Welcome to DomainToad
DomainToad is a free and easy way to read your domain name related news.
We aggregate the most popular sources of information and present them in chronological order.
If you would like to have daily headlines sent directly to your email every day, sign up for our newsletter!
We aggregate the most popular sources of information and present them in chronological order.
If you would like to have daily headlines sent directly to your email every day, sign up for our newsletter!
Latest News
Domain Name Wire
Donuts’ Claims Plus service starts today
Trademark Claims end, Claims Plus begins. One of the Rights Protections measures in place for new top level domain names is the Trademark Claims service. For 90 days after a new TLD enters general availability, registrars must show a notice if a seco...
Discussion
Donuts’ Claims Plus service starts today
Trademark Claims end, Claims Plus begins. One of the Rights Protections measures in place for new top level domain names is the Trademark Claims service. For 90 days after a new TLD enters general availability, registrars must show a notice if a seco...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 5:39 pm
The Domains
Autos.de Sells For $166,000
The domain name Autos.de just crossed the Sedo sales wiring selling for for 120 Euro’s or around $166,000 based on today’s exchange rates. The buyer of the domain appears to be DAY Investments GmbH out of Austria whose website is at Day.e...
Discussion
Autos.de Sells For $166,000
The domain name Autos.de just crossed the Sedo sales wiring selling for for 120 Euro’s or around $166,000 based on today’s exchange rates. The buyer of the domain appears to be DAY Investments GmbH out of Austria whose website is at Day.e...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 3:53 pm
The Domains
ThreatConnect Partners With DomainTools & Farsight Security
According to a press release just out, Cyber Squared Inc. which owns ThreatConnect™, a leading threat intelligence platform, entered into a partnership with DomainTools and Farsight Security, Inc. to provide ThreatConnect users with the industr...
Discussion
ThreatConnect Partners With DomainTools & Farsight Security
According to a press release just out, Cyber Squared Inc. which owns ThreatConnect™, a leading threat intelligence platform, entered into a partnership with DomainTools and Farsight Security, Inc. to provide ThreatConnect users with the industr...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 3:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
22 end user domain sales and some premium .co.com sales
GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell about $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Before jumping into the regular end user sales list, I want to point out a couple premium .co.com sales. SurfMyAds.com, a company that creates shopping sites, p...
Discussion
22 end user domain sales and some premium .co.com sales
GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell about $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Before jumping into the regular end user sales list, I want to point out a couple premium .co.com sales. SurfMyAds.com, a company that creates shopping sites, p...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 2:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLD auction prices hitting highs: Minds + Machines, Uniregistry, Donuts all win some domains
Average purchase prices may be north of $3 million. By all accounts, registries paid much more to settle contention sets during last week’s private auctions than in previous ones. Minds + Machines won auctions for .garden and .yoga. It spent a ...
Discussion
New TLD auction prices hitting highs: Minds + Machines, Uniregistry, Donuts all win some domains
Average purchase prices may be north of $3 million. By all accounts, registries paid much more to settle contention sets during last week’s private auctions than in previous ones. Minds + Machines won auctions for .garden and .yoga. It spent a ...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 1:43 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Wins Auctions For .Garden & .Yoga Loses .Deals & .Property & Pays $5.97M
The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions held last week for .deals, .garden, .property and .yoga, the Company has secured the uncontested application rights for .garden an...
Discussion
Minds + Machines Wins Auctions For .Garden & .Yoga Loses .Deals & .Property & Pays $5.97M
The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions held last week for .deals, .garden, .property and .yoga, the Company has secured the uncontested application rights for .garden an...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 1:24 pm
Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 30th, 2014
I may be the only person in the domain industry who’s parking income keeps going up. But it’s not because I am getting better returns. It’s that I keep adding more domains. I’m sure Berkens makes more from one name...
Discussion
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 30th, 2014
I may be the only person in the domain industry who’s parking income keeps going up. But it’s not because I am getting better returns. It’s that I keep adding more domains. I’m sure Berkens makes more from one name...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 11:05 am
DomainSherpa
Why You Can’t Afford to Miss TRAFFIC West May 28-31 With Rick Schwartz, Howard Neu
Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu, the co-founders of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name industry conference, join Michael Cyger to discuss T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West taking place May 28th through May 31st in Las Vegas, Nevada.Questions answered include:* What can p...
Discussion
Why You Can’t Afford to Miss TRAFFIC West May 28-31 With Rick Schwartz, Howard Neu
Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu, the co-founders of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name industry conference, join Michael Cyger to discuss T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West taking place May 28th through May 31st in Las Vegas, Nevada.Questions answered include:* What can p...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 7:04 am
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million Led By FlashCards.com For $250,000
During the past week 445 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: flashcards.com at ...
Discussion
Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million Led By FlashCards.com For $250,000
During the past week 445 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: flashcards.com at ...
Discussion
April 30, 2014, 4:27 am
The Domains
Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.7million in domains for the week
GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 4/21/14 – 4/27/14. The top sale for the week was Modernize.com at $25,000. Prostate.info was the top non .com sale at $15,000 Total Sales $1,778,547 for the week. Buffa...
Discussion
Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.7million in domains for the week
GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 4/21/14 – 4/27/14. The top sale for the week was Modernize.com at $25,000. Prostate.info was the top non .com sale at $15,000 Total Sales $1,778,547 for the week. Buffa...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 10:46 pm
