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Business news that broke early this morning around the bankruptcy of RadioShack may suggest so.

The largest shareholder that is already seeking to purchase hundreds of stores from the retailer, has agreed to a separate sale of the chain’s name...

The most popular discussions this week include a heated debate about domain investors struggling with the decision of using DropCatch due to the competition that it promotes, the excitement behind receiving your first parking payout, investing...

In looking at the past 16 months of new gtld launches, sales, registration numbers, and debates, one wonders what might have been?

Now this article falls under Domain Name fan fiction.

One day a man had a dream and in his dream he read the...

The most popular discussions this week include investing in domain names of the gTLD space after Konstantinos Zournas shared that he previously invested $50,000 in new gTLDs; how to sell domains faster; the SnapNames .Yoga auction, results, and...

If you're in the USA, you'll be spending the weekend celebrating the 4th of July, and if you're not then it's a good time to monitor the auction sites for some bargain domains!

Which brings me nicely on to today's post based around public...

I've reported a couple of times on the domain name We.com, which sold via Sedo earlier this year. Through sources in China, I revealed an approximate sales price of around $8 million with Tencent cited as being the possible new owners.

We.com...

I am one of the many people that regularly monitors the activity of some of the most valuable domain names in existence: two-letter .com domains (Abbr. LL.com's) and two-number .com domains (Abbr. NN.com's). There's recently been an...

Today sees yet another two letter .com domain name change hands.

However, contrary to the recent trend of domain names moving to Chinese investors, this one has gone from China to a company in the Philippines.

The domain name is XA.com and has...

In August of this year, ReviMedia announced the acquisition of the two-letter .COM domain name PX.com from MediaOptions in a transaction worth $1 million in cash, in addition to other considerations. Until yesterday, this remained the highest...

The Christmas holidays are here and naturally, being a domain investor, I can't help but take a look at some of the generic Christmas domain names and how they are currently being used. I’ve picked out five of my favorite .COM domain names that...

In this week's Top Topics, we ask the community which domain name they would buy if they won the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot. The replies were interesting and varied, as you'll see below. The news also broke this week that our very own...

Welcome to this week's Top Topics. "China will block the .COM extension" is a bold prediction from a member in one of NamePros.com's most active discussions this week. Elsewhere, DN.com released some very interesting information regarding triple...

The big news in the domain industry this week was Tesla's acquisition of Tesla.com. After using TeslaMotors.com since 2003, the billion-dollar brand has purchased Tesla.com from a Californian individual. If you missed it, I spoke with the...

BroadbandCloudSolutions.co.uk published a piece about what happens when you purchase a trademarked domain name. Referencing a recent legal dispute where the big brand chain Aldi won against iLoveAldi.co.uk

Yorkshireman Wayne Stephenson hit the...

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In this week's edition Top Topics, there are a couple of discussions about outbound domain sales, with many investors seemingly turning to outbound sales again after riding the wave of the Chinese market. Are you still heavily involved in Chinese...

I was on FaceBook today when I came across a post on James Wester's Timeline asking the following question:

Question: Is it now common practice as a company to focus 99% of your marketing budget on customer acquisition and 1% on customer...

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With the influx of buyers from China acquiring short domain names in many different extensions, we sometimes forget about keywords and new gTLDs. In this week's New Names, we take a look at some of the recent purchases of NamePros members.

This...

After last week's list of famous people who don't own the .COM of their name, I started researching and found so many who seemingly aren't interested in their own online identity.

From my research, it looks as though it may come down to who is...

On Wednesday, we started a brand new Q&A series, in which we ask one question and get a number of experts to respond. Our first question was based around the idea of what type of domain names you should consider buying when you’re starting...

This will be the last Top Topics before Christmas, so if you are celebrating Christmas, then we wish you a happy holiday! NamePros has some interesting articles lined up for publication over the next week or two, so make sure to periodically...

Welcome to the first Top Topics of 2017. This is a bumper edition, covering the most interesting and thought provoking discussions of the past two weeks in the domain name community. We'll start with four topics from last week, followed by four...

In last week's edition of Top Topics, we covered the news of a $10,000 .SHOP domain sale. The domain name was revealed this week Blade.shop and thanks to DomainIQ, we noticed that the name had recently changed WHOIS to show that the...

In case you missed it, we published a list of ten domain names that Mark Cuban owns this week. The article received a lot of positive attention, thanks in no small part to a retweet that Mark sent out to his six million Twitter followers...

In this week's Top Topics, NamePros reaches an incredible milestone and the millionth member introduces themselves. Elsewhere, we discuss the state of the brandable domain market and an investor reveals that they sold a four-letter .COM domain...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at an incident between a domain investor and a former domain owner trying to recover their domain and we share the news of a four-figure .CO domain sale. Elsewhere, a domainer shares their late-night...