The news: Donuts, a domain name registry based in Bellevue, Wash., has been acquired by Ethos Capital, a private equity firm based in Boston. Terms of the deal were not… Read More
Cryptocurrency has yet to catch on with mainstream consumers, in large part due to its volatility. Bitcoin, for example, went from $900 in December 2016 to nearly $20,000 one year… Read More
Bruce Jaffe is stepping down from his role as CEO of the domain name registry company Donuts Inc., about a month after it was acquired by Abry Partners, a private equity… Read More
Donuts, a domain name registry based in Kirkland, Wash., has agreed to be acquired by Abry Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston. Terms of the deal were not… Read More
Toward the end of last year, a report named seven Pacific Northwest startups — all of them near the top of the GeekWire 200 — that could go public in 2017. In… Read More
Donuts, a domain name registry based in Kirkland, Wash., has raised $110 million in financing to help complete its $213 million acquisition of fellow domain company Rightside Group. Donuts said the… Read More
Domain name registry Donuts Inc. did not have to look far to find its latest acquisition. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement… Read More
Domain companies Rightside Group and Donuts Inc. have inked a multi-year extension of Rightside’s deal to provide back-end registry services for Donuts’ nearly 200 generic Top Level Domains — extensions… Read More
Donuts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based domain registry, announced a change in leadership on Thursday with the appointment of Bruce Jaffe as chief executive officer. Jaffe takes the reins from Paul Stahura, the company’s… Read More
Chris Cowherd’s programming career began out of necessity. He was a kid and he couldn’t afford all of the video games he wanted, so he had to build his own.… Read More
Rightside Group of Kirkland, Wash., this morning rejected a public bid by Bellevue, Wash.-based Donuts to acquire its registry of domain names for $70 million, and said it will not consider the… Read More
Updated below with Rightside statement. Donuts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based owner of new domain name extensions, is offering to acquire Kirkland-based Rightside Group’s domain registry for $70 million in cash — going public with its… Read More
Donuts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based domain registry that controls extensions like .cash, .email and many more, is looking to back companies innovating in the domain name system with its new Donuts Labs initiative,… Read More
— Donuts Inc., the Bellevue-based Internet domain name registry, announced that a new board member and two new executives will join their team. Just last month, the company processed its 2 millionth domain name… Read More
Starting this week, Bellevue-based domain registry Donuts will release 1.3 million new domain names through partnerships with domain name registrars. The new domains are spread across 144 of the new generic top… Read More
Donuts, the Bellevue-based domain registration company, announced today that it has hit a major milestone in its sale of new domains. Heavenly.coffee, which was purchased through GoDaddy (Donuts doesn’t sell any… Read More
Donuts, the heavily-funded operator of generic top level domains, has a new slate of domain names from which to choose. The Bellevue company, led by eNom founder Paul Stahura, announced… Read More
The new top-level domain land-grab rolls on this month, with Bellevue-based domain registrar Donuts announcing that it will launch 29 new TLDs this month, including .services, .toys and (my personal… Read More
Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension.… Read More
Want to register tech.expert? It could be available for purchase on May 7. Donuts, the Bellevue-based domain name registrar, is continuing the rapid expansion of its portfolio of new top-level… Read More
Want to register Congress.sucks? How about Target.sucks? Or Amazon.sucks? Not so fast. Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, who chairs the Senate’s Commerce Committee, wrote a letter to ICANN today… Read More
Donuts continues to gobble up fresh talent as it moves to take a more solid position in the emerging market for generic top-level domains. The company announced today that Jeff deCillia… Read More
Bellevue startup Donuts has received approval from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to administer .游戏, an internationalized domain name that translates to “games” in Chinese characters. It marks the… Read More
Donuts appears to have a pretty big appetite for fresh cash. The Bellevue startup, which emerged last year with more than $100 million in a series A funding round that was the… Read More
Donuts, the heavily-funded Bellevue startup, has made it through initial evaluation tests conducted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The evaluation included a look at the company’s… Read More
Fairsearch.org, a lobbying group whose backers include Microsoft, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Nokia, has filed objections over Google’s attempts to take control of genric top-level domains such as .search, .fly, .map… Read More
Investors are always chasing the “next big thing” in technology. And now The Wall Street Journal has created a list of its picks of those venture-backed companies poised for the… Read More
Some of the biggest names in technology, as well as some prospecting upstarts have entered applications with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for hundreds of new Internet domain… Read More
You don’t see many $100 million series A financing rounds in Seattle — or anywhere for that matter. But that’s how much cash that Donuts Inc. — a domain name… Read More
Paul Stahura, who sold the domain name registrar eNom to Demand Media in 2006, has emerged at the helm of a stealthy Seattle area company called Donuts Inc. Very little… Read More