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
Study: Keyword-rich domains get more clicks
Study shows that domains with keywords matching a search query get more clicks. Verisign has published the results of a study showing that keyword-rich domain names matching a search query are more likely to get clicked in search results. For example...
Discussion
Study: Keyword-rich domains get more clicks
Study shows that domains with keywords matching a search query get more clicks. Verisign has published the results of a study showing that keyword-rich domain names matching a search query are more likely to get clicked in search results. For example...
Discussion
May 31, 2016, 4:01 pm

Domain Name Wire
Domain investor Adam Strong – DNW Podcast #86
Adam Strong discusses what type of domains he’s currently investing in and his domain-related businesses. Domain name investor Adam Strong has been in the game for a long time. But some of his bigger successes aren’t domains he bought 15 ...
Discussion
Domain investor Adam Strong – DNW Podcast #86
Adam Strong discusses what type of domains he’s currently investing in and his domain-related businesses. Domain name investor Adam Strong has been in the game for a long time. But some of his bigger successes aren’t domains he bought 15 ...
Discussion
May 31, 2016, 3:30 pm

Domain Name Wire
.VIP continues to roll, .Store has solid sunrise
40,000 more .vip registrations, .store has over 500 sunrise applications. The .VIP domain name continues to rack up registrations and the .Store registry says it’s off to a solid start. .VIP broke launch records when it was released earlier thi...
Discussion
.VIP continues to roll, .Store has solid sunrise
40,000 more .vip registrations, .store has over 500 sunrise applications. The .VIP domain name continues to rack up registrations and the .Store registry says it’s off to a solid start. .VIP broke launch records when it was released earlier thi...
Discussion
May 31, 2016, 2:13 pm

Domain Name Wire
This might be the best RDNH finding I’ve ever read
Only one panelist finds RDNH, but he writes a scathing critique. Impossible BV, a company that makes film for old-school Polaroid cameras, has lost a UDRP it filed against the domain name ImpossibleProject.com. Impossible BV uses the domain name Impo...
Discussion
This might be the best RDNH finding I’ve ever read
Only one panelist finds RDNH, but he writes a scathing critique. Impossible BV, a company that makes film for old-school Polaroid cameras, has lost a UDRP it filed against the domain name ImpossibleProject.com. Impossible BV uses the domain name Impo...
Discussion
May 31, 2016, 1:45 pm

Domain Name Wire
FeetFirst.com UDRP denied
Shoe company loses cyberquatting complaint. A three-person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP for FeetFirst.com, with one panelist finding reverse domain name hijacking. Nilson Group AB filed the cybersquatting complaint...
Discussion
FeetFirst.com UDRP denied
Shoe company loses cyberquatting complaint. A three-person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP for FeetFirst.com, with one panelist finding reverse domain name hijacking. Nilson Group AB filed the cybersquatting complaint...
Discussion
May 30, 2016, 2:11 pm

Domain Name Wire
.Club: An unprecedented look at a new TLD’s financials
.Club CEO Colin Campbell shares his company’s 2015 financial performance with Domain Name Wire. During a domain name session at WHD.usa yesterday, .Club CEO Colin Campbell talked candidly about his company’s performance, including that th...
Discussion
.Club: An unprecedented look at a new TLD’s financials
.Club CEO Colin Campbell shares his company’s 2015 financial performance with Domain Name Wire. During a domain name session at WHD.usa yesterday, .Club CEO Colin Campbell talked candidly about his company’s performance, including that th...
Discussion
May 27, 2016, 2:29 pm

Domain Name Wire
This UDRP should have been reverse domain name hijacking…
…yet it wasn’t even considered. Everything about the cybersquatting complaint Petrofac Services Limited filed against Petrofac Qatar WLL over the domain name petrofac-qatar.com screams “reverse domain name hijacking.” The res...
Discussion
This UDRP should have been reverse domain name hijacking…
…yet it wasn’t even considered. Everything about the cybersquatting complaint Petrofac Services Limited filed against Petrofac Qatar WLL over the domain name petrofac-qatar.com screams “reverse domain name hijacking.” The res...
Discussion
May 26, 2016, 7:07 pm

Domain Name Wire
WHD.usa kicks off in Phoenix
Hosting conference also attracts domain name companies. WHD.usa (World Hosting Days) kicked off yesterday at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass outside of Phoenix. Now in its second year in the U.S. (but many more globally), WHD.usa attracts a num...
Discussion
WHD.usa kicks off in Phoenix
Hosting conference also attracts domain name companies. WHD.usa (World Hosting Days) kicked off yesterday at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass outside of Phoenix. Now in its second year in the U.S. (but many more globally), WHD.usa attracts a num...
Discussion
May 26, 2016, 4:42 pm

Domain Name Wire
Yet another Entrepreneur Media lawsuit against an entrepreneur
This time a business consulting company is the target. I suppose at some point these lawsuits will cease to be considered news, but… Entrepreneur Media, the company that publishes Entrepreneur.com, has sued (pdf) yet another hapless entreprene...
Discussion
Yet another Entrepreneur Media lawsuit against an entrepreneur
This time a business consulting company is the target. I suppose at some point these lawsuits will cease to be considered news, but… Entrepreneur Media, the company that publishes Entrepreneur.com, has sued (pdf) yet another hapless entreprene...
Discussion
May 26, 2016, 4:19 pm

Domain Name Wire
13 end user domain name sales
A wide variety of end user domain buyers at Sedo this past week. Sedo had a solid sales week, completing 445 sales for $1.8 million. Among the buyers: a company that designs scents, a railway company that picked up a three letter .net and an herb gro...
Discussion
13 end user domain name sales
A wide variety of end user domain buyers at Sedo this past week. Sedo had a solid sales week, completing 445 sales for $1.8 million. Among the buyers: a company that designs scents, a railway company that picked up a three letter .net and an herb gro...
Discussion
May 26, 2016, 2:25 pm