Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit operator of the .ORG domain, has announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously selected Jonathon Nevett as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 17, 2018. Nevett co-founded Donuts Inc. in 2010 and served as Donuts’ executive vice president for corporate affairs and on its Board of Directors. …
During the ICANN 63 in Barcelona, David Redl, the chief U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), gave his input into the Donut’s hiring of ICANN’s GDD Chief Akram Attalah. The US Rep suggested there should be a cooling off period for ICANN employees to maintain ethics. NTIA has sent a follow-up letter which appears …
The current ICANN and first president of ICANN’s Global Domains Division has quit his post and is headed to Donuts to assume the role of CEO, the firm has announced. Current CEO of the global leader in high-quality, new top-level Internet domains, Bruce Jaffe is stepping down and will continue to act as a senior advisor to …
SEATTLE, Feb. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Donuts Inc., the global leader in new top-level Internet domains, today announced it has acquired the .TRAVEL domain name from registry operator Tralliance Registry Management Company. The .TRAVEL domain becomes Donuts’ 239th TLD, and the centerpiece of an already-robust portfolio of travel domains that includes: .CITY, .CRUISES, .FLIGHTS, .GUIDE, .HOLIDAY, .IRISH, …
Donuts and Famous Four must now settle a contention set for .charity. It will be interesting to see if Famous Four is still interested in the string.This comes after a DSRP Panel denied a community objection against Donuts’ .charity top level domain name application. This means that the Donuts is officially back in the running …
The domain name registry operator of the larget new domain extensions portfolio Donuts Inc., and Rightside Group, Ltd. have announced an agreement and Plan of Merger under which Donuts will acquire Rightside for $10.60 per share in an all-cash tender offer, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $213 million. The purchase price represents a …
June 14, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) and Donuts Inc., a leading domain name registry for new domain extensions, today announced that the two companies have entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which Donuts will acquire Rightside for $10.60 per share in an all-cash tender …
Donuts has amended its lawsuit against ICANN and demands $22.5 million for the .Web domain. This is Donut’s continuing legal battle with ICANN. The amended complaint (pdf) is filed in the federal district court in California. Last week, the auction for .web, which closed for a record $135 million, the company had attempted to stop …
A dissenting panelist on the .Sports IRP decision of 5th May 2016 notes ICANN’s actions on the .Africa IRP which is the only applicant to beat ICANN and proceeded to sue in a California court. The .sports /.sport new gTLD: Two applicants SportAccord and Famous Four Media applied for .sport top level domain in 2012, …
According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has become the first domain name registration to have registered more than 500,000 domain names. Godaddy has 500,091 new gTLD domain names under registration, 100,000 more than the second closest domain registrar, Network Solution which topped the 400,000 domain mark although around 377K of the 400,000 Network Solutions domain names were …