What is "donuts"

n. (plural of donut English)

Donuts is the second and final studio album by the American hip hop producer J Dilla, released on February 7, 2006, the day of his 32nd birthday, by Stones Throw, and three days before his death. The album itself is an instrumental hip hop album. On Metacritic, Donuts received "universal acclaim" from critics based on an aggregate score of 84/100 from 15 reviews. Pitchfork Media ranked the album number 38 on their list of the top 50 albums of 2006 and 66 on their list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s.

Donuts or Donuts Inc. is a start-up company that was created to apply and run new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as made possible by ICANN's gTLD expansion program; it was co-founded by Paul Stahura, Jonathon Nevett, Richard Tindal, and Daniel Schindler. In April 2011, the company was in stealth mode and raising capital; based on the company's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Donuts raised US$1 million equity financing. Since then it has submitted 307 gTLD applications and secured an initial investment of $100 million in financing, and a subsequent round of an undisclosed amount though apparently it "almost doubles" its reserves. The second round of funding was earmarked specifically for gTLD auctions to resolve its 158 contention sets. The company's headquarters is located in Bellevue, Washington.

In September 2012, Donuts was ranked #14 in The Wall Street Journal's Top 50 Start-Ups for 2012. It was also the newest start-up on the list.