Rightside
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| Industry: | Registry, Domain Name Services |
| Founded: | 2013 |
| Ownership: | Demand Media |
| Headquarters: | 5808 Lake Washington Blvd., Kirkland, WA 98033 |
| Country: | USA |
| Products: | New gTLDs, Domain Services |
| Website: | Rightside.co |
| Blog: | Rightside Blog |
| LinkedIn: | @rightside |
| Key People | |
| Taryn Naidu, CEO and Director | |
Rightside or Rightside Group, Ltd. is the Registry and Registrar business of Demand Media. It was started in 2013 as a way to separate the various businesses that Demand Media operates.
Subsidiaries[edit | edit source]
As the new Internet naming arm of Demand Media, a few of Demand Media's brands now fall under the Rightside brand. These include:
- Enom
- NameJet
- Name.com
- Rightside Registry
- Rightside Domains Europe Limited, the back-end registry operations for Rightside and for Donuts
Rightside Registry[edit | edit source]
Rightside is the applicant for a number of TLDs in the New gTLD Program. They applied for a number of them on their own and became owners of a number of TLDs through a partnership with Donuts. The company applied for all of its TLDs under subsidiary United TLD Holdco Ltd.
They currently have the following TLDs in their portfolio:
| TLD | # of Applicants | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| actor | 1 | |
| airforce | 1 | |
| army | 1 | |
| attorney | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| consulting | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| dance | 1 | |
| degree | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| democrat | 1 | |
| dentist | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| engineer | 1 | |
| futbol | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| gives | 1 | |
| haus | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| immobilien | 1 | |
| kaufen | 1 | |
| lawyer | 2 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. Donuts won the contention set in a Private auction against Top Level Domain Holdings. |
| market | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| moda | 1 | |
| mortgage | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| navy | 1 | |
| ninja | 1 | |
| pub | 1 | |
| rehab | 1 | |
| republican | 1 | |
| reviews | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| rocks | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| social | 1 | |
| software | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
| vet | 1 | Originally a Donuts application, ownership was transferred to Rightside. |
Staff[edit | edit source]
- Taryn Naidu, CEO and Director
- Tracy Knox, Chief Financial Officer
- Wayne Maclaurin, Chief Technology Officer
- David Ryan, VP & GM, Registry Services
- Jason Silverstein, Senior Vice President of Engineering
- Bill Glenn, Vice President of Marketing
- Jeff Eckhaus, SVP, Market Development and Policy
- Rick Danis, General Counsel
- Statton Hammock, VP, Business & Legal Affairs
- Melisah Burke, VP, Human Resources
- Dwayne Walker, Business & Marketing Development
- Dave Panos, Chairman of the Board[1]
Donuts' Offer & Rejection[edit | edit source]
On July 5, 2016 Rightside announced that its board rejected Donut's bid to purchase Rightside's current domain name portfolio. In response to the $70 million dollar bid, Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu stated that the amount "significantly undervalues" his company's domain holdings, further projecting that his company will generate revenue between $50 to 70 million annually for the next 3-5 years. [2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Executive Team Rightside.co; Retrieved 11 June 2014
- ↑ Rightside Rejects Donuts' Bid. Retrieved 06 Jul 2016.