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
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 countri ...
, 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
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 ...
and
registries that provide paid domain names via its subsidiaries’ registry operator status (for example, managing the
.social
This list of Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) ...
gTLD
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 eve ...
) 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 from leavened fried dough. It is popular in many countries and is prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and fra ...
.
References
Domain name registrars
American companies established in 2022
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