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GoDaddy launches new ‘Airo’ tools, betting on AI to unlock growth

After seeing promising results from early customer testing, GoDaddy is launching new artificial intelligence tools for small businesses that automate… Read More

Rightside extends domain registry deal with Donuts after turning down acquisition bid

Domain companies Rightside Group and Donuts Inc. have inked a multi-year extension of Rightside’s deal to provide back-end registry services… Read More

Donuts offers $70M for Rightside’s domain business, making bold public bid for rival registry

Updated below with Rightside statement. Donuts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based owner of new domain name extensions, is offering to acquire Kirkland-based Rightside… 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

Amazon pays $4.6M for control of .buy

Amazon has beat Google to purchase the new .buy top-level domain, paying just under $4.6 million dollars in an auction… Read More

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New domains from Donuts: .DEALS, .CHURCH, .PIZZA and more

Donuts, the heavily-funded operator of generic top level domains, has a new slate of domain names from which to choose.… Read More

Want to own sandwich.com? Yahoo has an auction for you

As a part of doing business on the Internet, Yahoo picked up a bunch of domains. They were holding onto… Read More

Donuts to administer Chinese domain name for ‘games’

Bellevue startup Donuts has received approval from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to administer .游戏, an internationalized domain name… Read More

Donuts raises more cash in quest to control hundreds of domain name extensions

Donuts appears to have a pretty big appetite for fresh cash. The Bellevue startup, which emerged last year with more than $100… Read More

Domain name operator Donuts passes background checks, names new CTO

Donuts, the heavily-funded Bellevue startup, has made it through initial evaluation tests conducted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and… Read More

Amazon.com under attack for plan to own .book, .read and other domain name extensions

Amazon.com is already the 800 pound gorilla in the book selling and publishing business. And now some author groups are… Read More

From .art to .microsoft to .zappos: Applicants revealed in domain name land grab

Some of the biggest names in technology, as well as some prospecting upstarts have entered applications with the Internet Corporation for… Read More

Weird: Microsoft is now the owner of ‘clicktohump.com’

Sorry, but this was too strange to ignore: Domain name watchdog Fusible.com reports that Microsoft has obtained the sites “clicktohump.com” and… Read More

Amazon gets ‘KindleScribe’ domains, dropping more hints

Everything Amazon.com does these days is being scrutinized for ties to its expected Android tablet launch, a possible offshoot of… Read More

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