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!
Blog View:
Domain Name Wire
Capital One just bought domains for a Washington DC stadium, too
Do the company’s naming rights plans expand beyond the Verizon Center? Earlier this week I broke the news that Capital One registered domain names suggesting it is buying the naming rights to what is now the Verizon Center in Washington DC. Now...
Discussion
Capital One just bought domains for a Washington DC stadium, too
Do the company’s naming rights plans expand beyond the Verizon Center? Earlier this week I broke the news that Capital One registered domain names suggesting it is buying the naming rights to what is now the Verizon Center in Washington DC. Now...
Discussion
August 5, 2017, 3:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Quick and Easy Ways to Boost User Engagement on Your WordPress Website
Here are ways to improve user engagement on your website. Have you developed one of your domain names into a website built on WordPress? Now it’s time to build up traffic to the site and get people to stay and return. So now what? This post dis...
Discussion
Quick and Easy Ways to Boost User Engagement on Your WordPress Website
Here are ways to improve user engagement on your website. Have you developed one of your domain names into a website built on WordPress? Now it’s time to build up traffic to the site and get people to stay and return. So now what? This post dis...
Discussion
August 4, 2017, 3:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers
No change at the top other than fewer registrations. ICANN published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for April 2017. There was no change in the order of the top five registrars ranked by to...
Discussion
.Com Winners & Losers
No change at the top other than fewer registrations. ICANN published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for April 2017. There was no change in the order of the top five registrars ranked by to...
Discussion
August 3, 2017, 5:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
14 more end user domain name sales
A wireless company, lingerie seller and printing company bought domain names last month. This week’s Sedo sales list was headlined by opensourcecms.com. It was an operating site and the buyer is some sort of dev shop, so you might be able to ch...
Discussion
14 more end user domain name sales
A wireless company, lingerie seller and printing company bought domain names last month. This week’s Sedo sales list was headlined by opensourcecms.com. It was an operating site and the buyer is some sort of dev shop, so you might be able to ch...
Discussion
August 3, 2017, 1:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Airbnb registered these outrageous domains after hotel industry launched outrageous ad campaign
AirBedandBombs, anyone? A hotel and union-backed group fighting short term vacation rentals launched an outrageous ad campaign this week linking Airbnb rentals to terrorism. Now Airbnb has made a bunch of defensive domain name registrations in respon...
Discussion
Airbnb registered these outrageous domains after hotel industry launched outrageous ad campaign
AirBedandBombs, anyone? A hotel and union-backed group fighting short term vacation rentals launched an outrageous ad campaign this week linking Airbnb rentals to terrorism. Now Airbnb has made a bunch of defensive domain name registrations in respon...
Discussion
August 2, 2017, 8:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Texas man sues Fortune 500 liquor company to overturn cybersquatting decision
Liquor company says that Rufino.com is a typo of its Ruffino brand. A Texas man who owns 60,000 domain names has sued Fortune 500 liquor company Constellation Brands, Inc in an effort to overturn an adverse Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Poli...
Discussion
Texas man sues Fortune 500 liquor company to overturn cybersquatting decision
Liquor company says that Rufino.com is a typo of its Ruffino brand. A Texas man who owns 60,000 domain names has sued Fortune 500 liquor company Constellation Brands, Inc in an effort to overturn an adverse Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Poli...
Discussion
August 2, 2017, 8:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
10 notable NameJet sales last month including PuffDaddy.com
From a Spanish-language domain for $55,200 to PuffDaddy.com, here are ten notable domains that sold on NameJet last month. We talked about NameJet a lot last month due to the shill bidding scandal, but the marketplace marches on. The site posted 92 s...
Discussion
10 notable NameJet sales last month including PuffDaddy.com
From a Spanish-language domain for $55,200 to PuffDaddy.com, here are ten notable domains that sold on NameJet last month. We talked about NameJet a lot last month due to the shill bidding scandal, but the marketplace marches on. The site posted 92 s...
Discussion
August 2, 2017, 4:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
SAP loses domain name in bad UDRP decision
WIPO panelist says domain should be transferred to competitor in India. A single-member World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has ordered a domain name owned by SAP Ariba (NYSE: SAP) be transferred to a procurement company in India. S...
Discussion
SAP loses domain name in bad UDRP decision
WIPO panelist says domain should be transferred to competitor in India. A single-member World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has ordered a domain name owned by SAP Ariba (NYSE: SAP) be transferred to a procurement company in India. S...
Discussion
August 2, 2017, 1:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
July’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
These were the top five most-viewed stories on Domain Name Wire in July. 1. McDonald’s takes domain names off the menu – McDonald’s exited the new top level domain program after deciding to relinquish its two domain names, .mcdonald...
Discussion
July’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
These were the top five most-viewed stories on Domain Name Wire in July. 1. McDonald’s takes domain names off the menu – McDonald’s exited the new top level domain program after deciding to relinquish its two domain names, .mcdonald...
Discussion
August 1, 2017, 6:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
XYZ files opening brief in request for Verisign to pay $1.6 million
Domain registry says lower court erred in three ways. XYZ.com LLC and Daniel Negari have filed their opening brief in an appeal against Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) over legal fees. If you haven’t been tracking this saga, here’s a quick overvi...
Discussion
XYZ files opening brief in request for Verisign to pay $1.6 million
Domain registry says lower court erred in three ways. XYZ.com LLC and Daniel Negari have filed their opening brief in an appeal against Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) over legal fees. If you haven’t been tracking this saga, here’s a quick overvi...
Discussion
August 1, 2017, 2:44 pm
