sat 3rd October 2015
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New gTLD .Miami Gets Almost 5,000 Registrations After It's 1st Day Of Availability - The new domain name extension .Miami , which had it’s first day of General Availability yesterday, where it could be registered on a first come, first served basis got almost 5K registration including around 200 in Sunrise. According to ntldstats.com, .Miami had 4,959 domain names in the zone after its full day of GA. The Godaddy family of registrars, dominated the top 10 of domain registrars of .Miami taking 8 out of the top 10 spots and getting over 55% of all .Miami registrations. .Miami is ... read more ...
Wed 23rd September 2015
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My Most Ridiculous Domain Pricing Award In The New gTLD Space Goes To Mind & Machines - I just got a renewal  bill from my registrar, Hexonet on some Minds + Machines domain names I registered last year at normal registration prices. I have spent well into the six figures on new gTLD’s, so I put my money at risk all the time in the very speculative new gTLD space. In this case there was an issue with the pricing sent over by the registry Minds + Machines to  my registrar, Hexonet. Along the way in the registration process the retail price got screwed. Unlike mostly every domain ... read more ...
Tue 22nd September 2015
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Minds + Machines Finds Operating New gTLD Much Less Profitable Than Selling Apps: Swing To a Loss - Minds + Machines Group Ltd  (LON:MMX) reported today the company’s financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 “due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions” Minds + Machines reported a  pretax loss of $3.7 million for the half year to ending June 30th, from a pretax profit of $4.9 million, “mostly as a result of lower profit from participating in generic top-level domain auctions”. In ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2015
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Minds + Machines Picks Up $3.5 Million For Withdrawing New gTLD Apps For .Art & .Data - Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX), today announced the Company has gained, in aggregate, net proceeds of over $3.5 million (approximately £2.3 million) for withdrawing its applications for .data and .art. The new gTLD .Art was won by UK Creative Ideas beating 9 other applicants in a private auction including Minds + Machines .Data is still showing on ICANN site as being in contention between Minds + Machines (Top Level Domain Holdings) with Donuts and Dish Networks but apparently that string has been ... read more ...
Thu 30th July 2015
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Minds + Machines To Register Up To 30K New gTLD Premium Domains Under Emerald Names - Minds + Machines announced they are going through the process of registering up to 30,000 Premium Names from across its wholly-owned portfolio of TLDs through its wholly-owned entity, Emerald Names, “so as to raise the visibility of its inventory amongst the broker and registrar channel, as well as with consumers”. “As a result, these Premium Names will resolve to a “for sale” web site, whereas previously they returned a “not found” error when typed into a browser. These Premium ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2015
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Carlsberg Group joins Minds + Machines Pioneer Program For .Beer; Gets 150 Domains - Minds + Machines, (LSE:MMX), announced today that Carlsberg, “the world-renowned brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program“. Carlsberg has secured over 150 .beer domains, in a portfolio that includes their most popular brands such as baltika.beer, tuborg.beer, holsten.beer and kronenbourg.beer, as well as a variety of generic premium .beer names for use in future marketing projects and campaigns. Niels Lund-Johansen, Carlsberg Group IP Director, is quoted as saying: “As one ... read more ...
Thu 25th June 2015
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Two Founding Members of Minds + Machines Re-join a Board. - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), announced today that two founding members David Weill and Guy Elliott will re-join the Boardas non-exec directors. Antony Van  Couvering, the chief executive, said: “We are delighted that both Guy and David have accepted the board’s invitation to re-join the board. “They bring a close understanding of the investment community, both in London and internationally, and are personally invested in the company. “We believe they will complement the industry and operational ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
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Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn resources underneath management - Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of the last announcement at 8.7%. Mr. Krueger owned some 15.9% of the shares of the company before his announcement and so he has sold, a little less than 50% of his shares. According to its website: “Established in 1934 to administer the estates of Alexander ... read more ...
Mon 8th June 2015
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Minds + Machines Offering Free Domains In .Work & .Casa - According to an email we received today from Minds + Machines they are offering free domains in the new gTLD’s .Work .Casa only on the Minds + Machines Registrar “The offer is only valid for one more week, exclusively on Minds + Machines and the offer expires on  June 15th, 2015” The offer is valid for 10 .Work and 10 .Casa non-premium (standard names) domains “per customer” Under the offer the first year registration is free, and renews at $5/yr thereafter. Discount is applied at checkout. It’s ... read more ...
Fri 29th May 2015
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Co-Founder Fred Krueger Sells Over 10% Of His Shares of Minds + Machines -       Minds + Machines announced today that Fred Krueger informed the company that he sold 14,000,000 shares on May 28, 2015. Based on his last disclosed interest, Fred Krueger now owns 114,481,604 ordinary shares representing approximately 13.7% of the issued shares capital of the Company. On May 26th Mr. Krueger announced he was leaving the company as executive chairman and would be succeeded by Keith Teare at which time he owned 128,481,604 shares representing over 15% of the company. Shares ... read more ...
Tue 26th May 2015
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Minds + Machines Reports Earnings For 2014: Profit $22 Million: $46 Million in a Bank - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) reported its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Minds + Machines reported a profit before in 2014 of $22.06 million against a profit of $1.14 million in 2013, largely as a result of receiving $33.72 Million for withdrawing applications for new gTLD’s that were in private auctions. The company made $6.44 million in 2013 for withdrawing applications Revenue from registry and registrar services, and this totaled $1.92 Million in 2014, up from $56,000 the ... read more ...
 
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The Co-Founder Of Minds + Machines Fred Krueger Is Leaving The Company - Fred Krueger, executive chairman and co-founder of Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is stepping down according to a press release by the company today. Fred Krueger will be succeeded as chairman by Keith Teare, with the role now being a non-executive one. “”The changing of the guard marks the evolution of Minds + Machines from a company set up to take advantage of the liberalisation of generic top level domains (gTLDs) to one that offers both registry services – maintaining the database of all registered ... read more ...
Fri 22nd May 2015
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.GOP Video Promotes Use, But No Major Presidential Candidate Seems To Own One - In a new video posted by the .GOP registry, they boast about it being the only new gTLD owned by a political party and of course that is true, as the other political domain names, .Democrat, .Republican. .Vote and .Voting are owned by for profit non-affiliated registries. The .GOP gTLD is owned by Republican State Leadership Committee, Inc. an affiliate to the republican party. The video’s most talked about site is  StopHillary.Gop which is being forwarded to a .com; a site under GOP.com which ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2015
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.Fit Finishes 1st Day Of General Availability With 1,269 Domains - .Fit which launched into General Availability yesterday by Minds + Machines wound up with 1,269 domain names including selling some of those premium domain names we talked about yesterday. .Fit had less than 75 domains registered during the sunrise period by trademark holders so basically picked up 1,200 registrations yesterday. It appears trademark holders went in and picked up at least  8o more domains during EAP as both MarkMonitor and CSC Brand protection companies had about 40 registrations ... read more ...
Wed 29th April 2015
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.Fit Launches Today: Here's Our Picks For The Best Domains But They Are Not Cheap - The new gTLD .Fit is launching into general availability today and thought I would let you know my top picks because I won’t be registering any of them. .Fit seems to be a limited extension when it comes to natural terms as Fit is falling on the wrong side of the dot. However I did find some good domain names that are naturals,with .Fit,  the problem is they are pricey in my opinion. I did check out the Sunrise registrations for .Fit and found only 76. One of the best trademark terms would have ... read more ...
Wed 22nd April 2015
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Minds + Machines: Premium Names Are 3%.of Registrations; 25% of Revenue - Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), released some interesting information in a press release we received overnight. Premium Names accounts for approximately 3%. of Minds + Machines new gTLD registrations,  but accounts for 25% of its revenue. Minds + Machines also announced that they “hold a significant inventory of Premium Names across its gTLD portfolio and sees significant opportunities for recurring annual revenues in this area”. It is not clear from the PR whether the owned and operated ... read more ...
Fri 10th April 2015
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SnapNames Is Holding Auction of 36 Registry Owned .Yoga Domain Names - SnapNames.com is holding an auction of  36 .Yoga domain names. About 1/2 the domain names have a reserve range price of $1k or less. Many are at no reserve and only one domain has a high range reserve of $2,500 All of the 36 .Yoga domain names are owned by the registry, Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). The auction closes on May 4th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames.com normal closing rules. As of publication one domain, Practice.yoga has a bid,  but has not hit reserve. Here is the entire ... read more ...
Thu 9th April 2015
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.Wedding Winds Up With 1,254 Domain Registrations After It's First Day Of General Availability - Minds + Machines launched .Wedding into general availability yesterday where domain names could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period, .Wedding ended its first day of GA with 1,254 registrations according to ntldstats.com 1and1.com and Godaddy.com were the top two domain name registrars where .Wedding domain names were registered. .Wedding has variable pricing on premium domain names. You can see the list of ... read more ...