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:
The Domains
You Should Keep In Mind The Huge Tax Hikes Coming Next Year When Deciding Whether To Sell Domains
If you make $200K or more there is a huge tax hike coming for next year if you are in the United States. In the domain business it can only tax one domain name sale to put you over the top into the “rich people” tax bracket. Its pretty ha...
Discussion
You Should Keep In Mind The Huge Tax Hikes Coming Next Year When Deciding Whether To Sell Domains
If you make $200K or more there is a huge tax hike coming for next year if you are in the United States. In the domain business it can only tax one domain name sale to put you over the top into the “rich people” tax bracket. Its pretty ha...
Discussion
February 29, 2012, 8:08 pm
The Domains
Grandparents.com Last Sold In 2010, Becomes A Public Company & Raises $3 Million
Grandparents.com, Inc., has become a public company. The domain was acquired by the owners in 2010. According to a Press Release today, “the company formerly known as NorWesTech, Inc. (OTCBB: NWTH), a Delaware corporation (the “Company&rd...
Discussion
Grandparents.com Last Sold In 2010, Becomes A Public Company & Raises $3 Million
Grandparents.com, Inc., has become a public company. The domain was acquired by the owners in 2010. According to a Press Release today, “the company formerly known as NorWesTech, Inc. (OTCBB: NWTH), a Delaware corporation (the “Company&rd...
Discussion
February 29, 2012, 1:35 pm
The Domains
Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.4 Million In Domain Names Led by ApartmentListings.com & Tech.Pro
Afternic.com just published its weekly sales of domain names and sold a total of $ 1,374,675. Its reportable sales were led by ApartmentListings.com for $87,500 Interestingly a .Pro took 2nd place with Tech.pro selling for $25,500 This is the 2nd big...
Discussion
Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.4 Million In Domain Names Led by ApartmentListings.com & Tech.Pro
Afternic.com just published its weekly sales of domain names and sold a total of $ 1,374,675. Its reportable sales were led by ApartmentListings.com for $87,500 Interestingly a .Pro took 2nd place with Tech.pro selling for $25,500 This is the 2nd big...
Discussion
February 28, 2012, 5:18 pm
The Domains
Sedo.com Has Its Best Week Of The Year Selling Over 1,200 Domains for Over $3.5 Million
Sedo.com just had a Apple like week, selling over 1,200 domain names for over $3.5 Million dollars in sales In all 1207 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $3.5 million. 31.4% of total sales were the result of Buy Now l...
Discussion
Sedo.com Has Its Best Week Of The Year Selling Over 1,200 Domains for Over $3.5 Million
Sedo.com just had a Apple like week, selling over 1,200 domain names for over $3.5 Million dollars in sales In all 1207 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $3.5 million. 31.4% of total sales were the result of Buy Now l...
Discussion
February 28, 2012, 4:23 pm
The Domains
Feds Not Only Seize The Domain Name Bodog.com But Indict The 4 Owners/Operators Including Calvin Ayre
Last night Calvin Ayre broke the news that the domain name Bodog.com had been seized by the federal government. Today the Feds broke the news to Mr. Ayre that he has been indicted along with three others described by the Feds as the “owners or ...
Discussion
Feds Not Only Seize The Domain Name Bodog.com But Indict The 4 Owners/Operators Including Calvin Ayre
Last night Calvin Ayre broke the news that the domain name Bodog.com had been seized by the federal government. Today the Feds broke the news to Mr. Ayre that he has been indicted along with three others described by the Feds as the “owners or ...
Discussion
February 28, 2012, 12:24 pm
The Domains
The Founder Of Flickr Maybe On The Other Side, As PinWheel.com Threatens Over Pinweel.com
TechCrunch.com covered the story today over the what seems to be an upcoming battle between PinWheel.com and Pinweel.com What makes this story really interesting is that the co-founder of the correctly spelled PinWheel.com, Caterina Fake was th...
Discussion
The Founder Of Flickr Maybe On The Other Side, As PinWheel.com Threatens Over Pinweel.com
TechCrunch.com covered the story today over the what seems to be an upcoming battle between PinWheel.com and Pinweel.com What makes this story really interesting is that the co-founder of the correctly spelled PinWheel.com, Caterina Fake was th...
Discussion
February 27, 2012, 8:33 pm
The Domains
Google Blogs About Out 40 Changes It Made In February
Google just published on its blog, 40 changes to search quality “This month we have many improvements to celebrate. With 40 changes reported, that marks a new record for our monthly series on search quality. Most of the updates rolled out...
Discussion
Google Blogs About Out 40 Changes It Made In February
Google just published on its blog, 40 changes to search quality “This month we have many improvements to celebrate. With 40 changes reported, that marks a new record for our monthly series on search quality. Most of the updates rolled out...
Discussion
February 27, 2012, 2:46 pm
The Domains
Here’s A UDRP That Will Drive The TM Crowd Nuts MariahRadio.com
In A UDRP issued today a one member panel denied the complaint of a trademark holder on the domain name MariahRadio.com While we often write about questionable to outright awful UDRP decisions where domain names are taken away from the holders this o...
Discussion
Here’s A UDRP That Will Drive The TM Crowd Nuts MariahRadio.com
In A UDRP issued today a one member panel denied the complaint of a trademark holder on the domain name MariahRadio.com While we often write about questionable to outright awful UDRP decisions where domain names are taken away from the holders this o...
Discussion
February 27, 2012, 12:00 pm
The Domains
100,000 New gTLD by 2020? One Blogger Has Just Made That Prediction
Naseem Javed is a frequent author of articles on domain names and gTLD issues and has articles he has written have been published fairly frequently by CircleId.com He just published a post on business2community.com, making the case that there w...
Discussion
100,000 New gTLD by 2020? One Blogger Has Just Made That Prediction
Naseem Javed is a frequent author of articles on domain names and gTLD issues and has articles he has written have been published fairly frequently by CircleId.com He just published a post on business2community.com, making the case that there w...
Discussion
February 27, 2012, 10:28 am
The Domains
First 7 Figure .TV Domain Name Sale To Be Reported “Within A Week To A Fortune 500 Company”??
According to a comment left on TheDomains.com on our post about Verisign’s renewal of the .TV contract, the first seven figure domain name is going to be reported to DnJournal.com “within a week” The commentator goes on to say that ...
Discussion
First 7 Figure .TV Domain Name Sale To Be Reported “Within A Week To A Fortune 500 Company”??
According to a comment left on TheDomains.com on our post about Verisign’s renewal of the .TV contract, the first seven figure domain name is going to be reported to DnJournal.com “within a week” The commentator goes on to say that ...
Discussion
February 26, 2012, 3:31 pm
