Tag Archives: TLDH

Fri 21st March 2014
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Top Level Domain Holdings Starts Trading Under Minds + Machines Today - Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (“TLDH”) has officially changed its name to and started trading today under Minds + Machines Group Limited From today, the Company’s shares will trade uwith the EPIC ticker symbol, MMX. Fred Krueger, Chairman of the Group, commented: “We are delighted to be now fully grouped under the banner of our operating businesses, Minds + Machines. It not only reflects the Board’s confidence in the prospects of our registry and registrar operations but will create ... read more ...
Wed 18th December 2013
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12 Registrar Signup With TLDH; 7 With Minds + Machines; 25 New gTLD To Launch 1Q - The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) announced the company has  Registry-Registrar Agreements (“RRA’s”) with an initial twelve ICANN-accredited registrars in the US, Europe and Asia. The Company plans to expand its registrar network in 2014 to complement its own direct sales channel to market through its wholly-owned registrar, Minds + Machines Registrar Limited. Of the initial 12 registrars that have signed RRAs, 7 have signed up with Minds + Machines OPEN Priority Reservation ... read more ...
Thu 5th December 2013
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Here Are My First 3 New gTLD Registrations & How we Can Register Your New gTLD’s Now. - At ICANN I had a chance to get a personal tour of MindsandMachines.com new domain registrar site. Mindsandmachines.com which is part of Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH), a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange, applied for 100 or so new gTLD’s and recently launched its own domain name registrar site. Not only can you register domain names on five new gTLD’s  extensions; Casa, .CEO, .Best, .Cooking and .Horse, but also .com .net and .org registrations. Since MindsandMachines.com ... read more ...
Mon 18th November 2013
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TLDH launches “Priority Registration” use for new TLDs, starting during €29.95 - Service makes it easy to get first in line for some new TLDs, although premium pricing does apply. Top Level Domain Holdings has released a system for pre-registering new top level domain names, called Priority Registration. The service is enabled through the company’s Online Priority Enhanced Names database (“OPEN”) at the company’s own domain name registrar, Minds + Machines. It is also open for other domain registrars and registries to link into. It’s ... read more ...
Fri 15th November 2013
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.London All Over The News Today As Its Signs Contract With ICANN - The new gTLD .London is all over news today as the Board of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) reported that its client, Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has signed the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) allowing the new top level domain, .LONDON,  to proceed to the final round of pre-delegation testing before being introduced into the Internet’s root zone in 2014. Dot London is a subsidiary of London Partners, the official promotional ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Holdings batch adult 25% on .London news, adult 3x given final month - TLDH on fire as new top level domain names get closer to reality. Shares in Top Level Domain Holdings skyrocketed 25% today after the company announced ICANN had signed the contract for the .london top level domain name. TLDH is the backend registry for .london. Shares in TLDH were up 3.62 pence to 17.88 pence on the London Stock Exchange. There were also two “price monitoring extensions”. This extension is “activated when the matching process would have otherwise ... read more ...
Fri 25th October 2013
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Losing Private New gTLD Auctions For .Lawyer & .Website Net Top Level Domain Holdings $4.8 Million - Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) said  by losing the  private auctions for .website and .lawyer, which concluded on Oct. 23, it will add £2.97m ($4.81m) to its cash reserves. The 14 previous new gTLD private auctions held by ApplicantAuction.com, totaled $18.9 in winning bids or around $1.33 million per string. This week ApplicantAuction.com declined to furnish a total amount raised in the auction for 4 string auctioned, telling theDomains.com that they would not be furnishing a total this ... read more ...
Wed 23rd October 2013
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Shares of Top Level Domain Holdings spike - TLDH shares almost double in price. Shares in new top level domain name applicant Top Level Domain Holdings have double in recent days. The stock is currently trading on the London Stock Exchange for 10.25p. Shares were trading for less than 6.00p last Friday. It’s not immediately clear to me why the shares have jumped. It could be because a couple research reports for the stock came out this week. It could also be because new top level domain names, TLDH’s business, ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
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Radix, TLDH & Westerdal Asks ICANN To Suspend All Pending Expert Panels In New gTLD Process - Three large applicants to the new gTLD program sent a letter to ICANN yesterday to complaint about the Experts appointed by The Dispute Resolution Service Providers relating to the Community Objection process especially those at the ICC and asked ICANN to “ask all contracted arbitrators to temporarily suspend their decision making until ICANN can conduct a basic level of training for the actual Expert Panels on the AGB guidelines and their interpretations.” “Only Experts who are successfully ... read more ...
Mon 26th August 2013
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planet.ECO loses conflict opposite TLDH for .eco tip turn domain name - TLDH gets a victory in fight over .eco. The latest salvo in the fight for the .eco top level domain name has been successfully defended by Top Level Domain Holdings. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel denied planet.ECO, LLC’s Legal Rights Objection against TLDH for .eco. planet.ECO has a U.S. trademark for .eco, which was granted because the applicant shielded the fact that it was to be used for a top level domain name. Panelist Luca Barbero determined ... read more ...
Thu 15th August 2013
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Looks Like 1st New gTLD Private Auction For This Week Is Over As Donuts Loses & TLDH Wins .Casa - It appears that the 1st of this weeks private auctions being held by Applicant Auction is completed as Donuts has withdrawn its application for .Casa on the ICANN website. Donuts application for .Casa has a prioritization number of 1,622 and has not yet passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE)  meaning that Donuts will get 70% refund of their $185,000 application fee. The only other applicant for .Casa is Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) which had a prioritization number of 171 which appears ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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Next Round Of New gTLD Private Auctions Take Place This Week TLDH Is in 4 Of Them -   The 2nd round of the private new gTLD auctions to resolve contention being run by Applicant Auction takes place this week starting Tuesday and a second participant has stepped forward to publicly say they are participating. Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) is participating in private auctions for .GUIDE, .CASA, .网址 (which means web address in Chinese) and .FISHING. Donuts the largest applicant for new gTLD announced a few weeks ago that they were committing 68 new gTLD’s that they applied ... read more ...
Fri 2nd August 2013
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TLDH and Tucows group adult on 3 tip turn domain names - Two TLD applicants pool resources. Top Level Domain Holdings and Tucows are combining resources in an effort to lock down three top level domain names that are in contention sets. Tucows had applied for .group and TLDH applied for .tech and .store. By teaming up, each company will contribute to auction funds and take a minority interest in each others’ strings. Their amount of ownership will depend on how much money they contribute for the auctions. While the companies ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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TLDH and Famous Four strike understanding to solve 3 new TLD row sets - Deal resolves contention sets for .fit, .review, and .science. Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) and Famous Four Media (and associated companies) have made a deal to resolve three contention sets. Under the terms of the deal, Famous Four has withdrawn its application for .fit, leaving TLDH as the only applicant for the string. In return, TLDH has withdrawn its applications for .review and .science. Famous Four will pay a royalty to TLDH on .review revenue. This ... read more ...
Tue 25th June 2013
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Do We Have Our 1st New gTLD Application Trade? 4 More Applications Withdrawn - Do we have our first new gTLD application trade? Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) withdrew two applications tonight one for .Review which had a prioritization number of 492 and its application for .Science which had a prioritization number of 924, leaving Famous Four as the sole remaining applicant for each of those extensions. Famous Four withdrew its 1st new gTLD application for .Fit leaving Top Level Domain Holdings as the sole applicant. Was it a trade or just a coincidence? We have reached out ... read more ...
Mon 3rd June 2013
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TLDH Raises Another $10 Million For New gTLD Auctions - Top Level Domain Holdings just annoucned they have raised an additional $10 million (approximately £6.6 million) conditionally raised from institutional and other investors and directors for new gTLD auctions and to be used for launch and marketing of .london. “”The Board of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L), is pleased to announce that the Company has today conditionally placed 110,375,276 new ordinary shares (the “Ordinary Shares”) through N+1 Singer as broker to the Company ... read more ...
Tue 30th April 2013
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Top Level Domain Holdings releases financials by December - TLDH releases annual report and earnings. Top Level Domain Holdings, the only publicly traded pure-play top level domain applicant, today released its annual report and audited financials for the fourteen month period ending December 2012 (pdf). The company ended 2012 with £2.418 million in cash and cash equivalents on its books. That’s down from £7.074 million at the end of 2011. That’s not a lot of cash with which to fight over contested strings, but the ... read more ...
Mon 29th April 2013
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Uniregistry and TLDH Team Up on The New gTLD .Country - According to a press release just out Uniregistry which is headed by Frank Schilling and Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) which both applied for the new gTLD .Country have struck a deal As Uniregistry and TLDH are the only two applicants for the new gTLD .Country the two companies have decided to split the new gTLD to end contention and avoid an ICANN last resort auciton “”Under the contemplated arrangement, both parties would enjoy a 50% equity stake in a new company, to which the .country ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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TLDH Withdrawing 4 New gTLD Applications: .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu - According to a press release we received this morning, The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) issued an update to its new gTLD application with the biggest news out of the release is that it is withdrawing 4 of its new gTLD application TLDH announced that is decided to withdraw its application for .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu. Those withdrawals are not reflected on ICANN’s site. “We are pleased to announce that the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ... read more ...
 
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GAC Advice leads to TLDH withdrawing 4 new TLD applications - Major new TLD applicant says it will withdraw four applications after discussions with governments. Top Level Domain Holdings, a publicly traded pure play applicant for new top level domains (London: TLDH), plans to withdraw four of its top level domain applications after receiving government advice. In a release issued today, the company writes: The GAC strongly advised against four gTLDs, none of which TLDH applied for. Another 513 gTLDs were given some kind of ... read more ...
Tue 26th February 2013
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TLDH (Minds + Machines) Gets Additional $15M In Funding For New gTLD Auctions - According to a press release we were sent today by Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH), better known to the domain community as Mind + Machines, the Company “has agreed a funding facility to support its participation in a prospective auction in relation to a specific contested gTLD application”. “The conditional funding will be provided solely in exchange for a perpetual share in the gross revenue generated by the gTLD string so funded (“Auction gTLD”) should the Company be successful ... read more ...
Wed 19th December 2012
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Top Level Domain Holdings: Pleased With ICANN Drawning & Announces Results - In a press release today, The Directors Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) the holding company of  Minds + Machines “are delighted to announce the results of ICANN’s Prioritization Draw that concluded Monday evening in Los Angeles.” The directors are pleased that three of TLDH’s five geographic applications were in the top third of the Prioritization Draw. Antony Van Couvering, CEO of TLDH commented: “ICANN’s evaluation process for the gTLD programme is now making rapid progress. As a ... read more ...
Mon 11th June 2012
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TLDH: Digital archery might have technical bugs - Big new top level domain applicant finds odd results with digital archery system. Digital archery, which creates a secondary timestamp for new TLD applications that will determine how they are batched, is run through ICANN’s TLD Application System (TAS). This is the same system that was taken offline for over a month due to a security glitch that allowed some competing applicants to see limited data from other applicants. So you don’t suppose there could be problems ... read more ...
Fri 1st June 2012
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Here are TLDH’s 68 tip turn domain applications - TLDH applies for 68 top level domains on its own behalf. Top Level Domain Holdings has submitted 92 applications for top level domains. It submitted 68 applications on its own behalf and an additional 24 with partners or for others. TLDH is the company that picked up Peter Dengate Thrush after he left ICANN’s board. It owns Minds + Machines. Here are the company’s own 68 applications. 1. abogado 2. .app 3. .art 4. .baby 5. .beauty 6. .beer 7. .blog 8. .book 9. ... read more ...
 
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DNW’s new TLD roundup: a good, a bad and a funny - From brands to portfolio players, here’s a look at what we know so far. The “big reveal” of who applied for what top level domains isn’t until June 13. But that didn’t stop a lot of companies from making their own announcements over the 36 hours since the application window closed. Here’s my roundup and analysis: Google Google announced four domains it is applying for, but AdAge reports the company is applying for upwards of 50 domain names. The announcement ... read more ...