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gTLD application update: 92 applications submitted

1 Jun 2012 09:10

RNS Number : 6132E
Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd
01 June 2012
 



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. ("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

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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