Registry Services for New Top-Level Domains
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Minds + Machines provides registry services for new top-level domains. With experience in launching over 20 top-level domains, and the most widely deployed registry platform in the world, powering over 30 top-level domains, the Minds + Machines team can break down the process of starting a new top-level domain into understandable and actionable steps. Our simple and inexpensive flat-rate pricing includes help with the ICANN application as well as registry services for an unlimited number of names (some exclusions apply). We work with entrepreneurs, cities and brands to make the process of launching new top-level domains easy and affordable. Minds + Machines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Top Level Domain Holdings, Ltd.
About Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
Top Level Domain Holding is a publicly traded company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: TLDH.L). TLDH is focused on the new top-level domain space and makes targeted investments in the new top-level domain space, focusing on both infrastructure technologies and specific top-level domains.
Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) today announced the following updates on further development of its sales channels to consumers, Minds + Machines' OPEN Priority Reservation program, and progress within its portfolio of gTLDs. more»
Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) has signed contracts with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") for five new top-level domains (gTLDs) wholly-owned by the Company: .horse, .cooking, .casa, .fishing, and .budapest. more»
Top Level Domain Holdings announces a major expansion of the Group's activities with the launch of a Priority Reservation service available to consumers through its wholly-owned registrar business, Minds + Machines Registrar Limited. more»
Following the private auctions for .website and .lawyer, which concluded late on 23 October 2013, Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) will add £2.97 million (US$4.81 million) to its cash reserves. more»
Top Level Domain Holdings announce that the Company has secured the sole application rights for .fishing and .casa after winning last week's private auctions for the two strings. The Company was outbid on .guide and .网址 ("web address" in Chinese). more»
TLDH will be participating in four private auctions starting Tuesday, 13 August for the contested strings .guide, .casa, .网址("web address" in Chinese) and .fishing. In each instance the Company will be bidding against single competitors, there being just two companies participating in each of the four auctions. more»
The directors of TLDH announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Tucows, Inc., a leading global domain name and Internet services provider, to partner in the anticipated auctions for the .store, .tech and .group top-level domains. more»
TLDH now has interests in 23 uncontested applications, including 15 wholly/majority owned applications, 6 where it is acting as the registry service provider for client applications, 1 equal joint venture, and 1 where it will receive a minority revenue share. more»
As at 7 June 2013, ICANN's evaluation panels had reviewed and passed 36 of the 88 applications filed by TLDH and its clients. IE of all applications is expected to be completed by August 2013, ICANN's evaluation panels having completed their review of 632 applications (out of 1,930 applications) as at 7 June. more»
The Board of TLDH (AIM: TLDH.L) announces that ICANN's String Similarity Panel has determined none of the strings for which it is the sole applicant will be placed in contention sets with other strings. more»
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited, the parent company of Minds + Machines, has signed a funding agreement that will help it compete for a specific string at auction in exchange for a share of revenue if it wins it. more»
Three of TLDH's five geographical top-level domains in the top third of draw -- .London, .budapest, and .nrw; Directors anticipate a significant number of its applied-for strings, and those of its clients, to go live in 2013. more»
The Directors are pleased to announce that Minds + Machines received only a small number of early warnings with regard to its new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications from members of the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). more»
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM: TLDH.L) today announces its unaudited interim results for the 6 months ended 30 April 2012 (the "Period").
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The window to submit new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) applications to ICANN closed on 30 May 2012. TLDH has submitted 92 applications in total on behalf of clients and its own account. In addition to geographical names, the Company's applications included the areas of sports, lifestyles, ecology, entertainment, culture and ethnicity and professions. more»
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited has applied to ICANN for the .BUDAPEST gTLD with the exclusive support of the City of Budapest. Should the application be successful, Top Level Domain Holding's wholly owned registry services company, Minds + Machines, will provide the back-end registry services for the proposed new domain. more»
Minds + Machines, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L) has been appointed by FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, to provide back-end registry services for FIBA's proposed .BASKETBALL generic top level domain ("gTLD"). more»
Minds + Machines was chosen by the International Rugby Board (IRB) to be the registry services provider for the new dot Rugby gTLD. TLDH, our parent company, will work with ROAR Domains to help with the administration of the gTLD, while Minds + Machines will provide backend registry services on its Espresso platform. more»
The Contract, won by Minds and Machines Limited through a competitive tender process, is for a seven year period (the "Term"), with a three year renewal period which is subject to certain conditions. more»
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited announced today that it has signed a joint venture agreement with LHL TLD Investment Partners of Beverly Hills California ("LHL") to apply for the .music top level domain under the gTLD programme being run by the Internet's governing body, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"). more»
On 7 March 2012, the Commissioners of the City of Miami voted 4-0 to accept the proposal from Minds + Machines and requested Minds + Machines to begin work on the application for .MIAMI immediately. more»
The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L) announced today that Minds + Machines GmbH, its majority owned registry services business, has been appointed by the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) to manage the dot NRW top level domain application and the ongoing management of the dot NRW domain. more»
Minds + Machines, a wholly owned registry services business of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited, has been appointed by India TL Domain Pvt Ltd ("ITLD"), with the exclusive approval of the city of Bruhat Bangaluru (Bangalore), to provide registry and consulting services for ITLD's proposed application for the generic top-level domain .BANGALURU. more»
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited reports the Company will shortly be purchasing a second batch of 20 application slots for new gTLDs from ICANN, following which the total application slots purchased by the Company to date on behalf of itself and clients of Minds + Machines will amount to 40. more»
The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited has announced that the Company has today conditionally placed 109,468,353 new ordinary shares (the "Ordinary Shares") at a placing price of 8.25p per Ordinary Share (the "Placing Price") with institutional and other investors to raise £9,031,139 before expenses (equivalent to approximately US$14.2 million at current exchange rates) subject to admission (the "Placing"). more»
Top Level Domain Holdings' wholly owned registry services company, Minds+Machines, will provide the back-end registry services for the proposed new domain. Revenue to the Company will be based on a share of the revenues generated by the domain. more»
Silicon Valley Watcher, run by former Financial Times correspondent Tom Foremski, has published an interview with the Chairman of Top Level Domain Holdings, Peter Dengate Thrush. more»
ICANN's current plan for a Continued Operations Instrument (COI) is a self-insurance scheme that asks domain name registries to tie up a massive amount of cash, when much cheaper and more sensible options are available. The COI is a massive barrier to entry for all applicants. more»
The announcement came at a meeting of the International Trademark Association in Washington DC, where members gathered to discuss the new gTLD program from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), due to begin on January 12, 2012. With time running short, brand owners must soon decide whether and how to apply for a new gTLD. more»
ICANN has been quiet lately, very quiet. It has been making everyone nervous and leaving the field open to ICANN's enemies, which has in turn encouraged domain industry hacks to resort to long "think pieces" in the absence of news -- always a cause for concern. more»
Minds + Machines is a sponsor of the Trademarks and the Internet conference put on by the International Trademark Association (INTA) in Washington DC this coming week on Wednesday and Thursday (September 21st and 22nd); will introduce a new program for brand owners who have decided to apply for a new gTLD. more»
On August 8, 2011 Interactive Investor interviewed Anthony Van Couvering and Peter Dengate Thrush on ICANN’s ruling to introduce new domains on the Internet and how Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) will deliver on this. more»
The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM: TLDH.L), the only publicly traded company focused exclusively on acquiring and operating new generic top-level domains ("gTLD"), are delighted to announce that Mr Peter Dengate Thrush has been appointed Executive Chairman of the Company with immediate effect. more»
Under the non-exclusive arrangement, Minds + Machines will refer applicants for new top-level domains (TLDs) to Right of the Dot for high-value premium domain consulting services, and Right of the Dot will refer clients seeking top-level domain registry services to Minds + Machines. more»
Last week, we put out a press release announcing new pricing for top-level domain registry services. We called it "revolutionary." Really? The Internet revolution proclaimed by ICANN last week will only happen if there are enough cool, useful, or experimental TLDs to justify the mantra of choice and innovation that accompanied the approval of new gTLD program. more»
Minds + Machines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Top Level Domain Holdings (London AIM, TLDH.L) today announced new pricing for back end registry services for top-level domains. For a flat fee of $100,000 a year, the company will provide unlimited registrations for new TLDs using the Espresso platform, with no per-name fee for most new TLDs. more»