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
Want to be ICANN’s next CEO?
Non-profit publishes profile of desired CEO. Want to be the CEO of an organization launching a highly controversial expansion of the internet namespace and seeing its budget double or triple your first year on the job? ICANN has a job for you. Today ...
Discussion
Want to be ICANN’s next CEO?
Non-profit publishes profile of desired CEO. Want to be the CEO of an organization launching a highly controversial expansion of the internet namespace and seeing its budget double or triple your first year on the job? ICANN has a job for you. Today ...
Discussion
December 12, 2011, 11:03 am
Domain Name Wire
Company manages to get .secure trademark
Company going after .bank and .secure domain names gets a (weak) trademark. A company hoping to offer .bank and .secure domain names has managed to get a trademark for .secure from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — albeit on the supplement...
Discussion
Company manages to get .secure trademark
Company going after .bank and .secure domain names gets a (weak) trademark. A company hoping to offer .bank and .secure domain names has managed to get a trademark for .secure from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — albeit on the supplement...
Discussion
December 12, 2011, 10:53 am
Domain Name Wire
Huffington Post Gets Sexsquatted
California man registers HuffingtonPost.xxx. .XXX domain names opened up for registration last week, but it looks like one big brand may have missed the message. HuffingtonPost.xxx was registered by a California man shortly after the registry opened ...
Discussion
Huffington Post Gets Sexsquatted
California man registers HuffingtonPost.xxx. .XXX domain names opened up for registration last week, but it looks like one big brand may have missed the message. HuffingtonPost.xxx was registered by a California man shortly after the registry opened ...
Discussion
December 12, 2011, 9:11 am
Domain Name Wire
With 1 month to go, new TLD program still full of uncertainties
New TLD investors face a big challenge: uncertainty. The application window for new top level domain names opens one month from today. It’s kind of funny to think about it. The internet community has been working on new TLDs for so many years, ...
Discussion
With 1 month to go, new TLD program still full of uncertainties
New TLD investors face a big challenge: uncertainty. The application window for new top level domain names opens one month from today. It’s kind of funny to think about it. The internet community has been working on new TLDs for so many years, ...
Discussion
December 12, 2011, 8:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com buys SmartIsBeautiful.com — a new brand?
What does company plan to do with domain? Is being smart beautiful? And if so, are you smart enough to figure out why Amazon.com just bought SmartIsBeautiful.com? The domain name was owned by BuyDomains until July 21, 2011, according to historical wh...
Discussion
Amazon.com buys SmartIsBeautiful.com — a new brand?
What does company plan to do with domain? Is being smart beautiful? And if so, are you smart enough to figure out why Amazon.com just bought SmartIsBeautiful.com? The domain name was owned by BuyDomains until July 21, 2011, according to historical wh...
Discussion
December 9, 2011, 9:15 am
Domain Name Wire
8 possible headlines for yesterday’s New TLD hearing
How do you describe an uneventful congressional hearing? Yesterday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about the introduction of new top level domains. The session, lightly attended by senators, was a bit bland. But here are 8 possible headl...
Discussion
8 possible headlines for yesterday’s New TLD hearing
How do you describe an uneventful congressional hearing? Yesterday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about the introduction of new top level domains. The session, lightly attended by senators, was a bit bland. But here are 8 possible headl...
Discussion
December 9, 2011, 8:59 am
Domain Name Wire
How Hall.com picked its name and bought it for $20,000
Company founder has great message about the importance of (domain) names. Brett Hellman of chat and collaboration company Hall.com today posted an intriguing insight into the company’s naming process. It explains how the company’s initial...
Discussion
How Hall.com picked its name and bought it for $20,000
Company founder has great message about the importance of (domain) names. Brett Hellman of chat and collaboration company Hall.com today posted an intriguing insight into the company’s naming process. It explains how the company’s initial...
Discussion
December 8, 2011, 9:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign releases DomainCountdown for expired domains
.Com and .net registry released more data on expiring domain names. VeriSign has just released a beta of DomainCountdown, a source of data on expiring domain names. DomainCountdown provides a wealth of information about domain names in pending delete...
Discussion
VeriSign releases DomainCountdown for expired domains
.Com and .net registry released more data on expiring domain names. VeriSign has just released a beta of DomainCountdown, a source of data on expiring domain names. DomainCountdown provides a wealth of information about domain names in pending delete...
Discussion
December 8, 2011, 4:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
New software will connect dots between “rogue web sites”
Company says it will help legal efforts against counterfeit goods sales. As congress debates the Stop Online Piracy Act (STOP) and companies file dozens of lawsuits against counterfeiters, a New York company claims to be developing software to aid in...
Discussion
New software will connect dots between “rogue web sites”
Company says it will help legal efforts against counterfeit goods sales. As congress debates the Stop Online Piracy Act (STOP) and companies file dozens of lawsuits against counterfeiters, a New York company claims to be developing software to aid in...
Discussion
December 8, 2011, 3:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
What a disgraceful UDRP decision
UDRP makes it hard for entrepreneur to start his consulting business. UDRP mostly gets it right. It sometimes gets it wrong. Other times it gets it absolutely, disgracefully wrong. Consider the case of a Minnesota man who wants to set up a consulting...
Discussion
What a disgraceful UDRP decision
UDRP makes it hard for entrepreneur to start his consulting business. UDRP mostly gets it right. It sometimes gets it wrong. Other times it gets it absolutely, disgracefully wrong. Consider the case of a Minnesota man who wants to set up a consulting...
Discussion
December 8, 2011, 11:15 am
