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Tucows and TLDH buddy up on three gTLD auctions

Kevin Murphy, August 2, 2013, 10:36:26 (UTC), Domain Registries

Top Level Domain Holdings and Tucows have made a complex deal on new gTLD applications for .store, .tech and .group.
The partnership will see TLDH take a majority stake in .group, which it hasn’t also applied for, while Tucows will take minority interests in .tech and .store, which it in turn has not also applied for.
All three strings are heading to auction, with four applicants for .group, five for .tech, and six for .store.
How much each company owns of each registry will depend on how much they contribute to a winning auction bid.
TLDH CEO Antony Van Couvering said in a press release:

By combining our financial resources on these three domains not only are our chances of success improved in the auction round, but TLDH has the opportunity to acquire an interest in an additional top-level domain, .GROUP.

Tucows already plans to use TLDH subsidiary Minds + Machines as the registry back-end for the five new gTLDs it has applied for.


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Comments (1)

  1. Dax says:

    OMG; please do NOT combine financial resources for this shitty TLDs. It is a waste of money.

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