

On June 5, 2012, Donuts announced that it submitted applications for 307 generic top level domain names (gTLDs), including IDN TLDs, and secured $100 million in capital from multi-billion dollar private equity and venture funds. The transition did not include Afilias’ mobile software and registrar businesses. The Afilias registry business also included TLDs, such as. The acquisition granted Donuts access to the authoritative directories and DNS for over 200 top-level domains. In November 2020, Donuts acquired the Afilias registry for the prominence of its back-end registry platform, DNS solutions, and cybersecurity expertise, in particular. The company's headquarters is located in Bellevue, Washington. The company submitted 307 gTLD Applications and raised $100 million in financing, with a subsequent round of funding earmarked specifically for gTLD Auctions to resolve its 158 contention sets.


In April 2011, the company was raising capital based on the company's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Donuts had raised $1 million in equity financing. The company specializes in the discovery, registration, use, and monetization of domain names. Donuts manages the world's largest portfolio of gTLDs, including. Identity Digital (fka Donuts, as of June 22, 2022) is a registry operator and domain name consultancy co-founded by Paul Stahura, Jonathon Nevett, Richard Tindal, and Daniel Schindler.
