Identity Digital

	Identity Digital Identity Digital Inc. is a company with affiliated entities that operate in the domain name industry, including a domain name registrar and registry services provider. The company acquired the registry operator and back-end registry services divisions of Afilias, Inc. in 2020. Both Donuts Inc. and Afilias Inc. were rebranded and brought under the single company brand name ''Identity Digital'' in 2022. Donuts Inc Donuts Inc. is a parent company with affiliated entities that operate in the domain name industry, including a domain name registrar and registries that provide paid domain names via its subsidiaries’ registry operator status (for example, managing the .social gTLD) and contracts between its subsidiaries and other registries and registrars. Afilias Afilias was founded in October 2000 by a group of 19 major domain name registrars. In November 2020, Afilias was acquired by the domain name registry operator, Donuts A doughnut or donut () is a type of food made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Afilias Afilias, Inc. is a US corporation that is the registry operator of the .info, .mobi and .pro top-level domain, service provider for registry operators of .org, .ngo, .lgbt, .asia, .aero, and a provider of domain name registry services for countries around the world, including .MN (Mongolia), .AG (Antigua and Barbuda), .BM (Bermuda), .BZ (Belize), . AC (Ascension Island), .GI (Gibraltar), .IO (Indian Ocean) .ME (Montenegro), .PR (Puerto Rico), .SC (the Seychelles), .SH (Saint Helena), .VC (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), and .AU (Australia). Afilias also provided ancillary support to other domains, including .SG (Singapore), .LA (Laos), and .HN (Honduras). History Afilias was formed in October 2000 by a group of 19 major domain name registrars. CEO Hal Lubsen, CTO Ram Mohan, CMO Roland LaPlante and Compliance Officer Steven Pack were the founding management team (2001). In February 2010, Afilias acquired mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd., the sponsoring organization and registry oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Donuts (company) Donuts Inc. is a domain name registrar and registry providing paid domain names under 270 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), as made possible by ICANN's gTLD expansion program, as well as 173 other TLDs including .au (ccTLD) and .org (gTLD managed by the Public Interest Registry), through its own registry status (for example, managing the .social gTLD) and contracts between its subsidiaries and other registries. It was co-founded in 2010 by Paul Stahura, Jonathon Nevett, Richard Tindal, and Daniel Schindler. The company's headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington. In July 2017, Donuts acquired Rightside, along with domain registrar Name.com. On August 11, 2018, Donuts entered into an agreement to be acquired by private equity firm Abry Partners. In December 2020, Donuts acquired the registry division of Afilias, Inc., a registry, registrar and mobile software developer headquartered outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2022, Afilias and Donuts Inc were merged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Domain Name Registrar A domain name registrar is a company that manages the reservation of Internet domain names. A domain name registrar must be accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry or a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry. A registrar operates in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries. History Until 1999, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI) operated the registries for the ''com'', ''net'', and ''org'' top-level domains (TLDs). In addition to the function of domain name registry operator, it was also the sole registrar for these domains. However, several companies had developed independent registrar services. In 1996 one such company, Ivan Pope's company, NetNames, developed the concept of a standalone commercial domain name registration service which would sell domain registration and other associated services to the public, effectively establishing the retail arm of an industry with the registries being the wholesalers. NSI assimilated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Domain Name Registry A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that enables third party entities to request administrative control of a domain name. Most registries operate on the top-level and second-level of the DNS. A registry operator, sometimes called a network information center (NIC), maintains all administrative data of the domain and generates a zone file which contains the addresses of the nameservers for each domain. Each registry is an organization that manages the registration of domain names within the domains for which it is responsible, controls the policies of domain name allocation, and technically operates its domain. It may also fulfill the function of a domain name registrar, or may delegate that function to other entities. Domain names are managed under a hierarchy headed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which manages the top of the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Social Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from the Latin word ''socii'' ("allies"). It is particularly derived from the Italian ''Socii'' states, historical allies of the Roman Republic (although they rebelled against Rome in the Social War of 91–87 BC). Social theorists In the view of Karl MarxMorrison, Ken. ''Marx, Durkheim, Weber. Formations of modern social thought'', human beings are intrinsically, necessarily and by definition social beings who, beyond being "gregarious creatures", cannot survive and meet their needs other than through social co-operation and association. Their social characteristics are therefore to a large extent an objectively given fact, stamped on them from birth and affirmed by socialization processes; and, according to Marx, in producing and reproducin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Generic Top-level Domain Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last level of every fully qualified domain name. They are called generic for historical reasons; initially, they were contrasted with country-specific TLDs in RFC 920. The core group of generic top-level domains consists of the .com, com, .net, net, .org, org, .biz, biz, and .info, info domains. In addition, the domains .name, name, and .pro, pro are also considered ''generic''; however, these are designated as ''restricted'', because registrations within them require proof of eligibility within the guidelines set for each. Historically, the group of generic top-level domains included domains, created in the early development of the domain name system, that are now sponsored by designated agencies or organizations and are restricted to specific types of r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Domain Name Registrars Domain may refer to: Mathematics Domain of a function, the set of input values for which the (total) function is defined Domain of definition of a partial function Natural domain of a partial function Domain of holomorphy of a function Domain (mathematical analysis), an open connected set * Domain of discourse, the set of entities over which logic variables may range * Domain of an algebraic structure, the set on which the algebraic structure is defined Domain theory, the study of certain subsets of continuous lattices that provided the first denotational semantics of the lambda calculus Domain (ring theory), a nontrivial ring without left or right zero divisors Integral domain, a non-trivial commutative ring without zero divisors Atomic domain, an integral domain in which every non-zero non-unit is a finite product of irreducible elements Bézout domain, an integral domain in which the sum of two principal ideals is again a principal ideal * Euclidean domain, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]