Tag Archives: Minds+Machines

Wed 1st April 2015
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Minds + Machines Names Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law CEO of .Law - Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX), the owner of the new .Law top-level domain, today announced the appointment of Lou Andreozzi, former Chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, Martindale Hubbell and lawyers.com, as CEO of .Law. Carl Jaeckel, founder of Lawyer Central and CMO of Morgan Morgan will also join as COO and John Morgan, Founder of Morgan Morgan, renowned businessman, philanthropist and political power broker will serve as Chairman. Minds + Machines has ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2015
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Minds + Machines Grants 36,950,000 Shares in New Options; Closing in on a Billion Shares - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), has today agreed to award in aggregate 36,950,000 new options over ordinary shares to directors and officers of the Company. The option grants are issued under the Company’s Amended 2012 Stock Plan. The options have an exercise price of 8.49 pence per Ordinary Share, being the higher of the 30 day volume weighted average on the date immediately prior to  the recommendation of the remuneration committee and the date of formal grant by the Board. The ... read more ...
Tue 24th February 2015
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Minds + Machines Generates £2.29m From Operations: $36m From Losing Private gTLD Auctions & Spends $25.9M Winning -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that sole around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in Dec 2015 and now owns around 5K domain names . Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains. Michael was also one of a 5 Judges comparison for a a Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com competition this year.

Via: thedomains.com

Fri 13th February 2015
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Minds + Machines Pockets $3.5+ Million By Losing .Blog & .Store: Now Has $48 Million In a Bank - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) announced today that it added £2.3 Million, which is over $3.5 Million In USD, by withdrawing its applications for .Blog and .Store to settle those new gTLD’s in private auctions Minds + Machines’ cash holdings have risen to US $48 Million (£31.9mln). Minds + Machines also announced they won the new gTLD .DDS in a private auction with Google, although they didn’t say how much they paid for that extension DDS is an acronym of Doctor of Dental Surgery and “M + M ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2015
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Quiksilver Ready To Surf The New gTLD Wave - Brand Channel published an article today about Quiksilver, the largest surfwear brand in the world, adding a .surf into the mix. The company released a press release that they were going to use the new gtld for social media (they have millions of followers) and to differentiate their business segments. This is how I have envisioned new gtlds being used, the .com or cctld being the hub and then using new gtlds as satellites for campaigns or certain business segments. Roxy is a sister brand of Quiksilver ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2014
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Minds + Machines Pockets Another $4.4 Million & Has $45 Million In Cash - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that “following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction fees and includes refunds that the Company will receive from ICANN for withdrawing its applications. Cash ... read more ...
Tue 4th November 2014
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Minds + Machines Says They Are Pleased With New gTLD Results; Investors Not So Much - Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) in a story published by proactiveinvestors.co.uk today saying “it is pleased with the revenues from its emerging portfolio of generic top level domains.” “Around US$4 Million has been generated by the new domains M+M is involved with and, according to analysts, the AIM group’s share is around £300,000 for the first half of 2014, driven mostly from .London domain name registrations M+M operates .London on behalf of London Partners, the city’s promotional body. “Industry ... read more ...
Sat 1st November 2014
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Minds + Machines Has More Outstanding Shares Than Google & Verisign Combined - I noticed this statement that was released by Minds + Machines (AIM:MMX) this week about the amount of shares it has issued and outstanding: “The Board of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announces that as at the date of this announcement, the total number of shares in issue with voting rights is 831,969,485. “ So almost  832 Million shares. That is a of of shares I checked out how many shares Verisign  (VRSN) the company that runs the .com and .net registry had issued and outstanding ... read more ...
Sat 18th October 2014
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Fred Krueger Exercises Option To Acquire 5 Million Shares Of Minds + Machines For 4p - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today, that Frederick Krueger, a director of the Company, has today exercised options to subscribe for 5,000,000 new Ordinary Shares at a price of 4p per new Ordinary Share. Shares of Minds + Machines closed in trading today at 9.63p, having a 52 week high of 19.38p and a 52-week Low of 5.38p. Frederick Krueger held options to subscribe for 5,000,000 new Ordinary Shares which, if not exercised, would otherwise have expired on November 13, 2014 and ... read more ...
Thu 2nd October 2014
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Minds + Machines Says .Law & .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer) Will Only Be For Lawyers - Minds + Machines, which won the private auction for .Law a couple of weeks ago announced that .Law and .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer, M+M was the only applicant for .Adogado) are expected to launch in early 2015. Both .Law and .Abogado will be restricted to licensed lawyers or law firms, and all initial applications and renewals will be examined to verify that the registrant’s license is current. To be eligible for a name as a law firm, the firm must provide legal services and a partner or equivalent ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
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Minds + Machines Reports: Sales Increase 4,114%; Revenue 255%; Shares Are Up 9.5% -       Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) issued its financial report for the six months ending  June 30, 2014 today. Total sales increased 4,114% to £295,000 against £7,000 for the same period in 2013;  Operating profit was up 255% at £2.92 million against a 2013 loss of £1.88million,  and wound up with £20 Million  in the bank as of June 30th up from £9 Million  as of the end of December 31st, 2013 You can read the full report here. Operational Highlights: ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Wins .Law & .Vip; Loses 5 Auctions & Pockets $6.2 Million -     Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce today that it won the new gTLD auctions for the new domain name extensions .Law and .Vip and lost private auctions for .Design, .Flowers, .Group, .Realestate and .Video and pocketed approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million). The net cash to the Minds + Machines includes the amounts paid for .Vip and .Law, and is also net of auction fees and refunds that the Company received from ICANN for withdrawing applications. The Company also participated ... read more ...
Wed 10th September 2014
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.London Winds Up With Just Over 35,500 Domain Names After Its 1st Day; .Global 1,638 - One of the best and most anticipated new gTLD domain name extensions went into general availability (GA) yesterday as .London wound up with over 35,500 registered domain names .London wound up with 35,557 domain names registered after its first day of general availability according to ntldstats.com. However .London had over 24,000 domains before GA, in Sunrise for trademark holders and several phases for residents and businesses located in London. I would say the 11,000 additional domain names in ... read more ...
Thu 7th August 2014
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Minds + Machines Adopts Compensation “Restricted Stock Unit Plan” For Up To 12.5% Of Its Shares - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today “that it has adopted a new share incentive scheme”. “As set out in the Company’s Readmission document published earlier this year, the Company has been considering implementing a replacement incentive compensation scheme across the Group for its directors and employees to better attract, retain and reward employees. Employee attraction and retention are key factors for MMX as it continues to build its operations and launch gTLDs, ... read more ...
Fri 25th July 2014
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Minds + Machines Issues 350K Shares To Employee during 9P Stock trade At 11.50P - According to a regulatory filing, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announces that it has issued 350,000 new Ordinary Shares following exercise by an employee of 350,000 share options at an exercise price of 9p per share. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares and application will be made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM which is expected to occur on or ... read more ...
Thu 17th July 2014
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After 8 Months we Finally Get A Notice On The New gTLD Paid Orders With Minds+Machines - Back In December 2013, I placed some paid pre-orders for some .Horse domain names and wrote a blog post about it. At the time we noted that what MindsandMachines.com says about these domain name registrations which are live on their site: “This is Not an “Expression of Interest” but a real reservation. The master list of reservations is kept by the registry, the authoritative source. A registrar can only hold your place in “their” line — and they have to compete with other registrars ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2014
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Shares Of Minds + Machines Sink On News Of Its Expensive .Fashion Auction Win - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced overnight that it acquired the new gTLD .Fashion at a price that exceed almost all the money it received from losing the new gTLD applications for .cricket, .pizza, .restaurant, .coupon and .immo. In essesence according to the company it gave up rights to 5 new gTLD strings for .Fashion and £250,000. Shares of Mind + Machines sank today in trading over 7.5% down to 10.75P in trading today Fred Krueger, Chairman of Minds + Machines, commented: “We ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions - Minds + Machines Group, the company, formerly known as Top Level Domain Holdings, (LON:MMX) released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD strings it applied for. During 2013 M+M participated in six private auctions in which it netted £4.1m, in addition to picking up two more new gTLD Strings .fishing and .casa CEO Antony Van Couvering ... read more ...
Wed 7th May 2014
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Investor In Minds + Machines Sells Over 22.5 Million Shares Representing 2.8% Of Shares - According to a press release just out, it seems a major investor in Minds + Machines has sold over 22.5 Million shares in the past 2 weeks. “The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) were notified by Guy Elliot on May 7th 2014 that following disposals between April 22nd and May 6th; Guy Elliott and the Elliott Family Irrevocable Trust 22,686,350 ordinary shares representing 2.8% of the issued share capital of the Company.” The press release did not say if these shareholder sold ... read more ...
Fri 11th April 2014
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Minds + Machines Heading Off To Private Auction To Settle At Least 3 More New gTLD’s - The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced today that they will be participating in a minimum of three top-level domain (“TLD”) private auctions will be held on April 22md, 2014 and be conducted by Applicant Auction, Inc. The new gTLDs the Company will definitely be bidding for in this round are .garden, .property, and .yoga. The Company expects the format and rules for each of these TLD auctions to broadly follow earlier private auctions administered by Applicant ... read more ...
Thu 3rd April 2014
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Minds + Machines Issues New gTLD Update - In a press release sent out overnight, “The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) are pleased to provide an update on the launch programme of its portfolio of new top-level domains and the expansion of its registrar sales channel activity.” “gTLD Launch Programme On 1 April 2014, the first five of Minds + Machines wholly owned gTLD’s, .FISHING, .VODKA, .RODEO, .COOKING and .HORSE, as well as .COUNTRY in which the Company has a joint venture interest, were delegated into the ... read more ...
Tue 4th March 2014
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TLDH Formally Announces Appointment Of Elliot Noss Of Tucows As “Non-Executive Director” - According to a press release out today, the Board of Top Level Domain Holdings announced the formal appointment of Mr Elliot Noss as a non-executive director of TLDH with immediate effect. Mr Noss is President and CEO of Tucows, Inc (NASDAQ:TCX), one of the larger domain registrars, and has served in such capacity since the completion of Tucows, Inc’s merger with Tucows Delaware in August 2001. From May 1999 until completion of the merger in August 2001, Mr Noss served as President and Chief Executive ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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Minds+Machines Wins Private Auction For .Wedding Loses .Green Costing a Net of Over $2.3M - Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) said on Tuesday it has won won the private auction for the new gTLD .Wedding and lost the auction for .Green The net cost of securing .Wedding after losing .Green was $2,321,300.00 The figure quoted includes funds it will receive from its unsuccessful participation in the auction of the .GREEN domain name as well as a rebate from  ICANN for its withdrawal of its application for .Green The other applicants for .Green were Rightside and Afilias one of which ... read more ...
Mon 17th February 2014
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“Exciting Times for TLD Holdings as .London Launch Looms” - ProactiveInvestors.co.uk did a small write up on TLD Holdings the company which just recently raised another $33 million and said they would change their name to Minds+Machines. The stock is up 11% today, of course the stock trades for a very low price so it does not take much to get a large percentage move. I can say this is a perfect example of procrastination on my part, as I constantly was having discussion with a couple friends when the stock was at 5 1/2 pence. I felt it was a cheap hedge in ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2009
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ICANN May Consider Pre-Applications for New Top Level Domain Names - New TLD backers to propose plan for parallel processes. There are a lot of uncertainties about new top level domain names, including how many applications will actually be submitted and what they will be for. This affects a number of things — root scaling, trademark concerns, and geo TLD concerns. For example, if it turns out only 50 TLD applications will be received, root scaling might not be an issue. With that, it looks like the community of likely new TLD ... read more ...