Tag Archives: Donuts

Tue 9th February 2016
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Donuts signs robbery understanding with MPAA - Agreement says Donuts will investigate piracy claims as a last resort. New top level domain name company Donuts has inked a deal with Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in which Donuts will investigate cases of large-scale piracy on the domain names it operates. The deal isn’t a rapid takedown sort of agreement. It only says that the MPAA will be a “Trusted Notifier” of movie piracy sites. If the MPAA gets no resolution from working with a domain name registrar and hosting company ... read more ...
Mon 8th February 2016
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ICANN house resuscitates .Hospital tip turn domain name - Objection decision will be heard by new panel. ICANN’s board has approved a resolution that breathes new life into Donuts’ application to run the .hospital top level domain name. Back in 2013, an International Chamber of Commerce panel agreed with the Independent Objectors’ limited public interest objection to the .hospital top level domain name. It was a flawed decision that was inconsistent with similar objection decisions. Two members of the panel came up with their own rules for determining ... read more ...
Tue 2nd February 2016
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Bazaarvoice owner rising new association on .World domain name - Startup chooses data.world domain name. Austin entrepreneur Brett Hurt, who founded Bazaarvoice and later took it public, is launching a new startup on a new top level domain name. Hurt announced that he has joined up with a number of former Bazaarvoice execs who later went to HomeAway to found data.world. (HomeAway, another Austin company, was recently acquired by Expedia.) Data.world only has a splash page right now, and Hurt didn’t say what the company will do. Information about the company ... read more ...
Thu 10th December 2015
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Donuts: We are not Going To Delete New gTLD Extensions - Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primarily due to financial underperformance”. Donuts has responded strongly to debunk the report saying as the largest new gTLD operator they will not be closing down any new gTLD strings. Here is the statement Donuts gave to thedomains.com exclusively about the “report” “”One ... read more ...
Sun 29th November 2015
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.XYZ Has More Domain Registrations Than Donuts 183 gTLD's Combined - According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has more domain registrations than all of Donuts strings combined. Donuts has 1,527,510 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com (including 35,306 which are upcoming delete) while .XYZ has 1,560,576 active domains according to namestat.org. There are 183 new gTLD’s of Donuts in general availability (GA) meaning they can be registered on a first come first served basis The most registered Donuts new gTLD is .Guru with over 67,000 registrations. The least registered ... read more ...
Thu 12th November 2015
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Worldtrademarkreview.com: New gTLD's .Law & .Legal not Getting Much Love - According to the Wordldtrademarkreview.com,  the new gTLD space for lawyers which highlights .Legal, which  is unrestricted and .Law which is heavily restricted have gotten off to a very slow start. “An analysis of take-up within the two most relevant new gTLDs – ‘.law’ and ‘.legal’ – suggests that law firms are taking a tentative approach to their new gTLD registration strategies, with only a quarter of the sample we studied registering the equivalent of their key domain name in ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2015
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Donuts CEO Paul Stahura – DNW Podcast #58 - With close to 200 TLDs, Donuts is trying to bring choice to the domain name market. Paul Stahura is co-founder and CEO of Donuts, the company that runs more top level domain names than any other company…by far. It currently has nearly 200 domain names available. On today’s show, Paul discusses how the company picked the 307 domains it applied for, the $150M+ it raised, pricing strategies for new domains an how he thinks the market for these domain names will unfold. Also: .Sony, GoDaddy earnings, ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2015
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3 Applicants For New gTLD .Radio File For Independent Review Process - According to a press release out today, BRS Media, has filed, in conjunction with two other applicants, an Independent Review Process in accordance with Article IV, section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws re: The .RADIO gTLD and .RADIO Community Priority Evaluation Results. Although not mentioned in the press release the other two applicants are Afilias and Donuts. “”On Sept. 10, 2014 ICANN announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Results “Prevailed” ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2015
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MyRescue.Dog Awards A Total of $100,000 to 16 Local Dog Shelters - Petfinder Foundation announced the winners of the MyRescue.dog fundraising campaign, a month-long effort to celebrate rescue dogs and raise funds for the shelters and rescue organizations that save them. The campaign began on National Dog Day August 26 and ran through Sept. 26 www.MyRescue.dog a site built on a new domain extension of the new gTLD domain name registry Donuts. The “top dog,” a dachshund named Cora-Bella, won a $25,000 donation for Midwest Dachshund Rescue based in Highland,IN Lori ... read more ...
Thu 15th October 2015
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ICANN Board to rethink .Hospital preference subsequent week - .Hospital has been on life support since bad objection decision. .Hospital is on life support.ICANN’s Board of Directors will consider the fate of a .Hospital top level domain name when it meets on Sunday. It’s a chance for the board to right a wrong. .Hospital was killed off after two of three panelists agreed with a Limited Public Interest Objection filed by the Independent Objector. The panelists disregarded the guidelines and essentially created their own standard for if .hospital should ... read more ...
Tue 13th October 2015
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Famous Four Media Becomes 3rd New gTLD Registry To Pass 1 Million Domains - According to a Press Release out today, Famous Four Media has become the 3rd new gTLD registry to pass one million domain names. Donuts was the first to hit 1,000,000 domain registrations but they  offer well over  100 new domain extensions for sale. .XYZ was the second registry to hit 1,000,000 domain names but they did that only on 1 new domain extension .XYZ. According to the press release; Famous Four Media “reached this milestone in just over a year following the launch of its first Top ... read more ...
Tue 6th October 2015
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.XXX, .Porn., .Adult & .Sex Start Selling Premium Domains Through Registrars + 2 Characters - ICM Registry (ICM) which operates .xxx as well as the new gTLD’s .porn, .adult and .sex announced today the launch of its tiered-pricing, premium names program for .XXX, .ADULT, .PORN and .SEX.domain names. ICM is joining a growing list of new gTLD registries who are selling the vast majority of its premium domain names through the registrar channel with premium registration and renewal prices. These names include SEO based keywords as well as two character names. ICM will continue sell some of ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2015
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Microsoft registers 6 2-letter domain names - Microsoft registers at least a half dozen short domains. New top level domain name company Donuts released thousands of two character domains under its top level domain names last week. Microsoft was among the buyers. I count at least a half dozen two character domains registered by the company: ad.center ie.domains ie.gallery ie.photos os.expert pc.engineering The top four names are arguably brand domains, while the last two are more generic/descriptive. IE are the initials for Internet Explorer, ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2015
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Donuts Sells Around 800 Two Character New gTLD's Domains In The Early Access Program - According to Donuts they sold around 800 Two Character New gTLD’s domain names in its Early Access Program (EAP) which ended yesterday. Donuts released around 200,000 Two Character New gTLD’s domain names last week,  meaning domain names that are two letters (LL), a letter and a number (LN), a number and a letter (NL) and two numbers (NN). The Early Access Program allowed customers to register domain name head of General Availability for an extra fee. General Availability of two Character New ... read more ...
Mon 14th September 2015
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This week: a domain for .Men and dual minute Donuts - Smaller Donuts are available this week. There are a couple interesting top level domain name launches this week. On Wednesday, Famous Four Media launches the .men domain name. I’m not really sure why people will register these domains; I suspect they will mostly be used for mens’ fashion and perhaps adult entertainment. More notable, on Wednesday you can start registering two character domain names in Donuts’ top level domain names at regular registration prices. The domains are currently ... read more ...
Thu 10th September 2015
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Donuts Gets At Least 20 Two Letter Domain Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP For adult To $12,500 Each - Donuts released over 200,000 two character domain names across all of its extensions in its Early Access Program (EAP) and we counted at least 20 registrations, on Day 1 although we are sure there are more. The domains that were registered on day 1 ranged IMHO to great domains well with the money to domains I wouldn’t have registered in General Availability. The wholesale cost for a EAP day 1 domain name registration is $10,000.  The retail price varies by domain name registrar but seems to be ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
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Donuts releasing 2 impression domain names this week - TV.show, RX.delivery and other domains are available for registration on Wednesday. Have your eye on a two character domain name in one of Donuts’ domain names? You can start registering them on Wednesday, September 9. Previously withheld two letter domain names, such as TV.show and NY.pizza, will debut with a seven day Dutch auction tomorrow. This is essentially the same as Early Access, which has been run for all Donuts releases and name collision names. The following Wednesday, names will revert ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2015
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This week: .Amsterdam, .Fans, .FYI and .MBA - New domain names become available Tuesday and Wednesday this week. A handful of new domain names are hitting domain registrars’ shelves this week. On Tuesday, .Amsterdam enters general availability. There is a fairly limited list of domain name registrars on nic.amsterdam, but 101Domain is offering them for $41.99. On Wednesday, you can start showing you’re a fan with .Fans. It’s an expensive domain priced at $70-$100 retail. Also, be careful with trademarked terms. Also on Wednesday, two of ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2015
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Questionable investment: RetailMeNot spends $4.3 million for new domain names - Company has common investor with new top level domain company Donuts. Struggling Austin internet company RetailMeNot spent $4.3 million to acquire second level domain names under a new top level domain name, an SEC filing revealed. The purchase was first reported by George Kirikos, and OnlineDomain wrote about it earlier today. While the SEC filing doesn’t disclose the top level domain or registry, it almost certainly is Donuts. The common denominator is Austin Ventures, which backed both RetailMeNot ... read more ...
 
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A New Platform Benefiting Homeless Dogs; MyRescue.Dog Launched By PetFinder & Donuts - Petfinder Foundation (in partnership with Donuts Inc.) announced today the launch of MyRescue.dog a website to generate money and awareness for homeless dogs. “MyRescue.dog is a site where adopters can post pictures and short stories about their beloved rescues, and consumers can vote for their favorites through September 26. Each posted picture generates a $10 donation to Petfinder Foundation, and each vote generates a $1 donation, all up to $100,000. The shelter or rescue group from which the ... read more ...
 
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Get .online this week… - Radix releases a big new top level domain name this week. One of the most anticipated top level domain names of the entire new top level domain name program is releasing in general availability on Wednesday. Radix’s .online will exit Early Access and revert to regular pricing on Wednesday. On day 5 of early access, the company processed over 500 registrations within the first hour. Its sunrise garnered 775 registrations. Radix had teamed up with Tucows and NameCheap in a partnership for the domain ... read more ...
Tue 18th August 2015
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This week's new TLDs: A large week for Donuts, Radix - Donuts releases 5 domains in GA and 3 in early access and Radix preps its “big” one. It feels like 2014 again this week, as Donuts releases a slew of new top level domain names to the marketplace. On Wednesday it will release .dog, .theater, .taxi, .hockey and .run at regular pricing as Early Access concludes. It will also begin the early access for .movie, .coupons and .soccer. It’s also a big week for Radix as it begins a seven day early access period for .online. The company is targeting ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2015
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Donuts: Verisign perplexing to intimidate, brag competitors with .XYZ lawsuit - New top level domain company issues statement after court finds in its favor. A judge in U.S. District Court in Washington state has denied Verisign’s request for reconsideration in a subpoena battle involving competitor Donuts. Donuts says Verisign is trying to intimated and bully competitors through similar subpoenas. Verisign subpoenaed Donuts as a non-party in the .com registry’s lawsuit against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Donuts fought back, asking the court to quash the subpoena. The judge ... read more ...
Fri 14th August 2015
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Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names - According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD’s under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD’s. However CentralNic is the backend provider for just 24 new gTLD’s at the moment while Donuts has 189 active new gTLD’s using its backend system. In layman’s ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2015
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Donuts Becomes 1st new gTLD Registry to Join The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) - Donuts has become the 1st new gTLD registry to join the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) as a Silver member. The ICA is a non-profit advocating for the rights and interests of domain name owners and related service providers. Although Donuts is also a member of the DNA (As is a company I’m a Director of,  RightoftheDot.com) the DNA and the ICA have different mission statements. The ICA is the only organization which is “concentrated on protecting the rights of domain name registrants” ... read more ...