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Domain name registry Donuts acquired again, this time by Ethos Capital

The news: Donuts, a domain name registry based in Bellevue, Wash., has been acquired by Ethos Capital, a private equity… Read More

Paul Stahura

Donuts founder leads $1.2M investment in Seattle startup that makes ‘price-stable cryptocurrency’

Cryptocurrency has yet to catch on with mainstream consumers, in large part due to its volatility. Bitcoin, for example, went… Read More

Bruce Jaffe

CEO of domain name registry Donuts is stepping down

Bruce Jaffe is stepping down from his role as CEO of the domain name registry company Donuts Inc., about a… Read More

Bruce Jaffe

Domain name registry Donuts to be acquired by private equity firm Abry Partners

Donuts, a domain name registry based in Kirkland, Wash., has agreed to be acquired by Abry Partners, a private equity… Read More

GeekWire 200 Year in Review: A high-profile IPO, plenty of acquisitions and startups on the rise

Toward the end of last year, a report named seven Pacific Northwest startups — all of them near the top of… Read More

Bruce Jaffe

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

Domain name registry Donuts agrees to buy Rightside for $213M in cash

Domain name registry Donuts Inc. did not have to look far to find its latest acquisition. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company… 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

Bruce Jaffe

Domain registry Donuts names Bruce Jaffe new CEO as co-founder Paul Stahura steps aside

Donuts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based domain registry, announced a change in leadership on Thursday with the appointment of Bruce Jaffe as chief executive… Read More

Working Geek: Donuts CTO Chris Cowherd has been coding since he was 13

Chris Cowherd’s programming career began out of necessity. He was a kid and he couldn’t afford all of the video… Read More

Rightside rejects ‘opportunistic attempt’ by Donuts to acquire domain registry business for $70M

Rightside Group of Kirkland, Wash., this morning rejected a public bid by Bellevue, Wash.-based Donuts to acquire its registry of… 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

Domain registry Donuts invests in geofence management firm GeoFrenzy, launching ‘Donuts Labs’ initiative

Donuts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based domain registry that controls extensions like .cash, .email and many more, is looking to back companies innovating… Read More

Tech Moves: Donuts names new execs; Microsoft hires director for data center sustainability; T-Mobile expands digital team; and more

— Donuts Inc., the Bellevue-based Internet domain name registry, announced that a new board member and two new executives will join their… 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

News Brief

Donuts registers one millionth address using new TLDs

Donuts, the Bellevue-based domain registration company, announced today that it has hit a major milestone in its sale of new… Read More

News Brief

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 register chickens.wtf? Now’s your chance

The new top-level domain land-grab rolls on this month, with Bellevue-based domain registrar Donuts announcing that it will launch 29… Read More

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Buying a new gTLD domain name? The process .sucks

Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy… 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

Senator calls .sucks domains ‘predatory shakedown scheme,’ but Seattle-area companies want to capitalize

Want to register Congress.sucks? How about Target.sucks? Or Amazon.sucks? Not so fast. Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, who chairs… Read More

Domain name registrar Donuts hires former INRIX exec Jeff deCillia as CFO

Donuts continues to gobble up fresh talent as it moves to take a more solid position in the emerging market… 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

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

Donuts and Cheezburger among WSJ’s top 50 VC-backed startups

Investors are always chasing the “next big thing” in technology. And now The Wall Street Journal has created a list… 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

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

Former Demand Media exec Paul Stahura emerges at stealthy Donuts Inc.

Paul Stahura, who sold the domain name registrar eNom to Demand Media in 2006, has emerged at the helm of… Read More

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