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
The Domains
Google Greatly Limiting Adult Advertisers on Adwords Starting Later This Month
Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords starting later this month: “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no long...
Discussion
Google Greatly Limiting Adult Advertisers on Adwords Starting Later This Month
Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords starting later this month: “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no long...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 3:32 pm
The Domains
Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018
Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s populat...
Discussion
Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018
Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s populat...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 2:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
One Domain Investor responsible for bulk of .webcam and .trade domain name registrations
One investor responsible for most domain name registrations in .webcam and .trade. A single domain name investor was responsible for a bulk of domain name registrations of Famous Four Media’s domain names launched yesterday. .Webcam added 3,655...
Discussion
One Domain Investor responsible for bulk of .webcam and .trade domain name registrations
One investor responsible for most domain name registrations in .webcam and .trade. A single domain name investor was responsible for a bulk of domain name registrations of Famous Four Media’s domain names launched yesterday. .Webcam added 3,655...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 2:07 pm
The Domains
Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629
Famous Four Media first new gTLD launched yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th most register...
Discussion
Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629
Famous Four Media first new gTLD launched yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th most register...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 1:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Watch: .Ninjas invade X Games
.Ninja sponsors the X Games. We’ve talked quite a bit on this blog about the need for top level domain name registries to promote their new domain names to end users. Here’s a great example of a company doing just that. The X Games came t...
Discussion
Watch: .Ninjas invade X Games
.Ninja sponsors the X Games. We’ve talked quite a bit on this blog about the need for top level domain name registries to promote their new domain names to end users. Here’s a great example of a company doing just that. The X Games came t...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 1:31 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD str...
Discussion
Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD str...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 1:20 pm
Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 10th, 2014
Today was a good day in the Cultra family. Probably more for my daughter than me. Apple shares divided in a 7 for 1 split giving us thousands more shares. I’ve told the story before but my family has been using Apple since 1976. &nb...
Discussion
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 10th, 2014
Today was a good day in the Cultra family. Probably more for my daughter than me. Apple shares divided in a 7 for 1 split giving us thousands more shares. I’ve told the story before but my family has been using Apple since 1976. &nb...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 11:33 am
The Domains
Owner of x.uk expects the short web address to fetch a record £10m
The Telegraph is out with a couple stories about the .UK extension. Stephen Fry is the first Brit to make the switch From the article: Stephen Fry has become the first person to make the switch to a .uk web domain as the service becomes availab...
Discussion
Owner of x.uk expects the short web address to fetch a record £10m
The Telegraph is out with a couple stories about the .UK extension. Stephen Fry is the first Brit to make the switch From the article: Stephen Fry has become the first person to make the switch to a .uk web domain as the service becomes availab...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 11:11 am
Domain Shane
Flippa – A Look Forward: Matt.net, VUM.com, Weights.com, BYE.com, other names from Eric Borgos and Anything.com
We’ve decided to split the weekly Flippa post into two: a recap of sales, and a look forward at interesting auctions coming down the pike in the next week or two. The look forward will include a range of name types and values, some of which hav...
Discussion
Flippa – A Look Forward: Matt.net, VUM.com, Weights.com, BYE.com, other names from Eric Borgos and Anything.com
We’ve decided to split the weekly Flippa post into two: a recap of sales, and a look forward at interesting auctions coming down the pike in the next week or two. The look forward will include a range of name types and values, some of which hav...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 12:28 am
Domain Name Wire
8 Things We Learned from GoDaddy’s IPO filing
GoDaddy filed its S-1 today to go public. I’ve skimmed the 250 pages to compile these seven data points that weren’t previously known. 1. GoDaddy has a lot of customers: 11.548M, to be exact. 2. The company had 2013 revenue of $1.13B. It ...
Discussion
8 Things We Learned from GoDaddy’s IPO filing
GoDaddy filed its S-1 today to go public. I’ve skimmed the 250 pages to compile these seven data points that weren’t previously known. 1. GoDaddy has a lot of customers: 11.548M, to be exact. 2. The company had 2013 revenue of $1.13B. It ...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 10:50 pm
