Congrats and thanks for sharing! 🥳 That's the highest publicly-reported .dev sale of all time by a BIG margin.

Sold: ChatAI.org Congratulations to buyer. Thanks to @Afternic & Ex-Owner: @aarons_takes Hold time 2 months Acquired for $932.

InsuranceCX.com 7.2 ★★★☆ Clear and highly relevant for insurance technology, customer experience (CX) platforms, or SaaS solutions in insurance. Short, descriptive, and authoritative. Slightly long but very functional for enterprise buyers. Strong B2B appeal. YellowPages.one 5.8 ★★☆ Descriptive and recognizable concept, but the .one extension significantly limits perceived value. Works mostly for niche directory projects or experimental web apps; low brand and resale potential. Agenti.ng 7.3 ★★★☆ Clever use of country-code domain (Nigeria) to spell “Agenting” or “Agenti.ng”. Short, memorable, and brandable for AI agents, sales automation, or software agent platforms. Limited by ccTLD in general market adoption but creative and tech-oriented.

C'mon, let's see your favorite new domain names! I'll rate them out of 10. Scoring rules: 10/10 = ★★★★★ 9/10 = ★★★★☆ 8/10 = ★★★★ 7/10 = ★★★☆ 6/10 = ★★★ 5/10 = ★★☆ 4/10 = ★★ 3/10 = ★☆ 2/10 = ★ 1/10 = ☆ Dare to share? Just for fun!

clearbrain .com just ended at $2,950 in the GoDaddy auction. The auto bidder won it. Was planning to go up to $2k after @synozeer flipped MindMesh .com ($10.5k → $150k). Potentially an actual end user bidding, so I passed. Prefer liquidity from stocks right now.

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You're not too late. You're just not paying attention.

NEO.ai sold for $275k gross ($250k net)

The Domain Hoarding Myth The Internet Is Far Less "Taken" Than People Think... There's a belief in the domain industry that investors have hoarded everything and prices are somehow inflated because of it. After digging through zone files and then comparing that against what is actually available in marketplaces, I've started seeing the opposite problem. Domain investors do not own most domains. In major TLDs, ownership likely sits in the low single digits 1-2%. In emerging extensions, even less.. The overwhelming majority of domains are sitting with founders who never built, businesses holding defensive registrations, forgotten projects, and passive owners who were never part of the aftermarket..People whose domains are on auto-renew and an yearly 10$ charge makes no difference. Which creates an interesting question.. If millions of domains exist, why does marketplace supply feel so thin? Start narrowing by actual buyer intent instead of looking at the entire namespace. Pick a commercial keyword. Filter marketplaces. Suddenly the numbers collapse. What looked like an endless universe becomes a few hundred listings...Filter again for names that are actually clean, brandable, commercially usable, and not awkward junk, and the number drops even further. That's when something becomes obvious. Buyers may actually be getting incredible deals... Because the pricing psychology in domaining has become distorted. Too many investors price relative to what other investors are asking, instead of pricing relative to real-world scarcity. If the actual liquid supply for a meaningful keyword set is tiny, why are some genuinely usable names priced like there is endless competition? There isn’t.. The market has created this illusion of abundance because investors are highly visible and marketplaces feel crowded when viewed broadly. But zoom in by intent, by category, by usability, and supply starts looking shockingly thin. That changes the pricing conversation completely. A buyer looking at a $3,000 or $7,000 domain may think they are being asked to overpay.. But if there are only a handful of serious alternatives in the open market, that pricing may actually be extremely favorable.. Possibly even underpriced. The uncomfortable thought here is that domain investors may be collectively leaving money on the table. Not because domains lack value. But because too much pricing is anchored to investor-to-investor expectations, liquidation psychology, and a market that has normalized below-average asks. When you compare asking prices against actual liquid supply instead of theoretical registration counts, some deals start looking absurdly cheap. The internet is full of registered domains. The aftermarket is not full of quality supply. Those are two completely different realities. And the gap between them may be where the biggest pricing mistake in domaining exists today..

We analyzed root words across domain sales on Atom to see which naming trends saw the biggest % increase in 2026 vs 2025. Some notable shifts: - "agent" surged - modern software-native roots like "volt", "flow", and "labs" gained traction - trust, bet, and health-oriented terms climbed as well - entirely new roots like "claw" emerged from near-zero activity, though that one may be more of a temporary spike than a lasting trend Startup naming is becoming more action-oriented and AI-native.

most people think about domains when they're launching something. it's time to think about them before anyone else was paying attention. timing is everything.