Donuts, Inc. selected Sedo, to manage contention resolution for competing trademarked domains, and will also assist in auctioning premium names that will be reserved from general registration. Donuts will commence Sunrise periods in November 2013 and they will continue through the middle of 2014. Sunrise provides an opportunity for trademark holders to secure their names before domains are … [Read more...]
Donuts 1st 7 New gTLD’s Will Not Have a Landrush Period But Go Live After Sunrise On Jan 29
Donuts Inc., today announced that the “Sunrise” period for the first seven new gTLD names, the window during which trademark rights holders have exclusive access to registrations, will begin November 26, and close January 24, 2014. The other big news from today's announcement is that "Donuts will forgo a traditional land-rush and move directly to general availability to all registrants on … [Read more...]
Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping Mall
Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying "At a high level the existing name space is overused and worn out. As new businesses start up, they can't find what they want in the existing name space so they end up with a crazy mix of … [Read more...]
Donuts To Start Sunrise Period For 9 New gTLD’s On October 29th
The Donuts Inc. registry has just announced it will begin of the Sunrise period for 9 new gTLDs on October 29, 2013. The TLDs are: .CAMERA .CLOTHING .EQUIPMENT .GURU .HOLDINGS .LIGHTING .SINGLES .VENTURES .VOYAGE The Sunrise for each of the gTLDs will last 60 days, meaning that Landrush will most likely start right after the new year, in January 2014. Only … [Read more...]
Are These The 107 New gTLD Extensions Donuts Partnered With Demand Media On?
Donuts.co which applied for 307 new gTLD strings has stated all along that they were in partnership with Demand Media (DMD) on 107 of the applications. However I do not think Donuts or Demand have publicly stated which of the 107 new gTLD's that Donuts applied for that they are in a partnership with Demand Media on. Looking through some new gTLD applications today I found that 107 … [Read more...]
Looks Like 1st New gTLD Private Auction For This Week Is Over As Donuts Loses & TLDH Wins .Casa
It appears that the 1st of this weeks private auctions being held by Applicant Auction is completed as Donuts has withdrawn its application for .Casa on the ICANN website. Donuts application for .Casa has a prioritization number of 1,622 and has not yet passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) meaning that Donuts will get 70% refund of their $185,000 application fee. The only other applicant … [Read more...]
DONUTS EXPANDS SALES AND MARKETING TEAM, OPENS NEW OFFICE AHEAD OF NEW gTLD LAUNCH
Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), has completed a round of hiring that further strengthens its sector-leading team of domain and Internet industry experts. Donuts also announced the opening of its new office in Calabasas, Calif., where sales and marketing efforts are based. In anticipation of new gTLDs becoming available later this year, Donuts has … [Read more...]