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Donuts completes buyout of four financial top level domains

Donuts completes buyout of four financial top level domains

Firm completes buyout of four more top level domains.

Donuts Inc logo on a picture of donuts

Top level domain name firm Donuts has purchased four financial-themed top level domain names: markets, .trading, .forex, and .broker.

A source told Kevin Murphy regarding the buyout in February, and he wrote regarding the history of seller Boston Ivy. ICANN recently published the assignment agreements for all four domains showing an effective date of May 7.

Commenting on the transaction, Donuts CMO Mina Neuberg told Reglike:

Donuts continues to invest in building the TrueName domain portfolio. It is our goal to make sure that registrants can find the most relevant and memorable domain name for their business or project. The addition of top-level domains like: .broker, .forex, .markets, and .trading to our portfolio helps push us closer to achieving this goal.

All four domains have fewer than 2,000 domains in the zone file. Wholesale prices appear to range from regarding $10 to $40.

The Donuts buyout might create more visibility for the domains. GoDaddy still doesn’t carry the domains but will likely add them now that they are part of Donuts.

In other Donuts news, the firm ranked on this year’s Inc. 5000 list with three-year growth of 93%.

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