Dynadot released their April 2026 Aftermarket report. The sales data comes in a number of categories. Expired auctions, Last Chance auctions, Backorder auctions, User auctions and Marketplace.

The top sale was from the Expired Auction category. Betzz.com sold for $15,210.88. Second place was a user auction, Personio.ai and it sold for $13,023.61. This name an invented brand name. It was coined by the co-founders of Personio, a major European HR software company based in Munich, Germany. Now did the company come in and bid? They have raised a lot of money guess there was a potential UDRP risk but if they were going to buy the seller could have probably done better than an auction.

Top Sales – Expired Auctions – April 2026

Top Sales – User Auctions – April 2026

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You don’t see a no reserve $1 start auction on a three letter .com at Namepros every day, or every month or year. But they have one running right now. XQO.com.

Starting Price = $1
Registrar = Godaddy
Increments = $250
Bin: No Possible

NO RESERVE – DOMAIN WILL SELL

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Ends 48 hours after last bid.

CRYPTO // PAYPAL // BANK WIRE // ESCROW // ESCROW.DOMAINS

The domain name dropped and was caught at DropCatch in 2024. It closed at $13,345.

The current bid at Namepros is $15,000. Auction link

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May 2026 new gtld domain sales came in at $835,000 vs $759,000 in April . 1282 sales vs 662 sales in the previous month. The last couple of months have showed a big jump in the number of new gtld domain names sold. Now the average price has come down with May coming in around $650.

Spark.finance was the top sale at $70,000. Arcus.xyz was second at $60,000. Top.Domains had two of the top 10 sales in May.

.All sales data courtesy of Namebio

Note: There are many sales that are unreported each month. We cannot comment on the unknown, so we deal with what’s reported to and by reliable sources.

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Top.Domains successfully defended Transfer.Now in a UDRP. He then went on to give his breakdown on why Transfer.now is better than the domain names owned by the entity who tried to get the name via UDRP.

From a branding perspective, Transfer​.now is a much more powerful domain than TransferNow​.net or TransferNow​.com.

Here’s why:

.Now does not equal “now”. While “now” is just a word, .Now is an exciting brand space.

If you own Transfer​.now, you own the premium word “Transfer” in the .Now brand space. That gives the domain an instant premium feel – something two-word .com and .net domains simply cannot replicate. That’s a substantial difference.

Furthermore, while the two-word .com and .net domains effectively allow for only one brand name – “TransferNow” – premium .Now domains usually allow for three brand options: “Transfer​.now”, “Transfer”, and “TransferNow”.

Most of the time, the optimal brand choice for a .Now domain is simply the SLD. For Giant​.now, it’s Giant. For Escape​.now, it’s Escape. For Handsome​.now, it’s Handsome. .Now works as a brand space that elevates the brand, just as .com usually does.

That’s not always the case, though. For Transfer​.now, we would say the strongest brand choice is definitely the domain itself, with the “T” capitalized.

“Transfer​.now” does not equal “TransferNow” – and it is a much stronger brand.

“Transfer​.now” is a premium name inside the .Now brand space. “TransferNow” is a two-word brand.

It also lets “now” stay lower-case, putting the focus exactly where it should be: on “Transfer”.

The right comparison for “Transfer​.now” is not TransferNow​.net or TransferNow​.com. It’s “Transfer​.com”.

We’d argue that “Transfer​.now” is the only “Transfer.” domain and brand that can realistically challenge – and, with the right marketing, surpass – “Transfer​.com” in terms of brand power.

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While having a discussion on X about how Google AI described Sedo and their current place in the market. Reza Sardeha weighed in and said he had proposed a merger but was turned down. It would have been a formidable player in my opinion a very smart combo. The company with the distribution pairing with the far superior tech.

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5.Best posted on X that they sold Rocket.market for $12,000 at Afternic. The 19th highest reported .market sale. Though the second highest by an investor. Rightside sold the first 18 as registry sales. The domain name was registered in 2023.

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Nikul over at Hypernames posted on X that he sold renourish.com for $49,000. The sale took place at Afternic.

Registered in 2000 and according to DotDB.com 29 extensions are registered.

Congrats to Nikul.

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Logan Flatt posted on X that he sold AgenticIntelligence.com for $150,000 at Afternic. Logan had some interesting remarks on his sale. Like whether we have achieved peak AI hype when a 19 letter, 7 syllable name sells for 6 figures with no negotiation.

DotDB shows 38 extensions registered.

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Dynadot released their March 2026 Aftermarket report. The sales data comes in a number of categories. Expired auctions, Last Chance auctions, Backorder auctions, User auctions and Marketplace.

The top sale was from the marketplace, MicrosoftFoundry.com for $20,000. PadelBreaks.com was second at $13,483. Otka.com was the top expired sale at $5,010.

Top Sales – Marketplace – March 2026

Top Sales – Expired Auctions – March 2026

Full report here

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Freename started a new video series called Domain Voices. First up is Jeff Sass from .Art. I have known Jeff for years and he is one of my favorite people in the industry. Jeff discusses branding and why domain names may matter more than they ever have in the past.

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