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
Top four selling keywords remain unchanged at Afternic
Yes, AI is still #1. Afternic has released a list of the top 20 keywords in domains that sold at Afternic in April. The top four keywords remained unchanged from March. Here’s the list of keywords for April, including their rankings from the pr...
Discussion
Top four selling keywords remain unchanged at Afternic
Yes, AI is still #1. Afternic has released a list of the top 20 keywords in domains that sold at Afternic in April. The top four keywords remained unchanged from March. Here’s the list of keywords for April, including their rankings from the pr...
Discussion
June 30, 2025, 6:30 pm

Domain Name Wire
ICANN moves conference from Oman to Dublin due to Middle East conflict
Potential for more airspace closures and travel delays push ICANN to relocate October meeting. ICANN announced today that it has moved its Annual General Meeting from Muscat, Oman to Dublin, Ireland. The move comes after tensions have ratcheted up in...
Discussion
ICANN moves conference from Oman to Dublin due to Middle East conflict
Potential for more airspace closures and travel delays push ICANN to relocate October meeting. ICANN announced today that it has moved its Annual General Meeting from Muscat, Oman to Dublin, Ireland. The move comes after tensions have ratcheted up in...
Discussion
June 30, 2025, 5:13 pm

Domain Name Wire
Ancestry.com files cybersquatting suit over AI-powered genealogy site using similar domain
Ancestry.com has filed a lawsuit under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act against the domain name MyAncestryAi .com. The company filed the in rem lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Virginia, where the .com registry Verisign is located. Anc...
Discussion
Ancestry.com files cybersquatting suit over AI-powered genealogy site using similar domain
Ancestry.com has filed a lawsuit under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act against the domain name MyAncestryAi .com. The company filed the in rem lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Virginia, where the .com registry Verisign is located. Anc...
Discussion
June 30, 2025, 4:31 pm

Domain Name Wire
Domains in the Middle East – DNW Podcast #541
Understand which domains are popular in the Middle East and learn about Domain Days. What’s the domain scene like in Dubai and the Middle East? Today’s guest, Munir Badr, shares which top level domain names are most commonly used in the a...
Discussion
Domains in the Middle East – DNW Podcast #541
Understand which domains are popular in the Middle East and learn about Domain Days. What’s the domain scene like in Dubai and the Middle East? Today’s guest, Munir Badr, shares which top level domain names are most commonly used in the a...
Discussion
June 30, 2025, 3:30 pm

Domain Name Wire
A second bite at the apple? WIPO panel allows refiled case
A WIPO panel decided to rehear a prior dispute based on new information, but the result was the same. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) decided to hear a refiled case, but it didn’t change the overall outcome of the domain dispu...
Discussion
A second bite at the apple? WIPO panel allows refiled case
A WIPO panel decided to rehear a prior dispute based on new information, but the result was the same. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) decided to hear a refiled case, but it didn’t change the overall outcome of the domain dispu...
Discussion
June 30, 2025, 3:23 pm

Domain Name Wire
Judge orders Monster to pay $350k stemming from failed escrow transaction
Final judgment will incur interest until it is paid. A King County judge has ordered (pdf) Rob Monster to pay a former Epik customer $349,407.61, and the total will incur interest until it is paid. The order stems from a failed escrow transacti...
Discussion
Judge orders Monster to pay $350k stemming from failed escrow transaction
Final judgment will incur interest until it is paid. A King County judge has ordered (pdf) Rob Monster to pay a former Epik customer $349,407.61, and the total will incur interest until it is paid. The order stems from a failed escrow transacti...
Discussion
June 27, 2025, 5:16 pm

Domain Name Wire
Hiking app tries to reverse hijack its way from .org to .com
Company operating at MyHikes.org tried to get the matching .com, which was registered well before it existed. A UDRP panelist has found MyHikes, LLC, which uses the domain name MyHikes.ORG, guilty of trying to reverse hijack the domain name MyHikes.C...
Discussion
Hiking app tries to reverse hijack its way from .org to .com
Company operating at MyHikes.org tried to get the matching .com, which was registered well before it existed. A UDRP panelist has found MyHikes, LLC, which uses the domain name MyHikes.ORG, guilty of trying to reverse hijack the domain name MyHikes.C...
Discussion
June 27, 2025, 3:40 pm

DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review – June 26, 2025 – Sell In May, Go Away?
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 19:57 mark) where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss th...
Discussion
DomainSherpa Review – June 26, 2025 – Sell In May, Go Away?
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 19:57 mark) where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss th...
Discussion
June 27, 2025, 12:04 am

Domain Name Wire
Here’s my two cents: renew your domains this month to save a couple pennies
Domain investors with large portfolios may want to renew domains in bulk before July to lock in the current rate. The so-called ICANN tax is about to go up. On July 1, 2025, at 00:00 UTC, the per-domain fee that customers pay to ICANN when they regis...
Discussion
Here’s my two cents: renew your domains this month to save a couple pennies
Domain investors with large portfolios may want to renew domains in bulk before July to lock in the current rate. The so-called ICANN tax is about to go up. On July 1, 2025, at 00:00 UTC, the per-domain fee that customers pay to ICANN when they regis...
Discussion
June 26, 2025, 9:05 pm

The Domains
Kevel.com for $100K in 2021
Another Throwback Thursday and Saw.com announced they helped a buyer secure Kevel.com back in 2021 for $100,000. DotDB.com shows Kevel registered in 23 extensions. The domain name is now developed, Kevel offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quick...
Discussion
Kevel.com for $100K in 2021
Another Throwback Thursday and Saw.com announced they helped a buyer secure Kevel.com back in 2021 for $100,000. DotDB.com shows Kevel registered in 23 extensions. The domain name is now developed, Kevel offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quick...
Discussion
June 26, 2025, 6:23 pm