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Donuts slashes prices on a million domains

Donuts is to overhaul the pricing on 1.1 million registry-reserved “premium” domain names, taking hundreds of thousands out of premium status altogether. The company said today that it has decided to reduce the registration cost of 250,000 ...
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Donuts moves back to Bellevue

Registry for hundreds of top level domains returns to its original building. Top level domain name registry Donuts has returned to its former home in Bellevue, Washington. The company had been located down the street in Kirkland, Washington, where Rightside was located. Donuts acquired Rightside in 2017 and left its original office in Bellevue to […]

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Donuts: more M&A, focus on channel

CEO lays out priorities for new top level domain company. Donuts CEO Akram Atallah has provided an update on the top level domain company’s plans through the company’s blog. It’s his first published statement that I’m aware of since Abry Partners bought Donuts and installed him as CEO. In his message, he makes two pronouncements: […]

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Donuts acquires its 242nd gTLD

Donuts, the registry with the largest stable of new gTLDs, has added its 242nd string to its bow. The company seems to have acquired .contact from, nominally at least, smaller portfolio rival Top Level Spectrum. The ICANN contract for the gTLD was tran...
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Domain Registrars, tls, top level spectrum, whitepages.com .islam, .tr, censorship, Domain Policy, tommy robinson, turkey

.london disaster leads to mixed 2018 for MMX

New gTLD registry MMX, aka Minds + Machines, suffered a huge net loss in 2018, largely due to its disastrous .london contract, even while its operating fundamentals improved. For the year, MMX reported a net loss of $12.6 million, compared to a 2017 pr...
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Donuts raises prices on most TLDs by up to 9%

Portfolio registry Donuts is to jack up prices on most of its 241 gTLDs by up to 9% later this year. Base-rate price increases of between 6% and 9% will his 220 TLDs, while 16 will remain at their current pricing. The increases, which do not affect reg...
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Donuts to increase domain prices in October

Most of Donuts’ domains will be more costly soon. Domain name registry Donuts is raising prices October 1. On average, prices for standard domain registrations will increase 7%. Premium domain prices will remain unchanged. Of Donuts’ 241 top level domains, 16 will remain unchanged and 220 will increase by 6% to 9%. Some domain names […]

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