Tag Archives: austin ventures

Mon 16th December 2013
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This association competence be peaceful to compensate $12,500 for a new second turn domain name - Who would pay over ten grand for a new second level domain name? A lot of people were in shock last week when GoDaddy unveiled its pricing for Donuts’ Early Access Program registrations. The Early Access Program (EAP) is Donuts’ version of the traditional landrush period. Instead of accepting applications and auctioning the domain names off the the highest bidder, EAP is sort of like a Dutch auction. The EAP goes on for five days, and the price to register a domain ... read more ...
Tue 5th June 2012
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Donuts raises $100 million, relates for 307 new TLDs - Flush with cash, new TLD applicant applies for 307 top level domains. Every week I check the SEC filings to see if Paul Stahura’s new TLD startup, Donuts, has raised more money. But every time I check there’s still just a filing about the $1 million it raised. And that number seemed just about right, since Stahura has gone on the record saying the company planned to apply for 10 top level domains. But today it dropped a shocker. The Wall Street Journal reports ... read more ...
Mon 16th May 2011
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Yep, Paul Stahura’s Donuts is All About New Top Level Domain Names - Another clue about Donuts’ plans. At first I could only make an educated guess that Paul Stahura’s new venture, for which he recently raised $1 million, was about new top level domain names. Then I got confirmation that the company was at least a domain name company thanks to a trademark filing. Now we know for sure. Donuts Inc. COO Richard Tindal just filed comments on the latest new top level domain name guidebook on behalf of the company. That means TL Ventures ... read more ...
Mon 2nd June 2008
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CreditCards.com Ditches IPO - Company cites market conditions for staying private. CreditCards.com, a credit card “super affiliate”, has yanked plans for an initial public offering. The company is famous in domain circles because of the value of its name. Internet Real Estate Group (a.k.a. DealJam) sold the domain name to Daniel H. Smith’s Click Success for $2.75 million in 2004. Smith pocketed a whopping $97.7 million when he sold the company to an Austin Ventures-backed outfit two ... read more ...