ICANN and portfolio update

For Immediate Release

17 July 2013

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

("TLDH" or the "Company")

ICANN and portfolio update

The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM: TLDH) are pleased to announce that on 14 July 2013 ICANN signed the first contract for a new generic top level domain, dot shabaka , under its gTLD program initiative ("the Program"). شبكة. (dot shabaka), which broadly means "web address" in Arabic, is one of over 100 Internationalized Domain Names ("IDN's") in non-English scripts that have been prioritised by ICANN for early approval under the Program.

 In total approximately 1,300 new domains are likely to be approved by ICANN over the next 16 months for introduction onto the web, ICANN having indicated that it will be signing 20 contracts a week where applicants have cleared all objections and are not in contention with another applicant for the same name. The order of signing and introduction onto the web will be based on the results of ICANN's Prioritization Draw of 12 December 2012( previously announced by the Company on 19 December 2012).

Fred Krueger, Chairman of Top Level Domain Holdings, commented:

"After 7 years of development, this is a momentous point in the web's development. It marks a defining step in the largest expansion of the domain infrastructure since its inception. It likewise provides certainty and visibility on the contracting and launch timelines for all of the new domains."

Top Level Domain Holding anticipates contracts will be signed with ICANN for the first nine uncontested domain applications in which it has an interest before the end of Q1 2014, with a further eight before the end of 2014, and the remaining five uncontested applications in which the Company presently has an interest in the first half of 2015.

The Company and its clients are continuing to progress discussions with third parties to resolve remaining contention sets in which the Company and its clients have an interest. The Board expects this process to complete by the end of November 2013 with ICANN then signing contracts so that their introduction into the Internet root can still follow the timeline order of the Prioritization Draw.

Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings, said:

"We are delighted that this milestone has been reached, and look forward to ICANN completing the contracting process in a speedy and orderly manner. We are likewise confident that the final pre-delegation testing and delegation into the Internet root will proceed in an equally efficient fashion. We are confident that TLDH is exceptionally well positioned to emerge as a major gTLD registry business."

Further Information:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

North America

Antony Van Couvering Tel:+1 310 452 1491

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

Roland Cornish

Michael Cornish

N+1 Singer (Broker) Tel +44 (0)20 7496 3000

Shaun Dobson/Matt Thomas

gth media relations

Toby Hall /Suzanne Johnson Walsh Tel:+44(0)20 7822 7493/2

Or visit the group's website atwww.tldh.org

About Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

Top Level Domain Holding is a publicly traded holding company listed on the AIM market of the London 

Stock Exchange. The company is the only publicly traded company exclusively focused on the new top-level domain space. Top-level domains, such as .com and .net are regulated by ICANN. ICANN is expanding the number of new generic top-level domains from the current 22 to over 1000. 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 top-level domains (TLDs). Minds + Machines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Top Level Domains Holdings Limited.

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