Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Rightside, Donuts Extend gTLD Deal

Kirkland-based Rightside Group Ltd., and Bellevue-based Donuts announced today that the two have extended an agreement, where Rightside provides back-end registry services to Donuts generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Financial details of the deal were not announced. Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu said that the the company has a "long history of working closely with Donuts", and is an extension of an existing five-year-relationship between the two companies. Donuts actually had been in a hostile bid for Rightside last year, which had been rejected by Rightside.