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Donuts Acquires Afilias
Dec 29, 2020

Acquisition announced on November 19 closed on December 29, 2020

Bellevue Washington
December 29, 2020

Donuts Inc. to Acquire Afilias, Inc.
Nov 23, 2020

Acquisition amplifies Donuts’ commitment to security, stability and reliability in providing digital identity services across different registrar partners and registry services

BELLEVUE, WA
Nov. 19, 2020

Afilias Joins Global Encryption Coalition to Promote Internet Security
Aug 18, 2020

Horsham, PA– August 18, 2020 – Afilias, the world’s second largest domain name registry, today announced that it has joined the Global Encryption Coalition (globalencryption.org). 

New MailYourBallot.vote site supports Vote-by-Mail amid COVID concerns
May 04, 2020

Salt Lake City, UT – May 04, 2020 –Monolith Registry, the registry operator for the dotVOTEweb address today announces the launch of MailYourBallot.vote, a fast, easy to use central location to find the latest information about how to vote by mail in YOUR state. 

ILOVE.PR - Prime Domains Released for the PR Industry
Apr 27, 2020

Historic Release of 64,000 Premium Names Ending in .PR

San Juan, Puerto Rico – April 27, 2020 –  Today, nic.PR (the .PR registry operator) and Afilias (its technology partner) announce the release of 64,000 prime dotPR names beginning at 0900 EDT.

Blacknight Chooses Afilias for Managed DNS with Anycast
Apr 21, 2020

Horsham, Pennsylvania – April 20, 2020 - Afilias, the world’s second largest domain name registry, today announced that Blacknight has chosen Afilias for its Managed DNS service with Anycast technology.