The news: Donuts, a domain name registry based in Bellevue, Wash., has been acquired by Ethos Capital, a private equity firm based in Boston. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ethos Capital previously invested in Donuts last year. What Donuts does: Founded in 2010 by Paul Stahura, the company sells 242 “top-level domains” including .social, .support, .email, and more. It manages nearly 25 million domain names. The company is led by Akram Atallah, a former executive at internet nonprofit ICANN. It has about 300 employees across four global offices.