Update on gTLD application timetable

For immediate release

9 May 2012

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

("TLDH", the "Company" or "Group") 

Update on gTLD application timetable

The Internet's governing body, ICANN, had intended to publish those applications which ICANN considered complete and ready for evaluation by the end of April. As has been widely reported in the media, ICANN suspended its on-line application system on 12 April due to a technical glitch in the application platform through which applicants have to file their applications. As a result, based on information released by ICANN, some 105 applications of the 2091 received by 12 April had been affected. ICANN is currently completing the process of notifying applicants impacted by the glitch. Once completed, ICANN plans to announce the schedule for reopening the application system and completing the application period shortly thereafter. As at the date of this announcement, TLDH has received no notifications from ICANN that any of its applications, or those of its clients, have been affected by the glitch. Updates on the application window are available from ICANN's website at http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas/interruption-updates.

Further Information:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

North America

Antony Van Couvering Tel: + 1 917 406 7126

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

Roland Cornish

Michael Cornish

XCAP Securities plc (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 3216 2661/2667

Karen Kelly

Halimah Hussain

Daniel Stewart & Company plc (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6550

Martin Lampshire

gth media relations

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

Or visit the group's website at www.tldh.org

About Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

Top Level Domain Holding 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, 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 web domains, known as top-level domains (TLDs). Minds and Machines Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Top Level Domains Holdings Limited.