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  • Erik Uden 🚩ErikUden@mastodon.de
    Aug 3, 2026, 11:37 AM

    The current CEO of Identity Digital (formerly Donuts Inc) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN's global domain division, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet.

    Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain ending (.shop, .brand, .gmbh) a price tag of 200k USD.

    Interestingly enough, the one business that jumped on this newly and artificially created market of top level domains, was Donuts Inc., whom Akram Atallah then became CEO of. Today, they control ~37.1% of all new top level domains, as they created hundreds of shell companies to bypass limitations.

    I have a list of all shell companies, public records proving they all tie back to him and Donuts Inc., and he's proudly bragging about having done this on LinkedIn so it's not really a conspiracy but known corruption.

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  • Erik Uden 🚩ErikUden@mastodon.de
    Aug 3, 2026, 12:11 PM

    Also, I put “own” and “run” into quotation marks because I just know y'all nerds would skin me alive if I explain things in a simple manner

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  • Erik Uden 🚩ErikUden@mastodon.de
    Aug 3, 2026, 4:38 PM

    Okay, I guess you really enjoy the story about ICANN and internet corruption. I am now in contact with a few newspapers to get my (now 5 year old) research published. Considering lots of this stuff has been removed from the net and many records lost, I realize my hard drive is among the few places that has this evidence.

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  • Erik Uden 🚩ErikUden@mastodon.de
    Aug 4, 2026, 12:16 AM

    Identity Digital, formerly Donuts Inc, founded 307 shell companies to bypass ICANN limitations on buying or managing top level domains. The following is a list of the 197 of them that actually ended up owning a top level domain:

    Half Oaks, LLC
    Knob Town, LLC
    Steel Falls, LLC
    June Maple, LLC
    Baxter Hill, LLC
    Half Hallow, LLC
    Grand Hollow, LLC
    Sand Cedar, LLC
    Over Galley, LLC
    Atomic Madison, LLC
    Spring Cross, LLC
    Half Sunset, LLC
    Pioneer Canyon, LLC
    Atomic Maple, LLC
    Delta Dynamite, LLC
    Delta Mill, LLC
    Foggy Hollow, LLC
    Goose Cross, LLC
    Wild Corner, LLC
    Delta Lake, LLC
    Binky Sky, LLC
    New Falls. LLC
    Tin Mill, LLC
    Sand Fields, LLC
    Sand Cover, LLC
    Holly Fileds, LLC
    Snow Sky, LLC
    Black Corner, LLC
    Fox Shadow, LLC
    Goose Park, LLC
    Steel Lake, LLC
    Koko Island, LLC
    Puff Willow, LLC
    Trixy Cover, LLC
    Fox Orchard, LLC
    Silver Avenue, LLC
    Pine Mill, LLC
    Pine House, LLC
    Fox Dynamite, LLC
    Magic Woods, LLC
    Koko Lake, LLC
    Black Island, LLC
    Snow Shadow, LLC
    Binky Frostbite, LLC
    Spring Way, LLC
    Pine Fest, LLC
    Sand Sunset, LLC
    Steel Station, LLC
    Tin Birch, LLC
    John Edge, LLC
    Dash Park, LLC
    Half Trail, LLC
    Extra Madison, LLC
    Holly Hill, LLC
    Brice Trail, LLC
    Koko Mill, LLC
    Sugar Cross, LLC
    Brice Way, LLC
    Spring Madison, LLC
    Binky Birch, LLC
    Romeo Canyon
    Snow Oaks, LLC
    Corn Station, LLC
    Trixy Park, LLC
    Pioneer Maple, LLC
    Spring Falls, LLC
    Magic Pass, LLC
    Victor Beach, LLC
    Sea Sunset, LLC
    Atomic Pipe, LLC
    Just Maple, LLC
    Cotton Cypress, LLC
    Just Cover, LLC
    Fox Woods, LLC
    Brice Orchard, LLC
    Fox Station, LLC
    Half Cypress, LLC
    Foggy Farms, LLC
    John Dale, LLC
    John Castle, LLC
    Lone Fields, LLC
    Silver Tigers, LLC
    Sugar House, LLC
    Goose Sky, LLC
    Black Cover, LLC
    Extra Dynamite, LLC
    June Edge, LLC
    Lone Falls, LLC
    Over Madison, LLC
    Pioneer Tigers, LLC
    Corn Sunset, LLC
    Romeo Town, LLC
    Snow Moon, LLC
    Pioneer Cypress, LLC
    Silver Glen, LLC
    Half Willow, LLC
    John Madison, LLC
    Goose Woods, LLC
    Ruby Pike, LLC
    Sugar Park, LLC
    Auburn Bloom, LLC
    Outer House, LLC
    Outer Maple, LLC
    Pioneer Willow, LLC
    Wild Way, LLC
    Holly Glen, LLC
    Tin Mill LLC
    Wild Frostbite, LLC
    Wild Bloom, LLC
    Just Goodbye, LLC
    Pine Moon, LLC
    Victor Trail, LLC
    Blue Falls, LLC
    Trixy Oaks, LLC
    John McCook, LLC
    Big Fest, LLC
    Hidden Frostbite, LLC
    June Woods, LLC
    Over Corner, LLC
    Victor Frostbite, LLC
    John Goodbye, LLC
    Fern Pass, LLC
    Lone Hollow, LLC
    Grand Glen, LLC
    Dog Beach, LLC
    Outer McCook, LLC
    New Frostbite, LLC
    Trixy Manor, LLC
    Magic Glen, LLC
    Sea Goodbye, LLC
    Sugar Glen, LLC
    Sea Corner, LLC
    Foggy Sky, LLC
    Foggy Moon, LLC
    Snow Galley, LLC
    Spring Tigers, LLC
    Sugar Mill, LLC
    Magic Birch, LLC
    Big Pass, LLC
    Grand Island, LLC
    Foggy Way, LLC
    New Cypress, LLC
    Big Hollow,LLC
    Lone Sunset, LLC
    Binky Glen, LLC
    Snow Avenue, LLC
    Snow Park, LLC
    Outer Orchard, LLC
    Delta Orchard, LLC
    Little Galley, LLC
    Outer Moon, LLC
    Fox Castle, LLC
    Binky Galley, LLC
    Over Keep, LLC
    Snow Beach, LLC
    Fern Madison, LLC
    Foggy Shadow, LLC
    Ruby Town, LLC
    Silver Cover, LLC
    Binky Moon, LLC
    Atomic Fields, LLC
    Half Falls, LLC
    Grand Orchard, LLC
    Tin Avenue, LLC
    Dash Cypress, LLC
    Storm Orchard, LLC
    Pine Falls, LLC
    Atomic Lake, LLC
    Auburn Falls, LLC
    Cotton Bloom, LLC
    Blue Tigers, LLC
    Victor Manor, LLC
    Corn Willow, LLC
    Dog Edge, LLC
    Pearl Woods, LLC
    Pioneer North, LLC
    Sugar Station, LLC
    Koko Moon, LLC
    Pioneer Orchard, LLC
    Wild Willow, LLC
    Little Station, LLC
    Atomic Tigers, LLC
    Binky Lake, LLC
    Black Madison, LLC
    New Sky, LLC
    Holly Shadow, LLC
    Koko Station, LLC
    Ruby House, LLC
    Sand Shadow, LLC
    June Station, LLC
    Little Dynamite, LLC
    Bitter Fields, LLC
    Hidden Way, LLC
    Wild Island, LLC
    Will Bloom, LLC
    Spring Fields, LLC
    Dash McCook, LLC
    Outer Falls, LLC

    Between February and August 2018 all of these transferred their TLD to “Binky Moon LLC”, except for two, which transferred it to “Dog Beach LLC”. A lot of the new ones were then registered by “Dog Beach LLC”.

    I'm not accusing anyone of any wrongdoing, but how many innocent people do you know with 307 shell companies?

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  • Erik Uden 🚩ErikUden@mastodon.de
    Aug 4, 2026, 12:22 AM

    When a friend of mine saw how many top level domains belonged to one and the same company while he worked on “The Internet Portal”, we began researching and found this one blog post titled “Donuts, Inc: a creepy company” which claims to have last been edited in 2018, but actually tracked Donuts Inc's doings through the Web Archive up until 2021, as can be seen in the linked Google Sheets document.

    It's really odd how a billion dollar company has such little media coverage or knowledge about it online.

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  • ploumploum@mamot.fr
    Aug 3, 2026, 12:24 PM

    @ErikUden : how does he profit from it ?

    And why call it corruption? Who is corrupting what?

    (but, yes, that’s straight conflict of interest scam)

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  • Erik Uden 🚩ErikUden@mastodon.de
    Aug 3, 2026, 12:33 PM

    @ploum he created a market and his company was the only one with the best ties and knowledge on how that market worked. Up until a few years ago, the process of even being eligible to register such a TLD was very intransparent.

    I'd call it insider knowledge.

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  • Erik Uden 🚩ErikUden@mastodon.de
    Aug 3, 2026, 2:20 PM

    @carstenfranke @ploum exactly. There's no need for a “.google” or ".amazon” TLD beyond these corporations needing to buy them in order to prevent someone else from doing so. 200k for a business like Amazon is nothing.

    Being able to have “.scot” or “.cat” (Scotland and Catalonia) which are obvious regions but wouldn't get their own TLD as they aren't listed as a country by the ISO standard, is good, but there should've been a better way.

    The domain ending “.exposed” is another crime like this. It's astronomically expensive to register a .exposed domain and all big businesses do so in order to not have a site meant for exposing them.

    The fact that ".zip” or “.mov” was allowed as a gTLD is the newest of this scharade.

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  • Carsten Frankecarstenfranke@mastodon.social
    Aug 3, 2026, 2:38 PM

    @ErikUden @ploum it would be great if there was a browser / email function to simply block everything from those TLDs.

    Very frustrating to see all these guys in power using their positions for personal scams and profit.

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  • Marcos Dionemdione@en.osm.town
    Aug 3, 2026, 5:27 PM

    @Canageek windows still run `.COM`... no, wait, is there still a `COMMAND.COM` file in windows?!?@>?>! These come from DOS time, which they took from CP/M, and I don't think, I mean, I hope no compiler still produces those?

    @ErikUden @carstenfranke @ploum

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  • Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io
    Aug 3, 2026, 6:03 PM

    @ErikUden @carstenfranke @ploum I talk to companies almost every month about protecting the hundreds of domains they’ve got registered to avoid phishing and fraud. This need is brought on by the very existence of these worthless gTLDs. It is entirely there to profit off people who must protect themselves from the resultant threat. Just like protection money paid to gangsters!

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  • Erik Uden 🚩ErikUden@mastodon.de
    Aug 3, 2026, 7:53 PM

    @suzannealdrich hey, odd question: May I ask you to contact me via Signal (link in my Mastodon profile) so we can discuss this further? I'd like to write an article in a German newspaper about this and would like you as a source, as it's otherwise pretty hard to visualize the damage of this industry, or at least a perspective on new gTLDs.

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  • Simon Brookesimon_brooke@mastodon.scot
    Aug 3, 2026, 3:24 PM

    @ErikUden the commercialisation of the domain registries is a scandal of which the @internetsociety should be thoroughly ashamed. It should have been an international public utility from the start.

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  • SemmelstulleSemmelstulle@mastodon.social
    Aug 4, 2026, 5:29 AM

    @ErikUden "Meine Entschuldigung an Apo Red ICANN" Video series dropping soon?

    Edit: the Apo Red was formatted as strike through, I guess Mastodon doesn't support that

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