Rightside

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Industry: Registry, Domain Name Services
Founded: 2013
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]

A number of brands now fall under the Rightside brand. These include:

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]

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]

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