Donuts Inc is dedicated to making your most important online identity -- your domain name -- as meaningful and powerful as possible.
With over 240 top-level domains and millions of registrants, Donuts offers a wide variety of clear and meaningful names that can represent your identity online in the best possible way. Whether looking for business identifiers (.ltd), navigation (.support), vertical market specifics (.builders) or broad-based generics (.world), our portfolio offers unequaled precision and differentiation.
With offices in Seattle, London, Hong Kong, and LA, we are proud to sell our products through the world's leading registrars and resellers, including Go Daddy, Alibaba, and 1and1.
Location: United States, Washington, Bellevue
Employees: 501-1000
Total raised: $110M
Founded date: 2007
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 09.08.2017 | - | $110M | - |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.06.2022 | Building A Strong Online Community Before Launching Your Brand | Akram Atallah is CEO of Donuts Inc., a global leader in next-generation top-level domains and digital identity. |
| 10.03.2022 | ACE Says It ‘Shut Down’ Two Pirate Sites But That’s Not Quite The Full Story | Earlier this week an article was published in Variety detailing the massive task being undertaken by the anti-piracy team at the MPA and Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Jan van Voorn, the MPA’s executive vice president and chief ... |
| 01.04.2021 | Ethos Capital Acquires Majority Control of Donuts | Ethos Capital, a private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies, completed an investment to acquire a controlling interest of Seattle, WA-based Donuts, Inc., from Abry Partners. Led by Akram Atallah, CEO, Donuts simplifies and ... |
| 09.09.2020 | Cloudflare Must Expose Operators of Popular Pirate Streaming Sites | The online piracy ecosystem is constantly evolving. Ten years ago the entertainment industries were mostly concerned with torrent sites. Today, online streaming sites and services are the main challenges. To tackle this threat, some of the ... |
| 17.05.2018 | Donuts.Ventures Invests in Cognate | Donuts.Ventures, the investing arm of Donuts Inc., the global leader in high-quality, new top-level Internet domains, today announced it has made an investment in Cognate.com, a leading trademark protection service, which is powered by bloc... |
| 09.11.2017 | 10 Fastest Growing Tech Companies in the US | Every entrepreneur knows that if you're not growing, you're dying. It's not enough for companies to remain stagnant in the business world, as new and innovative ideas are popping up every day ready to dethrone even the most solidified of un... |
| 11.08.2017 | Seattle Week in Review: Pol Visits, Cash for Donuts, Local M&A | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints With a shift in the wind, the smoke over Seattle is clearing, only to be replaced by the fear of nuclear war. Tough to stay focused on the tech news, but we’re trying. Here’s ... |
| 10.08.2017 | Donuts Closes $110M in Financing | Donuts Inc., a Kirkland, Wash.-based global leader in top-level domains for promoting and enhancing digital identity, closed a $110m credit facility. The debt financing was led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of SVB Financial Group: Nasd... |
| 02.03.2017 | Private Anti-Piracy Deals With Domain Registries are Worrisome, Professor Warns | In recent years various entertainment industry groups have switched their efforts away from legislation, towards voluntary cooperation with various stakeholders. This has resulted in several agreements with Internet providers, advertising a... |
| 18.10.2016 | Google open sources the code that powers its domain registry | Google today released Nomulus, the Java-based registry platform that powers Google’s own .google and .foo top level domains (TLDs). Google says it started working on the technology behind Nomulus after the company applied to operate a numbe... |
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