Donuts
Type: | Privately held |
Industry: | Internet |
Founded: | 2010 |
Founder(s): | Paul Stahura Jonathon Nevett |
Headquarters: | 1720 205th Place NE Sammamish, WA 98074 |
Country: | USA |
Website: | donuts.co |
Key People | |
Paul Stahura, CEO Jonathon Nevett, EVP Daniel Schindler, Executive Officer |
Donuts is a start-up company offering registry services co-founded by Paul Stahura and Jonathon Nevett. In April 2011, Stahura said that the company is in stealth mode and it is raising capital. ased on the company's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Donuts raised $1 million equity financing. Daniel Schindler, Robert Verratti, Chris Pacitti and Richard Tindal are also part of the Donuts team. [1] In June 5, 2012, Donuts announced that the company applied for 307 generic top level domain names (gTLD) in various characters sets with ICANN's New gTLD Program. The company secured $100 million capital from from multi-billion dollar private equity and venture funds to finance its gTLD business and it will continue to raise additional fund if necessary to be able secure and operate every TLD the company has applied for.