http://www.donuts.co/about/team/ http://www.donuts.co/about/team/ Do a ctrl+f for "ICANN" and you'll see how well-networked the Donuts.co team is. Can't be su

http://www.donuts.co/about/team/ http://www.donuts.co/about/team/ Do a ctrl+f for "ICANN" and you'll see how well-networked the Donuts.co team is. Can't be sure if this is true cronyism, or whether they just really know how to play the game. Not sure it's terribly different either way. --Edit-- per chrisacky's link above (http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/05/technology/donuts-domains-funding/ http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/05/technology/donuts-domains-fu...), it looks like Donuts.co submitted 307 applications at $185k/per, for a total of $56.8 million. That's a hell of a way to earn favors with ICANN while ostensibly just trying to get more picks.