Donuts (company)
Donuts Inc. is a domain name registry with a portfolio of 242 new generic top-level domains, 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 Journals Top 50 Start-Ups for 2012. It was also the newest start-up on the list. 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.
On Sep 5, 2018 Donuts entered into an agreement to be acquired by private equity firm Abry Partners.
In March 2020, Donuts named Mina Neuberg as its new Chief Marketing Officer.
