Domain Sales

I have a bit more than 100 domain names listed for sale on Atom.com, and a handful are listed on its Ultra Premium Marketplace (UPM). This afternoon, I received an email from Atom informing me that “Domain Talk” was added to Tangy.com, which is one of my UPM-listed domain names.

According to the email I received, Domain Talk is “a quick, spoken take on what makes the name great.” The Domain Talk graphic and play button are located below the fold on the landing page. I presume the Domain Talk feature is different for each domain name, but I only have it on one of my domain names so far.

One of the unique features at Atom.com is the ability to offer an early payoff option to Lease to Own (LTO) buyers. You can offer a discount that amounts to up to 15% of the remaining balance. The buyer can choose to accept the offer and pay this amount to get control of the domain name earlier.

Sellers have one opportunity to offer the early payoff discount to LTO buyers. The seller can choose the dollar amount discount to offer rather than a percentage of the balance. The buyer will then have the opportunity to accept the offer and pay off the balance owed minus to discount or continue to pay the monthly payment as agreed.

Andrew Miller of Hilco Digital has been publishing a weekly update on LinkedIn for the last three years. In his Random Sunday Thoughts posts, he often shares insights and advice for domain name buyers and sellers. Occasionally, he mentions completed deals that may not have been discovered by others.

This morning on X, Yinan Wang shared that he sold two domain names in deals that were overseen and managed by Andrew Miller. First.com and Fancy.com were both sold for undisclosed sums:

Spaceship is looking for people interested in beta testing its new seller hub. Spaceship Founder (and Namecheap CEO) Richard Kirkendall announced this in a post on X this morning:

Just moved a portfolio of about 5000 domains to our seller hub at Spaceship. First offer for 50k just rolled in on pare ai so good to see things working. We are going to start taking some more beta testers with larger portfolios next week. Example of a real negotiation below on a… pic.twitter.com/VZd6XS1Iet

— Richard Kirkendall (@NamecheapCEO) February 19, 2025

Within Rick’s post, you can get a glance at how the back-end of the website looks with a negotiation in progress.