Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of the last announcement at 8.7%. Mr. Krueger owned some 15.9% of the shares of the company before his announcement and so he has sold, a little less than … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Offering Free Domains In .Work & .Casa
According to an email we received today from Minds + Machines they are offering free domains in the new gTLD's .Work & .Casa only on the Minds + Machines Registrar "The offer is only valid for one more week, exclusively on Minds + Machines and the offer expires on June 15th, 2015" The offer is valid for 10 .Work and 10 .Casa non-premium (standard names) domains "per customer" Under the … [Read more...]
Co-Founder Fred Krueger Sells Over 10% Of His Shares of Minds + Machines
Minds + Machines announced today that Fred Krueger informed the company that he sold 14,000,000 shares on May 28, 2015. Based on his last disclosed interest, Fred Krueger now owns 114,481,604 ordinary shares representing approximately 13.7% of the issued shares capital of the Company. On May 26th Mr. Krueger announced he was leaving the company as executive … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Reports Earnings For 2014: Profit $22 Million: $46 Million in the Bank
Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) reported its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2014. Minds + Machines reported a profit before in 2014 of $22.06 million against a profit of $1.14 million in 2013, largely as a result of receiving $33.72 Million for withdrawing applications for new gTLD's that were in private auctions. The company made $6.44 million in 2013 for withdrawing … [Read more...]
The Co-Founder Of Minds + Machines Fred Krueger Is Leaving The Company
Fred Krueger, executive chairman and co-founder of Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is stepping down according to a press release by the company today. Fred Krueger will be succeeded as chairman by Keith Teare, with the role now being a non-executive one. ""The changing of the guard marks the evolution of Minds + Machines from a company set up to take advantage of the liberalisation of generic top … [Read more...]
.GOP Video Promotes Use, But No Major Presidential Candidate Seems To Own One
In a new video posted by the .GOP registry, they boast about it being the only new gTLD owned by a political party and of course that is true, as the other political domain names, .Democrat, .Republican. .Vote and .Voting are owned by for profit non-affiliated registries. The .GOP gTLD is owned by Republican State Leadership Committee, Inc. an affiliate to the republican party. The video's … [Read more...]
.Fit Finishes 1st Day Of General Availability With 1,269 Domains
.Fit which launched into General Availability yesterday by Minds + Machines wound up with 1,269 domain names including selling some of those premium domain names we talked about yesterday. .Fit had less than 75 domains registered during the sunrise period by trademark holders so basically picked up 1,200 registrations yesterday. It appears trademark holders went in and picked up at least 8o … [Read more...]