Articles about Domain Names

Domain name registry Donuts raises $110M in financing to help fund $213M acquisition of former rival Rightside

Donuts, a domain name registry based in Kirkland, Wash., has raised $110 million in financing to help complete its $213 million… Read More

Donuts to begin offering more than 1 million new domain names, including .email, .photos, .cash

Starting this week, Bellevue-based domain registry Donuts will release 1.3 million new domain names through partnerships with domain name registrars. The new… Read More

Domain registration service Rightside spins off from Demand Media, trading on Nasdaq under ticker ‘NAME’

Meet the latest publicly-traded company from the Seattle area. Kirkland-based Rightside Group, a domain name service, today completed a spin… Read More

Donuts continues Internet land grab, launching .fail, .toys, .WTF and other domains

Want to register tech.expert? It could be available for purchase on May 7. Donuts, the Bellevue-based domain name registrar, is… Read More

Way beyond dot-com: New era begins with orders for .menu, .luxury and other ‘gTLDs’

Can’t get your favorite dot-com address? GoDaddy announced today that it will start taking pre-registrations for a quartet of new… Read More

Microsoft, Expedia, others file complaint over Google’s domain name ‘land grab’

Fairsearch.org, a lobbying group whose backers include Microsoft, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Nokia, has filed objections over Google’s attempts to take… Read More

This Seattle area startup just raised more than $100M in a huge series A financing

You don’t see many $100 million series A financing rounds in Seattle — or anywhere for that matter. But that’s… Read More

Domain purchase fuels speculation of Microsoft-Sony partnership

Earlier today, we told you about Microsoft’s leak of the Web site Socl.com, which caused all sorts of chatter about… Read More

Marchex sells Foodie.com to Glam Media’s Samir Arora

Prior to getting into the call advertising business, Marchex was a big acquirer of domain names. But that’s no longer… Read More

Why Microsoft is paying $7.5M for 600,000 IP addresses

Microsoft is dropping more than a few jaws with the news that it’s spending $7.5 million to acquire 666,624 IP… Read More