Innovative Auctions today announced the successful completion of the second Applicant Auction.
Winners in the auction will pay a total of $9,651,000 after resolving contention for eight new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
The winners for the eight contention sets included in this week’s auction were:
.guide: Donuts, Inc
.construction: Donuts, Inc
.storage: Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR)
.desi: Desi Networks LLC
.expert: Donuts, Inc
.fishing: Minds + Machines, a subsidiary of Top Level Domain Holdings, Inc (LON:TLDH)
.casa: Minds + Machines
.网址 (.wangzhi): Hu Yi Global
In addition, the following participants received payments for withdrawing one or more applications: Demand Media (NYSE:DMD), Afilias Ltd., Dot Construction LLC, and Red Circle LLC.
This brings the total generated in the two private auctions to over $18 million,.
Following the conclusion of the second auction, there are 204 remaining strings with multiple applicants.