Top Level Domain Holdings

Holding(s) in Company

Reg Levy — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:13:33 +0000

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Matt Thomas
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

About Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
Top Level Domain Holdings 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 intends to make targeted investments in this space, focusing on both infrastructure technologies and specific top-level domains.

About Minds + Machines
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 Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Top Level Domains Holdings Limited.

Audited results for 14 month period ended 31.12.12

Reg Levy — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:18:49 +0000

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM: TLDH.L), the only publicly traded company focused exclusively on acquiring and operating new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”),today announces its audited results for the fourteenmonth period ended 31 December 2012 (the “Period”).

Period Highlights

92 gTLD applications lodged on behalf of the Company and its clients;

£420,000 of revenue generated in the period (2011: £54,000);

cash and cash equivalents at 31 December 2012 of £2,418,000 (2011: £7,074,000); and

Company expects to see the first of its domains become operational in 2013 generating significant cash inflow opportunities for the Company in 2013.

Post Period Highlights

4 gTLD applications submitted for withdrawal from the gTLD program – once the withdrawals are processed the total applications lodged will be 88;

following completion of ICANN’s string similarity review, TLDH and its clients have a total of 21 uncontested applications of its remaining 88;

2 gTLD applications – 购物 (“shopping”) and .网址 (“site”) – have passed Initial Evaluation;

up to $15,000,000 (£9.9M) additional funding raised to support the bid for one of its contested applications;

joint venture formed with the only other applicant for the .country gTLD ensuring that the Company will receive revenue from this contested string when launched; and

core registry operations are being set up in Dublin, with additional operations being managed out of London to support .London.

Executive Chairman, Fred Krueger, commented:

The directors believe that TLDH is now very well positioned to participate in the expansion of the Internet and we look forward to playing our part in creating a vibrant new wave of innovation, consumer choice and wealth creation on the Internet as a result of the gTLD program. The introduction of new gTLDs will create significant opportunities in both direct investment and service revenues for the Company.

A full copy of the Company’s audited results, which are being posted to shareholders shortly, is available here here.

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Matt Thomas
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

Joint Venture with Uniregistry for .country

Reg Levy — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:30:29 +0000

The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) are pleased to announce that it has signed a term sheet with Uniregistry to operate the .country top-level domain for which both companies had applied. Under the contemplated arrangement, both parties would enjoy a 50% equity stake in a new company, to which the .country contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) would be transferred.

Antony Van Couvering, CEO of TLDH, commented:

We’re very pleased with this arrangement. Working with Uniregistry for .country is pro-competitive and will result in lower prices for consumers and better exposure for .country. Our two organizations have similar visions for .country and we look forward to working with Uniregistry.

Frank Schilling, Founder and Managing Director of Uniregistry, said:

This joint venture is good for us, good for TLDH, good for ICANN, and just terrific for registrants in .country. We look forward to working with TLDH to make .country a vibrant success.

Both Uniregistry and TLDH applied to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) to operate the .country generic top-level domain (“gTLD”); there are no other contenders. Under ICANN rules only one party can operate any given gTLD, and ICANN has encouraged applicants to resolve these conflicts privately. Under the conditional heads of terms for the proposed joint venture, either Uniregistry or TLDH will withdraw its application and, once the surviving applications is approved by ICANN, the authority to operate .country will be transferred to the new joint venture. The transfer will require ICANN approval, which the directors of the Company fully expect to be forthcoming.

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Matt Thomas
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

ICANN and gTLD portfolio update: Board confident of program’s progress

Reg Levy — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:22:20 +0000

ICANN Update
The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) are pleased to announce that the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), held in Beijing from April 11-14, is expected to be the last before contracts for new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) are formally signed. No new roadblocks were brought up at the Beijing meeting, and the Board of TLDH is confident that the program will now move forward with progressively clearer timeframes for each gTLD’s release.

Neither ICANN’s Government Advisory Council (“GAC”) which delivered its official advice on individual strings in the program, nor the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (“SSAC”), which reported on any possible risks to the overall security and stability of the Internet, called for any delays. The ICANN roadmap strongly indicates that the Company should be launching its own first top-level domains early in Q4 2013.

ICANN has likewise announced that 132 applications have passed initial evaluation, including two applications from TLDH: .网址 (“web address” in Chinese) and .购物(“shopping” in Chinese). ICANN is currently processing initial evaluations at the rate of about 50 per week, and has announced that it will ramp-up the rate of evaluations to 100 per week, based on which ICANN should be finished with initial evaluations by August 2013. ICANN also announced that it expects to start signing contracts by the end of May at the rate of approximately 20 per week.

Fred Krueger, executive chairman of TLDH, commented:

We are delighted by the progress being made by ICANN, the status of our portfolio and the progress we are making in relation to those applications which are in contention with other applications.

The Board expects that some contentions will be resolved soon, although the majority are likely to be resolved closer to the commencement of ICANN-sponsored auctions, which will occur if applicants cannot resolve contentions on their own. ICANN has indicated its auctions will likely begin in November 2013.

gTLD portfolio update
The Board is also pleased to report that TLDH’s portfolio received relatively few third-party objections, all from rivals for the TLDs in question. TLDH was notified that objections had been filed against only seven of its new gTLD applications, representing 9.7% of the Company’s portfolio: two objections for .music and one each for .购物(“shopping” in Chinese), .gay, .eco, .home, .vip, and .realestate

GAC Advice
The GAC strongly advised against four gTLDs, none of which TLDH applied for. Another 513 gTLDs were given some kind of advice by the GAC, ranging from serious reservations to desired improvements. The Company has decided as a consequence of these warnings, and after discussion with relevant governments, to withdraw four of its applications: .free, .sale, .spa and .zulu. The Company expects to receive refunds totaling $520,000 (£341,304) from ICANN, and to have released to it $144,000 (£94,515) currently set aside in letters of credit for ICANN’s Continued Operations Instrument requirement.

A full list of TLDH’s applications and their current status is set out below at the end of this release.

Timeline
The Board anticipates that over a hundred new gTLDs will have signed contracts with ICANN by the time of the next ICANN meeting in Durban, South Africa, commencing 15 July 2013. Following the execution of its contract with ICANN, each gTLD will schedule its pre-delegation testing as a final technical check, then proceed to delegation, integration with the Trademark Clearing House, and then launch. The Company estimates that the time from contract to launch will be approximately 3 months. TLDH’s operating company, Minds + Machines, is now focused on the upcoming launches of .london, .budapest, .nrw, .gop and .kiwi. The Company is also actively pursuing arrangements with other applicants for new gTLDs.

TLDH gTLD Application Status
The following table summarises the status of the Company’s applications for new gTLDs.

Applied-for Top Level Domain	Priority Draw Number	Group equity interest	Number of competing applications	Government objections/early warnings	Third party objections
网址 (“site”)	15	100%	1
购物 (“shopping”)	62	100%	0		Yes
dog	110	100%	2
fishing	139	100%	1
casa	171	100%	1
GOP	192	client	0
home	215	100%	more than 2		Yes
love	262	100%	more than 2
rugby	278	client	2
budapest	288	100%	0
book	291	100%	more than 2
kiwi	331	client	0
llc	335	100%	more than 2
blog	358	100%	more than 2
cpa	403	100%	more than 2
media	407	client	2
deals	439	100%	2
law	453	100%	more than 2
ecom	456	client	0
wedding	459	100%	2
lawyer	467	100%	1
flowers	481	100%	more than 2
tickets	485	client	more than 2
review	492	100%	1
bradesco	504	client	0
fashion	516	100%	more than 2
cloud	536	100%	more than 2
vodka	577	100%	0
pizza	595	100%	more than 2
rodeo	621	100%	0
nrw	630	80%	0
london	635	client	0
green	640	100%	more than 2
coupon	654	100%	1
country	664	100%	1
broadway	667	client	2
style	669	100%	more than 2
vip	683	100%	more than 2		Yes
store	690	100%	more than 2
music	749	50%	more than 2		Yes
life	758	client	2
dds	760	100%	1
roma	786	100%	0
marketing	793	client	2
tube	806	client	2
baby	872	100%	more than 2
zulu	899	100%	0	Yes
sale	903	100%	more than 2	Yes
app	918	100%	more than 2
data	921	100%	2
science	924	100%	1
immo	960	100%	more than 2
realestate	1044	100%	more than 2		Yes
free	1048	100%	more than 2	Yes
guide	1081	100%	1
work	1085	100%	0
radio	1087	client	more than 2
website	1103	100%	2
bible	1114	client	0
design	1128	100%	more than 2
latino	1134	100%	1
inc	1136	100%	more than 2
group	1159	client	more than 2
property	1160	100%	2
beauty	1164	100%	2
miami	1185	100%	0
hotel	1215	100%	more than 2
cooking	1241	100%	0
cricket	1316	100%	2
horse	1317	100%	0
fit	1336	100%	1
basketball	1364	client	2
site	1367	100%	more than 2
spa	1374	100%	2	Yes
abogado	1376	100%	0
restaurant	1423	100%	more than 2
gay	1428	100%	more than 2		Yes
video	1466	100%	more than 2
eco	1475	100%	more than 2		Yes
art	1523	100%	more than 2
luxe	1536	100%	0
bayern	1552	80%	0
online	1602	client	more than 2
tech	1623	100%	more than 2
yoga	1626	100%	2
casino	1630	client	more than 2
poker	1638	client	more than 2
garden	1658	100%	2
beer	1675	100%	0
soccer	1708	100%	more than 2
surf	1711	100%	0
school	1720	100%	more than 2

To view the full list of objections received by ICANN, please click here.

To view the full list of GAC related objections, please click here.

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Matt Thomas
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

Correction: Holding(s) in Company

Reg Levy — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:25:11 +0000

Please see the attachment.

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Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Matt Thomas
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

Holding(s) in Company

Reg Levy — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:20:44 +0000

Please see the attachment.

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Matt Thomas
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

Board Appointment

Reg Levy — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:31:52 +0000

Further to the announcement made on 25 February 2013, the Company is pleased to announce the formal appointment of Keith Teare to the Board of TLDH as a non-executive director.

Keith Teare is the CEO and founder of just.me Inc and a founder at the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. Keith has been the founder of a number of successful internet ventures: in 1994 he was CTO and co-founder of The EasyNet Group, one of the first ISP’s in Europe, which was admitted to AIM in 1996 and was subsequently acquired by BSkyB; he was also founder and CEO in 1998 of Palo Alto-based RealNames Corporation, which was responsible for supporting the nascent multi-lingual DNS system run by Verisign, and more recently was co-founder of TechCrunch, which was acquired by AOL in Sept 2010.

Directorships and/or partnerships held by Keith William Teare, aged 58, in the last 5 years are as follows:

Current:		Past:
Just.me Inc.		TechCrunch Inc.
Archimedes Lab LLC		Fotopedia
Uncloaked Inc.		Second Atte Limited
		Mobjot Productions LLC
		Cybercafe Limited

Keith Teare has been a director of Cybercafe Limited which was put into Company Voluntary Arrangement on 14/01/1997. CVA was completed on 19 July 2002.

Keith Teare has been a director of Realnames UK Limited which was put into Members Voluntary Liquidation on 30 May 2002.

Keith Teare currently holds no shares in the Company.

There is no further information on Keith Teare required to be disclosed under Schedule Two, paragraph (g) (i)-(viii) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Matt Thomas
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

gTLD Update

Reg Levy — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:43:09 +0000

ICANN String Similarity results released;

No TLDH or client strings affected;

Company and clients now have 22 uncontested strings.

The Board of TLDH (AIM: TLDH.L) is delighted to announce that ICANN’s String Similarity Panel has determined that none of the strings for which it is the sole applicant will be placed in contention sets with other strings. In particular, the panel has ruled that TLDH’s application for .work does not conflict with another application for “.works”, and hence has a clear path to approval and delegation.

As a result the Company and its clients now have 22 uncontested strings, the Company having removed .work from its original list of uncontested strings in its Interim statement.

Fred Krueger, Chairman, said:

We are very pleased with the results of the String Similarity Panel – in particular in relation to .work. We believe that the .work TLD will appeal to companies who are hiring staff and to individuals seeking employment. The string is short, memorable and ideal for career pages, resumés, service providers and many other uses.

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Matt Thomas
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

Director’s Dealing

Reg Levy — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:14:34 +0000

The Company announces that it was informed on 28 February 2013 that Guy Elliott, a director of the Company, purchased 100,000 ordinary shares at a price of 8.5p per ordinary share on 27 February and on 28 February 2013 purchased a further 750,700 ordinary shares at 8.5p and 250,000 ordinary shares at 9p. Guy Elliott now holds 31,787,050 ordinary shares (including 186,350 ordinary shares held by his wife) representing 5.91 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

N+1 Singer (Broker)
Dominic Del Mar
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

Holding(s) in Company

Reg Levy — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:14:03 +0000

Please see attachment.

Holding(s) in Company 28 February 2013

For further information, please contact:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited
North America
Antony Van Couvering
Tel: +1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
Roland Cornish
Michael Cornish
Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

Singer Capital Markets (Broker)
Dominic Del Mar
Tel +44 (0) 20 3205 7500

gth media relations
Toby Hall/Suzanne Johnson Walsh
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