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
The unhappy decline of Oversee.net
Lawsuit reveals details on the company’s deal with Oak Hill and its subsequent fall from prominence. Oversee.net was once a high-flying darling of the domain name industry. It was rolling in dough–over $200 million a year in revenue at on...
Discussion
The unhappy decline of Oversee.net
Lawsuit reveals details on the company’s deal with Oak Hill and its subsequent fall from prominence. Oversee.net was once a high-flying darling of the domain name industry. It was rolling in dough–over $200 million a year in revenue at on...
Discussion
December 22, 2016, 3:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN gives Whois privacy services breathing room on new transfer policy
Board chairman instructs ICANN to defer compliance on part of new transfer policy. On December 1, a new domain name transfer policy went into effect that requires both the previous and new registrant of a domain name to approve changes to certain reg...
Discussion
ICANN gives Whois privacy services breathing room on new transfer policy
Board chairman instructs ICANN to defer compliance on part of new transfer policy. On December 1, a new domain name transfer policy went into effect that requires both the previous and new registrant of a domain name to approve changes to certain reg...
Discussion
December 22, 2016, 2:03 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, December 22nd
I decided I wanted to to study the most common word in the domain auctions over at Namepros. I figured it could give me a sense of what people are buying and selling. So I called in a favored and I borrowed a super computer at the University ...
Discussion
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, December 22nd
I decided I wanted to to study the most common word in the domain auctions over at Namepros. I figured it could give me a sense of what people are buying and selling. So I called in a favored and I borrowed a super computer at the University ...
Discussion
December 22, 2016, 10:28 am
The Domains
Are search engines killing the need for memorable domain names ?
Lindsay Gellman wrote an article for The Atlantic about domain names and them becoming less relevant in a world of superior search algorithms. Gellman wrote, “the front lines in a decades-long battle for prime virtual real estate had shifted fr...
Discussion
Are search engines killing the need for memorable domain names ?
Lindsay Gellman wrote an article for The Atlantic about domain names and them becoming less relevant in a world of superior search algorithms. Gellman wrote, “the front lines in a decades-long battle for prime virtual real estate had shifted fr...
Discussion
December 21, 2016, 6:52 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 20, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on December 20, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than a...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 20, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on December 20, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than a...
Discussion
December 21, 2016, 4:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
#8 in 2016: A New Trademark King?
Trying to trademark domain names you don’t even own? That’s enough to land on the top 10 stories for 2016. In 2014, I wrote about a hapless trademark applicant who spent about $50,000 in fees trying to trademark everything from Apple.com ...
Discussion
#8 in 2016: A New Trademark King?
Trying to trademark domain names you don’t even own? That’s enough to land on the top 10 stories for 2016. In 2014, I wrote about a hapless trademark applicant who spent about $50,000 in fees trying to trademark everything from Apple.com ...
Discussion
December 21, 2016, 3:00 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, December 21st
When I started out in this industry I was intimidated. I read the forums, the blogs, and went to the shows and saw all these people that were friends. Laughing and acting like they had been friends for life. Talking and spen...
Discussion
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, December 21st
When I started out in this industry I was intimidated. I read the forums, the blogs, and went to the shows and saw all these people that were friends. Laughing and acting like they had been friends for life. Talking and spen...
Discussion
December 21, 2016, 10:27 am
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by Arto.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Arto.com was the top sale at 12,000 Euros. This was a week where a lot of average and maybe to some people, below average names sold. The buy of the week in my opinion was TheBahamas.com for $2,999. Another week w...
Discussion
Sedo weekly sales led by Arto.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Arto.com was the top sale at 12,000 Euros. This was a week where a lot of average and maybe to some people, below average names sold. The buy of the week in my opinion was TheBahamas.com for $2,999. Another week w...
Discussion
December 20, 2016, 11:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Someone registered FourthHarmony.com yesterday
Group is down one performer. Should it be called Fourth Harmony? OMG! Like, Camila Cabello totally ditched Fifth Harmony this week. That means the music group is down to just four members, at least for now. OK, I couldn’t give a damn about this...
Discussion
Someone registered FourthHarmony.com yesterday
Group is down one performer. Should it be called Fourth Harmony? OMG! Like, Camila Cabello totally ditched Fifth Harmony this week. That means the music group is down to just four members, at least for now. OK, I couldn’t give a damn about this...
Discussion
December 20, 2016, 5:57 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 19, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on December 19, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than a...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 19, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on December 19, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than a...
Discussion
December 20, 2016, 5:57 pm
