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CentralNic First Company to Achieve Two Million New TLD Registrations

CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names, is pleased to announce that it is the first "registry backend" (ie. Wholesaler) to achieve sales of two million new TLD domain names, according to the domain industry statistics website www.ntldstats.com

As at 0700hrs on Tuesday 10th November, CentralNic is ranked in the top position, with 2,002,507 domains registered using CentralNic's registry platform, representing 21.21% of all domains registered globally using new TLDs. See attached screenshot No.1.

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CentralNic also has 20% market share of the top twenty new gTLD list, with four of its exclusive client TLDs among the top 20 (out of 768 launched to date) - namely: .website, .online, .space and the world's leading new TLD, .xyz, the only credible challenger to date to .com. See attached screenshot No.2.

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.xyz has almost twice the registrations of any other new gTLD, and it is sold through more retailers than any other TLD, via CentralNic's integrated network of domain name retailer partners. .xyz also supports more active websites than any other TLD and is the only new Top-Level Domain used by Google (for the official website of their new holding company, Alphabet: http://abc.xyz) and by Facebook (when Mark Zuckerberg posted his September town hall meeting on http://stream.hacktv.xyz/qandawithmark-ext).

CentralNic's CEO Ben Crawford commented "For CentralNic as a London-based AIM listed company to achieve the number one position globally in new TLDs, and to be the first to cross the two million mark, ahead of multi-billion dollar enterprises on NASDAQ, the NYSE, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is another important milestone in executing our plan to reach the scale of those other inspirational corporations. And there is much more to come."

CentralNic has already signed contracts to be the exclusive distributor of another eight new Top-Level Domains launching in 2016 as announced at the Half Year Results on 15 September 2015.

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About CentralNic

CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) is a London-based AIM-listed company which earns revenues from the worldwide sales of internet domain names over its proprietary technology platform. These domain names are sold on an annual subscription basis and paid for by customers upfront, making CentralNic a cash-generative business with annuity revenue streams. CentralNic comprises three business lines within the domain name industry. It operates a global wholesale network, supplying domain names to over 1,500 vendors in 77 countries. CentralNic is the exclusive wholesaler for all domains ending with .tickets, .site, .design .bar, .love, .feedback, .xyz, and over 30 other new Top-Level Domain extensions (the new. alternatives to .com and .net). One in five of all domains registered under new TLDs globally uses the CentralNic platform, ranking CentralNic as the number one global supplier with over two million of these domains under management. CentralNic is also a leading global domain name retailer, with its retail websites including internetbs.net, buydomains.london and domain.luxury. Additionally, via its enterprise programme, CentralNic supplies domain names (including high-value premium domain names), software and services directly to large corporations and governments.

For more information please visit: www.centralnic.com 

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