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 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
Tucows, a Toronto-based provider of internet services, has agreed to pay US$83.5 million to buy wholesale domain-name registrar eNom from Rightside Group, of Kirkland, Wash., just outside Seattle. The transaction was… Read More
Domain name registry Rightside isn’t playing around. The Kirkland, Wash.-based company launched the .games extension on Wednesday and it quickly became the company’s No. 1 performing new top level-domain. Rightside said… 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
Domain name operator Rightside introduced the .family extension on Wednesday with a push toward encouraging families and brands to embrace the warm and fuzzy feelings such an online address would… Read More
Online domain provider Rightside expected “.news” to become one of its top new domain extensions since the application window first opened to create — and own — alternatives to the usual website endings… Read More
Enom, a domain registrar and subsidiary of publicly-traded Rightside Group, recently suffered a “very sophisticated attack” by hackers. In an email to customers sent today, Enom CEO Taryn Naidu wrote that hackers… Read More
—Arriving in Seattle five years ago, Zachary Cohn plugged himself into nearly every facet of the startup community. A past GeekWire Geek of the Week, Cohn hosted regular hacker meetups, served… Read More
Rightside, the domain name operator that spun off from Demand Media last year, today reported double digit revenue growth and solid net income for its first quarter. Shares, which are… Read More
Kirkland-based domain name services company Rightside announced today that its business is growing on the back of increased interest in new top level domains. The company brought in $51.7 million in revenue… Read More
Kirkland-based Rightside Group, a domain name service company that completed a spin off from Demand Media Inc. earlier this week, posted revenue of $46.7 million in its first earnings report today. Rightside, which is trading… Read More
Meet the latest publicly-traded company from the Seattle area. Kirkland-based Rightside Group, a domain name service, today completed a spin off from Demand Media Inc. Shares started trading on the… 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
Kirkland, Wash., will be home to a new domain services company called Rightside Group after its spinoff from Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand Media Inc. Taryn Naidu, currently Demand Media’s executive… Read More