A DomainIQ alert yesterday notified me that the Slop.com domain name had changed registrars. The one word .com domain name was transferred from Above.com to Cloudflare. The nameservers were also changed. I suspected the domain name changed hands, but it wasn’t possible to know with certainty based on the info I had.

Nathan Parker, General Manager of the Marketplace and Brokerage at Above.com, confirmed that Slop.com was sold in a deal he brokered. “I am really excited to see what comes of Slop.com. Love a name that makes you do a double take,” he told me. Unfortunately, the sale price of the domain name was unable to be shared.

Atom.com is getting ready to host a site-wide sale billed as “Black Friday in July.” The sale event runs July 21-30, and Atom sellers can opt into the program to participate. Sellers who participate will allow Atom to automatically discount their domain names up to 25% off the purchase price.

In its announcement message, Atom mention the platform has “seen domain sales increase by 30–50% during the sale period” in prior years. I believe buyers who are tracking prices on Atom will be notified when a domain name has a price reduction / discount.

I was looking through the list of auctions on Namecheap this morning, and the number of one word .app domain names caught my attention. From the looks of it, I think these may be expiry auctions, but my confidence level in that observation is not very high and I did not do an exhaustive search.

A handful of the .app domain names that stand out to me based on the number of TLDs registered are:

Human.com has been sold in a deal brokered by Media Options. Andrew Rosener, CEO of Media Options, confirmed that the domain name was sold, telling me both parties are “very happy” with the deal. Andrew was unable to share the sale price of the domain name or comment further about the deal.

In its most recent Annual Report filed with the SEC on August 11, 2025, Mercury Systems reported that it sold the valuable two letter MC.com domain name. On page 33, the report stated the following about the domain name sale (bolded for easy reference):

“Other expense, net was $1.0 million during fiscal 2025, as compared to $7.7 million in fiscal 2024. Fiscal 2025 includes $5.3 million of financing costs, $2.3 million of securities class action expense, and $1.1 million of consulting costs, partially offset by other income primarily related to the gain associated with the sale of manufacturing operations to Cicor Group of $3.3 million and the sale of our mc.com domain name of $2.7 million, as well as $1.7 million of net foreign currency translation gains during fiscal 2025. There was $4.9 million of litigation and settlement costs, $3.4 million of financing costs and $0.4 million of net foreign currency translation losses, partially offset by other income of $1.3 million during fiscal 2024.”