Donuts

Donuts Inc.

Type of site

| Private
Founded| 2010; 16 years ago (2010)
Headquarters| Bellevue, Washington (state) , U.S.
Key people| Bruce Jaffe, CEO
Paul Stahura, Co-founder and Executive Chair
Jonathon Nevett, Co-founder
David Rostov, CFO
Industry| Internet
Website| https://donuts.domains
Alexa rank|  260,769 (November 2016[update])[1]

Donuts Inc. is a domain name registry with a portfolio of 242 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), as made possible by ICANN's gTLD expansion program. It was co-founded in 2010 by Paul Stahura, Jonathon Nevett, Richard Tindal, and Daniel Schindler. The company's headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington.

In September 2012, Donuts was ranked #14 in The Wall Street Journal's Top 50 Start-Ups for 2012. It was also the newest start-up on the list.[2] In 2017, founding CEO Paul Stahura became Executive Chair of the board of directors, and board member Bruce Jaffe became CEO. In July 2017, Donuts acquired Rightside, further augmenting its top-level domain portfolio, and was ranked #1 on the Deloitte Fast 500 North America list.[3]

On Sep 5, 2018 Donuts entered into an agreement to be acquired by private equity firm Abry Partners.[4]

In March 2020, Donuts named Mina Neuberg as its new Chief Marketing Officer.[5]

## References

1. ↑ "donuts.domains Site Overview". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/donuts.domains. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
2. ↑ Looking for the 'Next Big Thing'? Ranking the Top 50 Start-Ups, Online.WSJ.com. Published September 2012.
3. ↑ "Top five 2017 North America Fast 500 winners". Deloitte. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/fast500-winners.html. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
4. ↑ "Abry Partners Enters Into Agreement to Invest Majority Stake in Donuts Inc." (in en). https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/abry-partners-enters-into-agreement-to-invest-majority-stake-in-donuts-inc-300706706.html.
5. ↑ "Donuts hires CMO, signifying upshift in marketing strategy" (in en-US). 2020-03-03. https://domainnamewire.com/2020/03/03/donuts-cmo-neuberg/.

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