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Donuts completes Afilias buyout

Donuts completes Afilias buyout

Donuts now owns Afilias.

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Top level domain name firm Donuts has completed its buyout of Afilias, the firm disclosed today.

Donuts’ CEO Akram Atallah stated, “We expect no changes in the short term, and ample notice on any changes that are decided. Security, stability and reliability continue to be our top priorities.”

Those changes could be a rationalization of two different registry platforms. Donuts will likely tread carefully in order to not upset the registrar channel.

It will also be interesting to see which employees stay with the combined firm. There is significant overlap between the two firms, which was surely part of the equation when Donuts determined how much it was willing to pay for Afilias.

ICANN staff apprised its board of the transaction, likely since of the involvement of ICANN’s former CEO, but did not take any action to prevent the transaction.

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