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Donuts holds the world's largest new domain portfolio with 240 extensions.

Bruce Jaffe · 1003 With $150m Raised, He's Sold 3m "Weird" Domain Names · Apr 23, 2018 · at 1:32

Bruce Jaffe is the President and CEO of Donuts, a domain name registry service. He explains the company's core asset portfolio to Nathan Latka.

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“We are the world's largest portfolio of new, top-level domains, so think of that as domains such as .coffee.life.today.news, et cetera. We have about 240 of them”

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The claim, plainly

Donuts holds the world's largest portfolio of new top-level domains, owning approximately 240 extensions.

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Assessment

As of April 2018, Donuts held the world's largest portfolio of new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs) by a wide margin, operating between 238 and 242 extensions following its July 2017 acquisition of Rightside Group (which added 40 extensions to Donuts' existing portfolio of ~198 gTLDs). The second-largest portfolio operator at the time, Google's Charleston Road Registry, operated approximately 100 new gTLDs. Both the portfolio size approximation (~240 extensions) and the superlative market ranking are fully corroborated by ICANN registry records and domain industry data.

Between 2013 and 2016, Donuts executed ICANN registry agreements for 196 to 198 new gTLDs.
In July 2017, Donuts completed its acquisition of Rightside Group Ltd., adding 40 delegated new gTLD extensions.
Industry reports from August 2017 through 2018 confirmed Donuts operated a combined portfolio of approximately 240 extensions (ranging between 238 and 242).
As of April 2018, Donuts' portfolio of ~240 new gTLDs was the largest globally, with the next-largest operator (Google/Charleston Road Registry) managing approximately 100 extensions.

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[1] fastcompany.com [2] iprinfo.fi [3] prnewswire.com [4] domainnamewire.com [5] globenewswire.com [6] onlinedomain.com [7] nameshield.com [8] abry.com

"new gTLD" registry portfolio rankings 2017 OR 2018 "Donuts" Donuts new gTLD portfolio 240 Rightside 2017 2018 Donuts registry largest portfolio new top level domains 2018 Donuts ICANN registry agreements new gTLDs count 2018 "new gTLDs" largest registry operator "Donuts" 2018 Donuts Rightside acquisition number of gTLDs 2017 2018

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Disclosure

Donuts has raised approximately $150 million to acquire domain registries.

“Well, we have raised in total about a hundred and fifty million.”

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Insight

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

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