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

The Domains
CIRA: Launches .IDN’s For .CA Domains & Holding Networking Event Tuesday In Montreal
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA.), the organization that manages the .CA Internet domain, now supports the use of all French characters in .CA domain names, allowing Canadians to register their .CAs correctly in both official langu...
Discussion
CIRA: Launches .IDN’s For .CA Domains & Holding Networking Event Tuesday In Montreal
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA.), the organization that manages the .CA Internet domain, now supports the use of all French characters in .CA domain names, allowing Canadians to register their .CAs correctly in both official langu...
Discussion
January 14, 2013, 11:04 am

Domain Name Wire
6 interesting domain news stories from the weekend
Breach notices, expiring domains, Groupons, and more. I’ll admit it. I don’t like to blog over the weekend. Thankfully, others are here to keep on top of things. Here are six interesting stories from the weekend that you should check out....
Discussion
6 interesting domain news stories from the weekend
Breach notices, expiring domains, Groupons, and more. I’ll admit it. I don’t like to blog over the weekend. Thankfully, others are here to keep on top of things. Here are six interesting stories from the weekend that you should check out....
Discussion
January 14, 2013, 10:55 am

The Domains
InteLend.com Hits The Market With $20 Million To Lend On Domain Names
Intelend.com is a relatively new company in the domain space and considers itself a digital pawn shop that makes loans just holding domain names as collateral again the loan. Loan are made to either give cash to domain owner or to help domainers with...
Discussion
InteLend.com Hits The Market With $20 Million To Lend On Domain Names
Intelend.com is a relatively new company in the domain space and considers itself a digital pawn shop that makes loans just holding domain names as collateral again the loan. Loan are made to either give cash to domain owner or to help domainers with...
Discussion
January 14, 2013, 10:08 am

Domain Name Wire
Why you probably don’t need to worry about cybersquatting on new top level domains
The amount of cybersquatting won’t increase much with new top level domains coming to market. One of the biggest worries trademark owners have about new top level domain names is that they’ll have to fight more cybersquatting battles as a...
Discussion
Why you probably don’t need to worry about cybersquatting on new top level domains
The amount of cybersquatting won’t increase much with new top level domains coming to market. One of the biggest worries trademark owners have about new top level domain names is that they’ll have to fight more cybersquatting battles as a...
Discussion
January 14, 2013, 10:05 am

Elliot's Blog
NameCheap Makes “Move Your Domain Day” an Annual Protest
A little over a year ago, Go Daddy’s position on SOPA (deservedly) brought quite a bit of negative publicity onto the company, although it later changed its position and opposed SOPA. Go Daddy competitor NameCheap spearheaded a domain tran...
Discussion
NameCheap Makes “Move Your Domain Day” an Annual Protest
A little over a year ago, Go Daddy’s position on SOPA (deservedly) brought quite a bit of negative publicity onto the company, although it later changed its position and opposed SOPA. Go Daddy competitor NameCheap spearheaded a domain tran...
Discussion
January 14, 2013, 9:45 am

The Domains
Architelos Marks Successful 2nd Year, Hits $2 Million in Sales & Launches NameSentry™
According to a press release out this morning, Architelos, Inc. a consulting and software company concentrated in the new gTLD space, announced it completion of its second year of business, “earning over $1.7 million in revenue and booking sale...
Discussion
Architelos Marks Successful 2nd Year, Hits $2 Million in Sales & Launches NameSentry™
According to a press release out this morning, Architelos, Inc. a consulting and software company concentrated in the new gTLD space, announced it completion of its second year of business, “earning over $1.7 million in revenue and booking sale...
Discussion
January 14, 2013, 8:53 am

DomainSherpa
Magic Castle, Galactic Spaceship and Webfest Global – With Aaron Kvitek
WebFest Global, the newly rebranded DomainFest, is coming to Santa Monica, California, in February 2013. It will have educational presentations ranging from SEO and mobile websites to affiliate marketing and new gTLDs.In the domaining world, as for m...
Discussion
Magic Castle, Galactic Spaceship and Webfest Global – With Aaron Kvitek
WebFest Global, the newly rebranded DomainFest, is coming to Santa Monica, California, in February 2013. It will have educational presentations ranging from SEO and mobile websites to affiliate marketing and new gTLDs.In the domaining world, as for m...
Discussion
January 14, 2013, 8:30 am

Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 14th
My nephew who is a musician out of the blue said he wanted to start a blog. I told him to put one up on blogger or tumblr and get the hang of it and then we’d get him a WordPress site. Go ahead and visit his three posts about Rock a...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 14th
My nephew who is a musician out of the blue said he wanted to start a blog. I told him to put one up on blogger or tumblr and get the hang of it and then we’d get him a WordPress site. Go ahead and visit his three posts about Rock a...
Discussion
January 14, 2013, 4:53 am

The Domains
Miamiherald.com Covers.Co Registry: “CO sets Sights On Changing ‘The Fabric of The Internet
Miamiherald.com, just covered the .Co registry in a story entitled: “.CO sets sights on changing ‘the Fabric of the Internet” The 5 page story starts out “For the millions of people who equate the Web with .com, . CO Internet ...
Discussion
Miamiherald.com Covers.Co Registry: “CO sets Sights On Changing ‘The Fabric of The Internet
Miamiherald.com, just covered the .Co registry in a story entitled: “.CO sets sights on changing ‘the Fabric of the Internet” The 5 page story starts out “For the millions of people who equate the Web with .com, . CO Internet ...
Discussion
January 13, 2013, 2:23 pm

Elliot's Blog
Real Estate Agents Discuss Why They Own RealEstate.com Domain Names
In 2010, I wrote an article asking if real estate agents understand domain names. At that point in time, it had been my experience that many did not realize the value of exact match domain names (EMDs). Since that time, I have closed a number of soli...
Discussion
Real Estate Agents Discuss Why They Own RealEstate.com Domain Names
In 2010, I wrote an article asking if real estate agents understand domain names. At that point in time, it had been my experience that many did not realize the value of exact match domain names (EMDs). Since that time, I have closed a number of soli...
Discussion
January 13, 2013, 1:42 pm