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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 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

Rightside Group sells eNom domain registrar for $83.5M to Canadian internet firm Tucows

Tucows, a Toronto-based provider of internet services, has agreed to pay US$83.5 million to buy wholesale domain-name registrar eNom from… Read More

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Rightside rolls out .games domain extension to target huge audience of gamers and developers

Domain name registry Rightside isn’t playing around. The Kirkland, Wash.-based company launched the .games extension on Wednesday and it quickly… 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

Rightside’s new .family domain extension aims to take families and brands beyond .com

Domain name operator Rightside introduced the .family extension on Wednesday with a push toward encouraging families and brands to embrace… Read More

From Microsoft to BMW, big brands are buying up .news web domains in a hurry

Online domain provider Rightside expected “.news” to become one of its top new domain extensions since the application window first opened to create… Read More

Domain registrar Enom suffers DNS attack targeting ‘large Internet infrastructure companies’

Enom, a domain registrar and subsidiary of publicly-traded Rightside Group, recently suffered a “very sophisticated attack” by hackers. In an email to… Read More

Tech Moves: Startup vet Zachary Cohn joining 18F in D.C.; Rightside taps former Socrata exec as marketing VP; etc.

—Arriving in Seattle five years ago, Zachary Cohn plugged himself into nearly every facet of the startup community. A past GeekWire… Read More

Domain name operator Rightside posts 13% revenue gain, swings to profit

Rightside, the domain name operator that spun off from Demand Media last year, today reported double digit revenue growth and… Read More

Domain name services company Rightside posts Q4 revenue of $51.7M, up 14 percent

Kirkland-based domain name services company Rightside announced today that its business is growing on the back of increased interest in new top… Read More

Demand Media spinoff Rightside posts loss of $3.5M in first earnings report

Kirkland-based Rightside Group, a domain name service company that completed a spin off from Demand Media Inc. earlier this week, posted revenue of… 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

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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

Demand Media domain spinoff ‘Rightside’ will be based in Seattle region

Kirkland, Wash., will be home to a new domain services company called Rightside Group after its spinoff from Santa Monica,… Read More

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