Services
What we handle, and how.
One name or a whole portfolio, buying or selling — the sequence is the same and you approve each step of it.
01 Someone already owns it
Buying a domain
Every short, sayable domain was registered years ago. Most owners are not advertising a price and a great many of them would sell — but an approach from the business that obviously needs the name is the most expensive way to ask. We make the approach instead, which keeps your interest out of it and the opening number honest.
What is included
- The registrant traced through registrar records, archived WHOIS and the site's own history
- A first approach naming no buyer, so the price is not set by who is asking
- A ceiling agreed with you in writing before a single offer goes out
- Negotiation in rounds, with every counter reported back before it is answered
- Payment held in escrow until the name is confirmed in your account
02 Names sitting in your account
Selling a domain
A domain only reaches its value in front of somebody who needs it. Listing it and waiting is one route; the quicker one is a shortlist of businesses whose brand, product or existing traffic already points at the name, approached directly. Both can run at the same time.
What is included
- An asking price built from comparable sales rather than from what you paid
- A shortlist of buyers the name genuinely suits, approached by us
- A listing on the marketplaces buyers already search, where that helps
- Offers screened, so only a serious one reaches you
- Funds confirmed in escrow before the name leaves your account
03 A number you can argue from
Valuation
Valuing a domain is not a formula, whatever an instant appraisal tool suggests. Length, the extension, whether anyone is searching the words, how it survives being read out over a phone, and above all what comparable names have genuinely changed hands for. You get a range, the reasoning, and the sales it is measured against.
What is included
- Comparable sales drawn from public transaction records
- Extension, length and spelling weighed against what buyers actually pay for
- Search demand and existing traffic, where there is any to measure
- Trademark conflicts flagged before they turn expensive
- A written range with the reasoning attached, not one confident number
04 Getting the name and the money to change places
Transfer & escrow
A domain sale is two strangers each being asked to go first. Escrow settles that: the buyer's money sits with a third party, the name moves, and only then is the seller paid. We run the sequence, chase the registrar when it stalls, and confirm the name is where it should be before anything is released.
What is included
- Funds held by an escrow service or the marketplace, never by us
- The authorisation code issued and the registrar lock lifted in the right order
- An account-to-account push at the same registrar where that avoids a transfer wait
- ICANN's 60-day transfer lock explained before it surprises anyone
- Written confirmation the name is live in the new account before funds release
Always the same order
A single domain or fifty, the steps do not change.
Whether it is one name you cannot do without or a portfolio being wound down: the same four steps, and the same approvals along the way.
You tell us the name
The domain you are after, or the one you are holding, and what it is for. You get a straight answer on whether it is worth pursuing at all.
You get a valuation and a plan
What the name is likely worth, how the approach will be made, and what we charge — agreed in writing.
We negotiate
Approach, counter, counter again. Everything on the table comes back to you before it is answered, and the ceiling you set is the ceiling.
Escrow, then transfer
Funds lodged with a third party, the authorisation code released, and the domain confirmed in its new account before anyone is paid.
Holding a name you want to move, or chasing one that is already taken?
Tell us the domain and what it is for. You get a straight read on what it is worth and what it would take to move it — and asking costs nothing.