One of the world's pioneering registry service providers, CentralNic provides registry services, distribution, and strategic consultancy for new TLDs, ccTLDs and SLDs.

CentralNic uses our in-house developed IT platform to distribute our own portfolio of 24 domain names including .uk.com, .us.com and .cn.com (China) to a global network of "1500 registrars" (retailers such as Network Solutions, LLC), which sell these to end users. We also use this platform to sell domain names owned by third parties including .la for Los Angeles, .pw and .com.de (Germany). Further, CentralNic provides consultancy services to companies seeking to create their own domains.

Our powerful registry engine has an eighteen year track record of uninterrupted and unblemished service, and it is supported by innovative marketing and personal customer service. Additionally, our flexible and scalable platform is above ICANN specification for new TLDs.

CentralNic operates from our global headquarters in London plus offices in New York, Dubai and Los Angeles. We also have on-the-ground account executives in Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and Melbourne.

CentralNic is currently supporting 60 gTLD applications including .wiki, .bar, .xyz, .rest (for restaurants) and .ink. This major expansion in the number of generic Top-Level Domains is expected to commence from the end of 2013. Our specialised service for global brands, DotBrand Solutions, is behind the applications for household name and multi-billion dollar company applicants spanning three continents.



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Sale of Premium Domain Names and Trading Update

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CentralNic Group PLC

08 December 2014







Press Release

8 December 2014




CentralNic Group plc



("CentralNic" or "the Company" or "the Group")



Sale of Premium Domain Names

and Trading Update



CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names, announces today that it has sold a number of premium domain names for US$2.5 million, satisfied in cash. The Board is also pleased to provide an update on trading for the year ending 31 December 2014 where it confirms profits for the year ending 31 December 2014 will be in line with market expectations.



Sale of Premium Domain Names

As previously announced on 23 September 2014, CentralNic launched a Premium Domains trading business in the second half of 2014. Premium domain names are domain names that trade at a premium to normal retail pricing.

CentralNic has today concluded sales of non-core premium domain names for US$2.5 million, satisfied in cash on completion, the proceeds of which will be utilised to further accelerate growth within the Group, and acquire additional premium domains to augment the existing portfolio.



Trading Update



The Board is pleased with the Group's overall trading performance to date and is confident that profits for the year ending 31 December 2014 will be in line with market expectations. The Group has transformed its business to include registry, registrar and enterprise divisions that reflect a diversified international business specialising in domain name sales and related services, including a Premium Domain Trading business that through this transaction is already contributing to CentralNic's performance.

CentralNic's strategy

When CentralNic listed on AIM, the Group's strategy was to diversify its business activities in the domain name industry. It has succeeded in executing that strategy with the Group having exposure to the growth and re-organisation of the internet through the following activities:

- retailing domain names via online stores such as internetbs.net, buydomains.london and domains.luxury whilst also offering consumers complementary services such as web hosting and website builders;

- trading and providing broking services in Premium Domain Names, owning a trading portfolio of almost 20,000 Premium Domains;

- offering domain-name-related services, consultancy and software solutions for major brands including best-of-breed domain name portfolio management and distribution;

- providing consultancy and outsource domain registry services for developing markets;

- investing in innovative new TLDs with differentiated business models; and

- extending its role as an industry leader in the distribution of domain names (including new TLDs).



Top-Level Domains ("TLDs")

As generally recognised the release of new Top-Level Domains ("TLDs" or new suffixes for domain names to supplement .com and .co.uk - such as .website, .wiki and .xyz) has been slower than anticipated. These delays have been due to a number of factors, impacting the entire new TLD programme. The result is that while demand for the new TLDs is strong and growing, it is still at a less mature stage than the Board had anticipated. These delays have caused ICANN, the regulator and administrator of the new TLD programme, to downgrade their demand projections from 33 million to 15 million domain registrations under new TLDs by June 2015.



CentralNic's performance to date on new TLDs

The Board remains highly confident that CentralNic has confirmed its position as a global leader among the new TLD distributors. It is ranked number two in the world by industry statistics website ntldstats.com, positioning the Group as the leading registry services provider in Europe (source: http://ntldstats.com/backend). This success reflects strong demand for CentralNic's .xyz, a mass-market new TLD which to date has more registrations - with over 730,000 domains - and more active websites than any other new TLD (source: http://ntldstats.com/).

CentralNic has successfully launched a total of 11 new domain extensions in 2014, including: .wiki, .ink, .xyz, .bar, .rest, .website, .press, .host and .space, as well as the new generic .co.com and .com.se as a new domain for Sweden.







CentralNic's next wave of new TLDs

The Board expects CentralNic to be the exclusive registry service provider to at least 35 new TLD's over the next 2-3 years. The Group has also been confirmed as the exclusive global distributor and billing agent for the following new TLDs to be launched from 2015:

.site - ranked by industry experts as among the top five most desirable new TLDs

.design - a domain suited to graphic, web and interior designers

.tickets -a full ticketing transactional platform integrated with a .tickets domain name - for validated venues, sports teams, entertainment artists and travel industry operators, providing consumers with safe, authentic ticket purchases. CentralNic has a number of exposures to future revenues generated by Accent Media Limited, the successful applicant for .tickets, and through its investment is also a 12% shareholder.

Other CentralNic new TLDs still to be launched include .college, .fans, .feedback, .contact, and .pid.

CentralNic and its clients are in contention with other applicants to secure an additional 20 new TLDs which include .love, .online, .gay, .app, .blog, .cafe, .web, .style, .forum, .art, .golf, .llc, .school, .store, .shop, .music, .doctor, .bank, .ping, and .baby. The Group is also in discussion with applicants for new TLDs who would like to transfer from their existing provider to CentralNic's platform.

CentralNic CEO Ben Crawford said: "CentralNic and its clients have a number of high quality new TLDs and with our partners we intend to build on our results to date in leading the re-organisation of the domain name system. This year we have been successful in diversifying our business by entering the retail, enterprise and premium domain markets, where we have a commercial interest in a significant portfolio of premium domain names of varying values. We look forward to continued development of our registry business and these new lines of business as we enter 2015."





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Share Price Movement
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CentralNic Group PLC
13 August 2015









Press Release
13 August 2015




CentralNic Group plc



("CentralNic")





Share Price Movement



The Board of CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names, believes that the recent movement in the Company's share price is related to media comment surrounding the recent announcement by Google to adopt the suffix .xyz for use by its new identity "Alphabet", the principal website of which will be abc.xyz. CentralNic is the exclusive global wholesaler for .xyz, receiving a share of revenues for all .xyz domains registered.



The Board wishes to make it clear that although the recent announcement by Google was very positive, the growing interest in .xyz was expected as awareness and usage of .xyz and CentralNic's other new Top-Level Domains continues to expand.



The Company continues to trade in line with market expectations for the current year to 31st December 2015.

CentralNic ranked top TLD wholesaler
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CentralNic says it is currently ranked number one 'registry backend' (i.e. wholesaler) of new TLD domain names globally, on the domain industry statistics website ntldstats.com.

CentralNic attained the top position on Friday after being ranked number two for the previous 12 months.



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Half year results


· Revenues for the Retail business Internet.BS (acquired in June 2014) grew to £1.7m, up 26% over the previous 6 months.



· The Enterprise business, which had negligible revenue at 30 June last year, generated £1.1m of revenue from premium domain name trading, consulting, registry software licensing and managed services.



· Cash and cash equivalents of £4.4m (2014: £3.0m) reflected a £2.2m fund raise in June 2015, offset by scheduled deferred consideration of (£1.2m) in relation to the acquisition of the trade and assets of Internet.BS. Cashflow from Operations of £0.5m was below Adjusted EBITDA, reflecting Enterprise sales made in June 2015, which are due for settlement in the second half of the year.



Operational highlights



· Wholesale business ranked as the world's Number Two service provider by volume for new Top-Level Domains, with three client TLDs in the top 20, including .XYZ which is emerging as a credible challenger to .com.



· Wholesale business launched two new top level domains during the half year - .space and .design, and successfully completed the migration of the .coop TLD onto the CentralNic platform.



· Number of revenue-generating Enterprise business clients increased from two to ten, including the Philippines telco Smart.



· The Retail business added 33 new top level domains to the Internet.BS inventory while new flagship retail stores were launched for .cymru & .wales (www.cymru.domains) and .bank (www.centralnicfintech.com)

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Interim Results to 30 June 2017
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CentralNic Group PLC
07 September 2017
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                        
7 September 2017                                                                                                                                                                   
 
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.  Upon the publication of this announcement via the Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain. 
CENTRALNIC GROUP PLC 
("CentralNic" or "the Company" or "the Group")
 
HALF YEAR RESULTS 2017 
Organic growth and achieving strategic objectives 
 
CentralNic, the global software platform company supporting subscription web services including domain names, is pleased to announce its half year results for the six months ended 30 June 2017, which show strong underlying organic growth across the business. 
Highlights:
 
·      Adjusted EBITDA*, excluding forex gains and losses, of £1.4m (H1 2016: £0.9m) - up 50% 
·      Gross profit £3.0m (H1 2016: £2.3m) - up 29.5%
·      Revenue of £10.6m (H1 2016: £8.9m) - up 19%. 
·      Net cash of £7.73m (2016: £6.04m).
 
* Adjusted EBITDA:  Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, acquisition costs, exceptional items and non-cash charges. 
 
Operational highlights:
 
·     Recurring revenues continue to increase, reflecting the strong focus on growing the proportion of the Group's revenues being of a recurring nature, as exemplified post period-end by the acquisition of SK-NIC in August 2017 and the renegotiated .xyz contract. 
·     Retail division focus on optimising marketing performance having completed integration and consolidation of Instra Group. 
·      Wholesale business maintained its lead in global market share by volume, being the only company which supports six of the Top 20 new Top-Level Domains. 
·      New client wins as a registry service provider included .rugby .observer, .storage, as well as multiple contracts with country code Top-Level Domains. 
 
Post half year end highlights:
 
·      Acquisition of SK-NIC:
-      As announced on the 25th August 2017, the Group has agreed to acquire the business and assets of SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive country code top-level domain for Slovakia, .sk. 
-      The Board believes that this represents a major, earnings enhancing acquisition, further increasing the proportion of the Group's revenues that are recurring and diversifying the Group's businesses. 
-      A term loan of £18m and overdraft facility of £3m are being provided by the Group's bankers, Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB"), to fund the initial consideration.  
Contract with .XYZ renegotiated: term extended to 2032, with CentralNic receiving a fixed fee based on the volume of .xyz registrations and subscriptions managed. 
 
Commenting on the results, Mike Turner, Chairman of CentralNic, said:
 
"Our underlying first half results have been most encouraging as CentralNic continues to deliver organic growth alongside significant earnings enhancing acquisitions.  
"Both our organic growth and roll-up strategy are underpinned by a drive to increase the size and scale of the business by focussing on activities which will deliver recurring revenues and high visibility of earnings.  This concentrates our efforts on the higher margin and higher growth segments of the market. 
"In keeping with the consistently heavy second-half weighting of results in recent years, the Board is confident that the Company is on track to meet market expectations for the full year to 31 December 2017, as we continue to diversify through the acquisition of businesses with high-levels of recurring revenue, organically grow our existing recurring revenue businesses, and take advantage of opportunities to trade in valuable premium domain names." 
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