Tag Archives: top level domain holdings

Mon 17th March 2014
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RrSG provides justification to behind adult claims done opposite Minds + Machines - Communication shows that Web.com didn’t receive contract until after reservation program was live. Last month I wrote that ICANN’s Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) was questioning if Top Level Domain Holdings/Minds + Machines’ “Priority Registration System” complied with ICANN contracts. Issues around registry and registrar cross ownership and making sure registries provide equal opportunity to unaffiliated registrars are sure to pop up in coming years. ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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.Green and .Wedding row sets staid in multi-million dollar auctions - Two three-applicant contention sets are resolved. The .green and .wedding new top level domain name contention sets have been resolved in private auctions. It’s unclear which company won the .green auction as applications have not yet been withdrawn. However, Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) announced today it was on the losing end of that auction. It used the proceeds from losing .green to spend millions on .wedding. After accounting for the proceeds ... read more ...
Fri 31st January 2014
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TLDH raises $33.6 million for new tip turn domain name auctions - New TLD applicant building war chest to resolve contention sets. Top Level Domain Holdings, a publicly trade portfolio applicant for new TLDs, has conditionally raised £21 million (approximately US $33.6 million) to help it resolve new TLD contention sets. After the investment, the company will have over $48 million in cash available. This does not include an up to $15 million investment that will be used for resolving the contention set of one domain name it has ... read more ...
Fri 15th November 2013
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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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TLDH scores scarcely $5 million by losing dual domain name auctions - TLDH grows its cash pile thanks to losing two private auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings will add $4.81 million to its cash reserves as a result of losing private auctions for .website and .lawyer, the company announced today. $130,000 is from refunds for withdrawing its two applications, bringing the total auction proceeds down to $4.68 million. This doesn’t tell us too much about the winning bids for .website and .lawyer. There were three competitors for .website, ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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Four some-more new TLD row sets staid in private auctions - Donuts and Radix win auctions to settle four more new TLD contention sets. Innovative Auctions has helped settle four more top level domain name contention sets through its auction service. Donuts, by the far the largest applicant for new top level domains, won three auctions. It is now the sole applicant for .lawyer, .fish, and .discount. It beat Top Level Domain Holdings for .lawyer and beat Whatbox for .discount and .fish. (Interestingly, Whatbox’s application ... 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 ...
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 ...
Tue 20th August 2013
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TLDH walked divided from auction with 2 strings and cash - New top level domain applicant settles contention sets and walks away with more cash than it spent. Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) was initially opposed to the private auction model to settle top level domain name contention sets. That changed, and last week it probably felt validated by its decision. The company participated in four top level domain name auctions. It won two of them, and the net cash it received from the two losses was more than enough to pay for ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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TLDH to attend in 4 private domain auctions - Company will challenge three competitors in private auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings announced today that it will participate in 4 private auctions to settle top level domain contention sets. The four auctions will resolve these contention sets: .GUIDE (versus Donuts) .CASA (versus Donuts) .网址 (“web address” in Chinese) (versus HU YI GLOBAL INFORMATION RESOURCES) .FISHING (versus United TLD/Demand Media) Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) was initially opposed ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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TLDH: we’ll pointer the initial new TLD contracts by finish of Q1 2014 - New TLD applicants still far from generating revenue. ICANN signed its first registry agreements for new top level domains this week, but a press release from portfolio applicant Top Level Domain Holdings is a reminder that many new TLDs are a long way to fruition. The release states: Top Level Domain Holding anticipates contracts will be signed with ICANN for the first nine uncontested domain applications in which it has an interest before the end of Q1 2014, with ... 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 ...
Mon 3rd June 2013
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TLDH raises $10 million for new TLDs - New TLD applicant issues new shares to raise money, also confirms possibility of participating in private new TLD auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings Limited, parent company of Minds + Machines, has conditionally raised $10 million. The company today conditionally placed 110,375,276 new ordinary shares at 6p per share. The money will be used as additional working capital, with much of it earmarked for settling contention sets. The press release also confirms what ... read more ...
 
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TLDH explains the change of heart on private domain auctions - Antony Van Couvering explains why it believes private TLD auctions make sense. Up until last week, it appeared that Top Level Domain Holdings, one of the largest new TLD applicants, would not participate in private auctions for TLDs. But that changed, and now TLDH/Minds+Machines CEO Antony Van Couvering has published an explanation for the reversal. It’s worth reading the explanation in its entirety. One of the key reasons for TLDH’s opinion: applicants will ... 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, TLDH strike understanding to run .country - Two companies will take equal equity in joint venture to run .country top level domain name. The two applicants for the top level domain name .country have entered into an agreement to partner, rather than fight, over .country. Top Level Domain Holdings issued a press release this morning announcing the deal between its company and Frank Schilling’s company, Uniregistry. This is the first publicly announced agreement that will resolve a contention set, as no other ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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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 gets adult to $15 million for a singular tip turn domain name auction - TLDH and investor are going big on one top level domain. Top Level Domain Holdings Limited announced it has received up to $15 million in backing to be used to chase a single top level domain at auction. The money is strictly for bidding in an auction for one undisclosed TLD. Not disclosing which domain the funding is for was a brilliant move. Now companies in a contention set with TLDH will have to worry about which domain TLDH will have this warchest for. The money ... read more ...
Thu 1st November 2012
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For new TLD companies, round finally gets rolling - Applicant talks revenue and jobs — two things mostly missing from new TLD companies so far. Finally. After years and years of false starts, it looks like the business engine behind new top level domains is starting to fire up. That’s certainly the case with the only publicly traded pure-play new top level domain company: Top Level Domain Holdings Inc. (TLDH). The company put out a press release late yesterday explaining what it thinks will happen over the coming ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Peter Dengate Thrush’s greeting to today’s tip turn domain reveals - Former ICANN chairman notes some surprises today, but says he’s still digesting all of the data. Peter Dengate Thrush was chairman of ICANN’s board when it finally approved the new top level domain plan. Now he’s with Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH), which is one of the biggest applicants for new top level domains. It is applying for 68 on its own accord and 92 in total. I just got off the phone with Dengate Thrush and asked him what the biggest surprises were ... read more ...
Tue 22nd May 2012
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How large is a new TLD opportunity? TLDH valued during $60 million - Publicly traded new TLD company has a solid market value. Top Level Domain Holdings, a pure play company focused on new top level domains, has a market cap of around £ 39 million. That’s over $60 million USD. We’re talking about a company that basically has no revenue. So far it has just been spending on the new TLD process. As of last February the company had about £ 15 million in cash. A lot of that has surely been spent since then. But to be conservative, ... read more ...
Mon 18th July 2011
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Former ICANN Chairman Joins Minds + Machines - Peter Dengate Thrush joins publicly traded company poised to profit from new top level domain names. That was quick. Less than a month after pushing through a vote approving the new top level domain name program at his last meeting as ICANN Chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush has joined a company applying for new top level domain names. Dengate Thrush will join Top Level Domain Holdings (parent company of Minds + Machines) as Executive Chairman. His compensation package ... read more ...
Thu 15th April 2010
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Top Level Domain Holdings Reports Annual Financial Results - New top level domain company reports financial results. Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH) today reported financial results for the year ending October 31, 2009. TLDH is parent company of new TLD consulting company Minds + Machines. For the year, TLDH lost about £1.4M on revenue of £0.315M. Much of its revenue was from a portfolio of domain names and two web sites including an iPhone app review site. In November it sold its entire portfolio of mainly ... read more ...
Mon 12th April 2010
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New Top Level Domain Trademark Frontrunning Battle Heats Up - .Eco trademark fight heats up, but pot is calling the kettle black. In June I wrote about how companies wanting to apply for new top level domain names were attempting to file trademarks on non-existent top level domain names. One of the examples I gave was .eco. At the time, Colored Planet Connextion appeared close to getting a trademark approved. Canadian company Big Room also filed an application for the .eco mark. While both of these groups want to launch a ... read more ...