.Wedding contention sets settled in multi-million dollar auctions — .Green and
Two three-applicant contention sets are resolved.
The .green and .wedding fresh top level domain name contention sets have been resolved in private auctions.
It’s unclear which firm won the .green auction as applications have not yet been withdrawn. Still, Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) disclosed today it was on the losing end of that auction.
It used the proceeds from losing .green to spend millions on .wedding. Following accounting for the proceeds of .green and a refund from ICANN for withdrawing its .green application, Top Level Domain Holdings paid $2.23 million for .wedding.
It bested rival applicants Donuts and What Box for .wedding.
As for .green, either Afilias or Rightside took home the prize in what I bet was also a $2 million+ auction. DotGreen Community, the most vocal applicant for .green, bowed out previously following spending a lot of its funds ahead of contention set resolution.
