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Donuts published their August domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 24% shorter and were hyphenated 9.4% less...
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September 9, 2021 Raymond Hackney
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Company is concerned about added-fee expired domain system and the precedent it could set. TurnCommerce, which operates the DropCatch expired domain platform, has raised concerns with ICANN about a new expired domain system Donuts plans to implement. Donuts has filed two Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP) requests (pdf, pdf) with ICANN to approve the new […]
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September 7, 2021 Andrew Allemann
Expired Domains, turncommerce
Donuts made the grade of the fastest growing companies in the Inc. magazine 5000 list. Over the years many well known companies have been on the list. (Microsoft, Under Armour, etc..). Full release NEW YORK and BELLEVUE, Wash., August 18, 2021 – Inc. m...
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August 18, 2021 Raymond Hackney
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Donuts published their July domain trend report. The report covers the top premium domain names registered, most registered SLD keywords and other data. In the month of July 2021, SLDs registered on Donuts TLDs were 22% shorter and were hyphe...
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August 7, 2021 Raymond Hackney
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ICANN has dismissed concerns from the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the recent acquisition of Donuts by Ethos Capital. Responding to a letter from EFF senior attorney Mitch Stoltz, ICANN chair Maarten Botterman said the deal had been thoroughly ...
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June 16, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries, eff, ethos
As Verisign does everything but declare outright victory in last week’s Independent Review Process result, .web rival Afilias is now strongly hinting that its lawyers are not quite ready to retire. John Kane, VP of Afilias (now Altanovo) said in ...
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June 1, 2021 Kevin Murphy
altanovo, Domain Registries, irp
Donuts has launched a tool to show off its TrueName offering, which blocks potential phishing attacks at the domain registry level. It’s like a regular name spinner, but instead of showing you available domains it shows you visually confusingly s...
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May 13, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Tech, homographs, phishing, TrueName
ICANN is set to reject a plea for it to reconsider its decision to allow Donuts to buy Afilias last December. Its Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee recently threw out a Request for Reconsideration filed by Dot Hotel and Domain Venture Partners,...
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May 12, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, dot hotel, dvp, reconsideration, rfr
The Electronic Frontier Foundation thinks the acquisition of Donuts by “secretive” private equity group Ethos Capital represents a risk to free speech. The deal, which sees Ethos buy a controlling stake from fellow PE firm Abry Partners, cl...
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April 2, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries, eff, ethos
ICANN appears determined to make its decision-making process when it comes to industry consolidation as opaque as possible. The Org has denied a request from two rival registries for information about how it approved the acquisition of Afilias by Donut...
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March 29, 2021 Kevin Murphy
didp, Domain Policy, dot hotel, dvp, transparency