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Minds+Machines Wins Private Auction For .Wedding Loses .Green Costing a Net of Over $2.3M

February 25, 2014 by Michael Berkens

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) said on Tuesday it has won won the private auction for the new gTLD .Wedding and lost the auction for .Green

The net cost of securing .Wedding after losing .Green was $2,321,300.00

The figure quoted includes funds it will receive from its unsuccessful participation in the auction of the .GREEN domain name as well as a rebate from  ICANN for its withdrawal of its application for .Green

The other applicants for .Green were Rightside and Afilias one of which one the private auction, but neither has withdrawn their application.

The losing applicants for .wedding were Donuts and What Box?

There is also an new gTLD application for a .Wed which is owned by another company.

Shares of the company are at 16.75P up about 2% in trading in London today

TODH, which recently raised £21mln, is changing its name to Minds + Machines as well as its status – from investment firm to operating company.

Filed Under: Minds+Machines, New gTLD's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Tom Gilles says

    February 25, 2014 at 9:50 am

    .Wedding is a great niche string. Bundle it with an easy website builder and it should sell easily.


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