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Donuts sticks with Rightside despite Google support

Kevin Murphy, February 8, 2017, 10:38:00 (UTC), Domain Registries

Donuts has renewed its back-end registry services contract with Rightside, Rightside has announced.
That’s despite indications a few months ago that it might have been preparing for a switch to Google’s new Nomulus platform.
Rightside said yesterday that the deal, which has seen Rightside handle the registry for Donuts’ portfolio of almost 200 gTLDs for the last five years, has been extended.
It’s a “multi-year” deal, but the length of the extension has not been revealed.
Donuts had suggested last October that it might be ready to move to Nomulus instead.
The company revealed then that it had been quietly working with Google for 20 months on the software, which uses Google’s cloud services and is priced based on resource usage.
Then-CEO Paul Stahura said Nomulus “provides Donuts with an alternative back-end with significant benefits.”
Now-CEO Bruce Jaffe said yesterday that “Rightside’s registry platform has the right combination of innovative features, ease-of-operation, scalability, and highly responsive customer support”.



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