A double Roman dominating function on a digraph D with vertex set V (D) is defined in [G. Hao, X. Chen and L. Volkmann, Double Roman domination in digraphs, Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc. (2017).] as a function f : V (D) → {0, 1, 2, 3} having the property that if f (v) = 0, then the vertex v must have at least two in-neighbors assigned 2 under f or one in-neighbor w with f (w) = 3, and if f (v) = 1, then the vertex v must have at least one in-neighbor u with f (u) ≥ 2. A set {f 1 , f 2 ,. .. , f d } of distinct double Roman dominating functions on D with the property that d i=1 f i (v) ≤ 3 for each v ∈ V (D) is called a double Roman dominating family (of functions) on D. The maximum number of functions in a double Roman dominating family on D is the double Roman domatic number of D, denoted by d dR (D). We initiate the study of the double Roman domatic number, and we present different sharp bounds on d dR (D). In addition, we determine the double Roman domatic number of some classes of digraphs.