1 Jun 2012 09:10
For immediate release
1 June 2012
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
("TLDH" or the "Company")
gTLD application update: 92 applications submitted
The window to submit new gTLD applications to ICANN closed on 30 May 2012. The Directors of TLDH are delighted to confirm that the Company 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.
Peter Dengate Thrush, the Company's Chairman, said:
"We are very pleased with the momentum of the new gTLD program. We have applied for a substantial and diverse portfolio of new gTLDs and are excited about the prospects for the Group."
As previously announced, TLDH has submitted 5 gTLD geographic applications for or in association with the cities of London, Miami, and Budapest, together with the German States of Bayern and Nord-Rhein Westfalen, all with the backing of each city or region's governing body. The Company is also providing back-end registry services for a further 18 applications made by clients of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Minds + Machines, including .rugby by the International Rugby Board and .basketball with FIBA, the International Basketball Federation.
TLDH has submitted a further 68 gTLD applications on its own behalf, and one application as a joint venture in .music. In aggregate, the Company's application fees amounted to US$13,597,500.
The gTLDs that the Company has applied for on its own behalf are:
1. abogado 2. .app 3. .art 4. .baby 5. .beauty 6. .beer 7. .blog 8. .book 9. .casa 10. .cloud 11. .cooking 12. .country 13. .coupon 14. .cpa 15. .cricket 16. .data 17. .dds 18. .deals 19. .design 20. .dog 21. .eco 22. .fashion 23. .fishing | 24. .fit 25. .flowers 26. .free 27. .garden 28. .gay 29. .green 30. .guide 31. .horse 32. .hotel 33. .home 34. .immo 35. .inc 36. .latino 37. .law 38. .lawyer 39. .llc 40. .love 41. .luxe 42. .pizza 43. .property 44. .realestate 45. .restaurant 46. .review | 47. .roma 48. .rodeo 49. .sale 50. .school 51. .science 52. .site 53. .soccer 54. .spa 55. .store 56. .style 57. .surf 58. .tech 59. .video 60. .vip 61. .vodka 62. .website 63. .wedding 64. .work 65. .yoga 66. .zulu 67. 购物 ("shopping") 68. 网址 ("site") |
As the application window has now closed, no more applications are being accepted by ICANN. One hour before the closing of the application window, ICANN announced that it had received "just over 1900 applications". ICANN has further announced that it will publish the non-confidential portions of applications on 13 June 2012 (the "Reveal Date"). On the Reveal Date, the names of all the gTLDs that have been applied for, and by whom, will be made public by ICANN.
ICANN has determined that as it cannot evaluate all the new gTLD applications simultaneously, it will process the gTLD applications in batches. ICANN intends to announce which gTLD applications fall into which batch on 11 July 2012. ICANN expects to have evaluated the first batch of applications in about six months and those passing will proceed, if uncontested, into delegation.
During the next six months, TLDH will focus its efforts on marketing and operations for geographic names such as dot London and dot Bayern where it has the exclusive support of the relevant governing authority, as well as any other gTLDs that TLDH has filed for that are confirmed to be uncontested on the Reveal Date. Discussions with other applicants regarding contested names will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
No applications were submitted on behalf of the Group's client, India TL Domain Pvt Ltd, in respect of Indian cities including Mumbai and Bangaluru.
Further Information:
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering Tel: + 1 917 406 7126
Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad) Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
XCAP Securities plc (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 3216 2661/2667
Karen Kelly
Halimah Hussain
Daniel Stewart & Company plc (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6550
Martin Lampshire
gth media relations
Toby Hall /Suzanne Johnson Walsh Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2
Or visit the group's website at www.tldh.org
About Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
Top Level Domain Holding is a publicly traded holding company listed on the London AIM market. The company is focused on the new top-level domain space. Top-level domains, such as .com, run by VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), and .biz, run by Neustar (NYSE: NSR), are regulated by ICANN. ICANN has announced plans to expand the number of top-level domains. TLDH is making targeted investments in this space, focusing on both infrastructure technologies and specific top-level domains.
About Minds + Machines, http://mindsandmachines.com
Minds + Machines is a registry services provider that works internationally with commercial organisations, cities, not-for-profits and entrepreneurs to secure and operate new web domains, known as top-level domains (TLDs). Minds and Machines LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Top Level Domains Holdings Limited.
Glossary
"gTLD" | Generic top level domain |
"ICANN" | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |