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Domain valuation and research in the age of AI

Joined April 2026
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Dug into the data. It depends where the brand is from. Japan: 70% of dot-brands have a working site. US: 18%. What's interesting is that most of Japan’s run on one company, @gmoregistry. And this is probably, why they applied for a lot more, while other countries applied for less. namedesk.app/insights/dot-br…
A third of the extensions are a brand only application, and another third have at least one brand application. Which is crazy given brand TLDs died at 20x rate vs non brand.
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Tick.com: SOLD.
$600,000 + buyer-side brokerage commission. @DefiningCom represented the sellers—leading negotiations, protecting their interests and overcoming major obstacles in a complex transaction. We then managed the transfer and closing, coordinating directly with the buyer and sellers. Getting an offer is one thing. Getting it CLOSED is another.
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DNS lookups have doubled in the last 2 years. The number of domains grew 14%. However, lookups for domains like .com, .xyz, .app went from 390 Billion a day to 856 billion a day. Verisign's CEO: "a good portion of that is due to AI."
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Yesterday saw $570k in domain name sales, including: $26,000 Shawarma․com $14,188 Stereo․si $12,984 NP7․com $10,000 T-Works․com $8,888 Yiersan․com $8,650 Mountain․io $4,988 O2C․ai $4,988 MEFI․ai $4,888 Planner․si $4,649 NexxAI․com $4,477 BetterStudio․com $4,400 Blot․bot $4,161 Maverick․co $3,950 Groll․com $2,980 Oyster․net $2,800 Skillora․com $2,499 Grobz․com $2,484 Truly․co $2,299 Plisto․com $2,240 Driverlytics․com 📊 Top 100 Sales: namebio.com/daily Repeat sales + charts in reply 👇
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I have noticed recently the appraisals tools have just bumped up values on certain names but still miss the mark on day to day names. This is *not* how @namedesk works. It looks for real signals that matter.
Looks like the new GD Appraisal algorithm has filtered through to the Domain Academy Bulk valuation tool, so I assessed my AI domains. It likes short 3L and 4L , plus dictionary words, of course. Not so keen on two word combinations, even when they make sense. Except for SoftwareTeam. ai which is likes. What do you think ? Did you notice this yet @Castello_Bros I think it's an improvement on the previous algorithm, but a bit more work to be done recognising great two word combos.
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Modern domain appraisals are still failing. Atom/GoDaddy have done great work in improving appraisals. However, they still miss the mark in the age of AI. This is the whole point of @namedesk
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I have been updating the UI for the ICANN TLD applications on @namedesk It's now easier to find other people applying and research their information.
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The traffic on @namedesk has exploded since I started tracking TLDs, certificate transparency logs etc. What am I missing? What would you like to see?
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Great sale!
Afternic has removed comparable sales. If you log in now and check any of your listed domains, you won’t find the comparable sales anymore. Why? @afternic
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I am trialing a new appraisal UI. If anyone wants a preview let me know!
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It seems @namedesk appraisal punishes clarity .com due to collision and confusion amongst AI models. Great sale!
Looks like Clarity.com sold for $3.5m! Love seeing founders who understand the value of domains 🔥 @DInvesting @DomainNameWire @DNJournal
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why .asi but not .agi @voraanand @namecheapceo123
While everyone is talking about .si, @OpenAI is playing the long game. They applied for 15 TLDs in this round, including .asi and .agi. It will be interesting to see who adopts those extensions, given the current intelligence arms race. Are you backing either of those on @D3inc Frontier?
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You can see TLD stats on @namedesk Try putting your favorite name, registrar, registry or TLD in the search bar!
According to Domain Name Stat, GoDaddy and Amazon are the laziest students in the .now class of 30,000+ domains... #Domains #DomainNames #nowTLD #DomainStats
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Registrar, Registries and TLD pages have also been updated!
You can now see applicants, and how many names they already operate on @namedesk . For example, here is .agent. ID already operates 14M names!
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You can now see links to existing registries on @namedesk on the new ICANN gTLD applications. On the registries page, you can see other extensions they already run, and domain stats Example: namedesk.app/tlds/applicants…
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You can now see related entities on @namedesk Example: namedesk.app/tlds/applicants… I have tried to merge shell companies when they truly have a legal parent company. For the rest there are now notes.
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