The Board of TLDH has decided to align TLDH’s accounting reference date with its tax reporting obligations, the year end of its investee company Minds + Machines and to a more market standard quarter-end. The historic accounting reference date of 31 October has been changed therefore to the next quarter date, being 31 December. On this basis, the reporting timetable will be as follows:
(i) Unaudited interim results for the second six month period ended 31 October 2012, to be published within 3 months on or before 31 January 2013; and
(ii) Audited Report and Accounts for the 14 month period ended 31 December 2012, to be published within 4 months of the new accounting reference date, on or before 30 April 2013 (being the existing deadline obligation for a 31 October accounting reference date).
Further to the announcement made on 31 October 2012, the Company also announces the formal appointment of Mr Caspar von Veltheim to the Board of TLDH as an executive director with responsibility for Europe. Mr von Veltheim is currently a managing director of Minds + Machines GmbH and of Bayern Connect GmbH, TLDH’s investee companies, and he has been responsible for TLDH’s continental European applications in respect of .nrw and .bayern.
Mr von Veltheim studied film production at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Prior to this he received a BA in Business Studies and Film & Television at Roehampton University in London. He has worked for production companies in Germany, the UK and the United States. After working at NBC Universal Global Networks in Germany, he was a director of the Internet marketing and consultancy business, Netbrands Media.
Directorships and/or partnerships held by Hans-Caspar Nikolaus Alexander von Veltheim, aged 32, in the last 5 years are as follows:
Current
Bayern Connect GmbH
Minds + Machines GmbH
Past
Netbrands Media
Mr von Veltheim is currently interested in 349,500 TLDH shares representing 0.067% of the Company’s issued share capital and 662,500 options to subscribe for new ordinary shares. In addition, Mr von Veltheim is interested in 15 per cent. of the issued share capital of each of Bayern Connect GmbH and Minds + Machines GmbH.
There is no further information on Mr von Veltheim 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
Singer Capital Markets (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
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.