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
Brothel beats Victoria’s Secret in titillating domain name dispute
…and it’s seriously a fascinating UDRP case. An Australian brothel has rebuffed an attempt by lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret to take its domain name VictoriasSecrets.com.au. The decision was handed down on a couple weeks ago a...
Discussion
Brothel beats Victoria’s Secret in titillating domain name dispute
…and it’s seriously a fascinating UDRP case. An Australian brothel has rebuffed an attempt by lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret to take its domain name VictoriasSecrets.com.au. The decision was handed down on a couple weeks ago a...
Discussion
July 19, 2012, 8:45 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy makes its first “business” acquisition
Go Daddy acquires Outright. More to come? Go Daddy today announced the acquisition of Outright, a provider of online financial software for small businesses. This is only the company’s third acquisition in its history, and the first one that in...
Discussion
Go Daddy makes its first “business” acquisition
Go Daddy acquires Outright. More to come? Go Daddy today announced the acquisition of Outright, a provider of online financial software for small businesses. This is only the company’s third acquisition in its history, and the first one that in...
Discussion
July 18, 2012, 3:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moniker auction ends tomorrow and Sedo gets AT.com exclusive
Auction has numerous bids but most are under reserve while Sedo lands a whale with AT.com brokerage deal. Moniker’s International Premium & ccTLD Auction ends tomorrow, and so far the names getting attention are neither ccTLDs or internatio...
Discussion
Moniker auction ends tomorrow and Sedo gets AT.com exclusive
Auction has numerous bids but most are under reserve while Sedo lands a whale with AT.com brokerage deal. Moniker’s International Premium & ccTLD Auction ends tomorrow, and so far the names getting attention are neither ccTLDs or internatio...
Discussion
July 18, 2012, 10:55 am
Domain Name Wire
Are there fewer domain conferences or just different domain conferences?
There are only two big domainer conferences this year, but domainers still find opportunities to get together. Two years ago you could have gone to a domain name conference every other month. This year there are just two big domain conferences: DOMAI...
Discussion
Are there fewer domain conferences or just different domain conferences?
There are only two big domainer conferences this year, but domainers still find opportunities to get together. Two years ago you could have gone to a domain name conference every other month. This year there are just two big domain conferences: DOMAI...
Discussion
July 18, 2012, 10:39 am
Domain Name Wire
Zynga acquires Chefville.com domain name
Zynga pockets key domain name for new game. Last month social gaming company Chefville announced its newest games including Chefville. But it didn’t have the Chefville.com domain name — until now. Chefville.com was registered back in Janu...
Discussion
Zynga acquires Chefville.com domain name
Zynga pockets key domain name for new game. Last month social gaming company Chefville announced its newest games including Chefville. But it didn’t have the Chefville.com domain name — until now. Chefville.com was registered back in Janu...
Discussion
July 18, 2012, 10:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Missed domain news roundup
Five domain name stories you may have missed this week. Sometimes it’s difficult to be at a conference and blog at the same time. So quite a few stories I wanted to write about this week are still in my “to do” box. Instead, here&rs...
Discussion
Missed domain news roundup
Five domain name stories you may have missed this week. Sometimes it’s difficult to be at a conference and blog at the same time. So quite a few stories I wanted to write about this week are still in my “to do” box. Instead, here&rs...
Discussion
July 18, 2012, 9:26 am
Domain Name Wire
Boston: the center of the domain name aftermarket
Two companies in Boston handle the bulk of the domain name aftermarket. I’m up in Boston for HostingCon, and spent my Monday visiting two of the largest and longest running domain name aftermarkets: NameMedia (Afternic) and Sedo. The two are se...
Discussion
Boston: the center of the domain name aftermarket
Two companies in Boston handle the bulk of the domain name aftermarket. I’m up in Boston for HostingCon, and spent my Monday visiting two of the largest and longest running domain name aftermarkets: NameMedia (Afternic) and Sedo. The two are se...
Discussion
July 17, 2012, 10:46 am
Domain Name Wire
DoorKings.com: this is why you hire a domain attorney for UDRP
A complainant’s UDRP filing should be pretty simple, if it knows what it’s doing. John Berryhill was ready. His client, United Marketing Group, Inc, had to prove to a WIPO panel that its domain names DoorKings.com and DKSOpeners.com were ...
Discussion
DoorKings.com: this is why you hire a domain attorney for UDRP
A complainant’s UDRP filing should be pretty simple, if it knows what it’s doing. John Berryhill was ready. His client, United Marketing Group, Inc, had to prove to a WIPO panel that its domain names DoorKings.com and DKSOpeners.com were ...
Discussion
July 17, 2012, 9:43 am
Domain Name Wire
That’s some (un)intellectual property
Attorney starts blog covering overzealous intellectual property enforcers. I write a lot about companies that seem to think they have universal rights to generic terms. Whether it’s a UDRP or a trademark lawsuit, some companies seem to think th...
Discussion
That’s some (un)intellectual property
Attorney starts blog covering overzealous intellectual property enforcers. I write a lot about companies that seem to think they have universal rights to generic terms. Whether it’s a UDRP or a trademark lawsuit, some companies seem to think th...
Discussion
July 16, 2012, 12:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Dyson sells bladeless fans, but doesn’t own the term
UDRP is was not creative for taking down site selling knock-offs. You may be familiar with Dyson, the company that makes mundane things (like vacuum cleaners) cool. One of its latest creations it the bladeless fan, which cools you off without the nee...
Discussion
Dyson sells bladeless fans, but doesn’t own the term
UDRP is was not creative for taking down site selling knock-offs. You may be familiar with Dyson, the company that makes mundane things (like vacuum cleaners) cool. One of its latest creations it the bladeless fan, which cools you off without the nee...
Discussion
July 16, 2012, 9:55 am
