Premium Domains for Sale and Premium Domain Names to Buy Priced on Real Comps
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Sample lots priced against real comps
Filter the lots to see how extension, length and keyword move a price, and press See comps to read the sales behind any number. Names their owners have listed for sale, each with an offer form, are on the seller board.
71 sample lots shown
| Lot | Domain | Category | Type | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | fundingdesk.com | finance | Buy now | $14,500 | See comps |
| 002 | capitalrail.com | finance | Make offer | $9,800 | See comps |
| 003 | lendmarket.com | finance | Buy now | $32,000 | See comps |
| 004 | paylane.io | finance | Auction | $7,400 | See comps |
| 005 | cashledger.com | finance | Make offer | $11,200 | See comps |
| 006 | insurely.co | finance | Buy now | $5,900 | See comps |
| 007 | loanharbor.com | finance | Make offer | $8,600 | See comps |
| 008 | wealthgrid.com | finance | Buy now | $18,500 | See comps |
| 009 | fundflow.io | finance | Auction | $6,200 | See comps |
| 010 | equitypoint.com | finance | Make offer | $24,000 | See comps |
| 011 | voicestack.ai | ai | Make offer | $22,000 | See comps |
| 012 | promptdesk.ai | ai | Buy now | $16,800 | See comps |
| 013 | agentflow.ai | ai | Make offer | $38,000 | See comps |
| 014 | modelyard.ai | ai | Auction | $9,400 | See comps |
| 015 | inferkit.ai | ai | Buy now | $7,800 | See comps |
| 016 | trainset.ai | ai | Make offer | $12,500 | See comps |
| 017 | copilotbase.com | ai | Buy now | $8,900 | See comps |
| 018 | neuralbay.ai | ai | Auction | $14,200 | See comps |
| 019 | visionloop.ai | ai | Make offer | $11,600 | See comps |
| 020 | swiftparcel.com | ecommerce | Auction | $6,800 | See comps |
| 021 | cartpilot.com | ecommerce | Buy now | $9,200 | See comps |
| 022 | shopanchor.com | ecommerce | Make offer | $7,600 | See comps |
| 023 | orderlane.com | ecommerce | Buy now | $5,400 | See comps |
| 024 | stockroom.io | ecommerce | Auction | $8,800 | See comps |
| 025 | retailbeam.com | ecommerce | Make offer | $4,900 | See comps |
| 026 | checkoutbar.com | ecommerce | Buy now | $6,300 | See comps |
| 027 | roamledger.com | travel | Make offer | $3,800 | See comps |
| 028 | tripanchor.com | travel | Buy now | $5,200 | See comps |
| 029 | farescout.com | travel | Auction | $7,100 | See comps |
| 030 | stayfinder.io | travel | Buy now | $4,600 | See comps |
| 031 | voyagely.com | travel | Make offer | $6,900 | See comps |
| 032 | transitmap.co | travel | Buy now | $3,400 | See comps |
| 033 | carehatch.com | health | Make offer | $5,800 | See comps |
| 034 | medledger.com | health | Buy now | $12,800 | See comps |
| 035 | vitalpath.io | health | Auction | $6,400 | See comps |
| 036 | clinicbay.com | health | Make offer | $8,200 | See comps |
| 037 | wellnest.co | health | Buy now | $7,300 | See comps |
| 038 | healthrail.com | health | Make offer | $9,600 | See comps |
| 039 | briefdesk.com | legal | Buy now | $8,400 | See comps |
| 040 | casedocket.com | legal | Make offer | $11,400 | See comps |
| 041 | lawlane.com | legal | Buy now | $15,600 | See comps |
| 042 | counselbay.com | legal | Auction | $7,900 | See comps |
| 043 | claimsheet.com | legal | Make offer | $6,100 | See comps |
| 044 | deedvault.com | real estate | Buy now | $9,700 | See comps |
| 045 | rentledger.com | real estate | Make offer | $13,200 | See comps |
| 046 | plotmarket.com | real estate | Auction | $8,500 | See comps |
| 047 | homedocket.com | real estate | Buy now | $5,600 | See comps |
| 048 | brokerbay.io | real estate | Make offer | $7,700 | See comps |
| 049 | gridvolt.com | energy | Buy now | $10,800 | See comps |
| 050 | solarledger.com | energy | Make offer | $8,300 | See comps |
| 051 | wattmarket.com | energy | Auction | $12,100 | See comps |
| 052 | chargelane.com | energy | Buy now | $6,600 | See comps |
| 053 | voltbay.io | energy | Make offer | $4,800 | See comps |
| 054 | payform.com | finance | Make offer | $185,000 | See comps |
| 055 | vaultic.com | brandable | Make offer | $120,000 | See comps |
| 056 | medix.ai | health | Make offer | $150,000 | See comps |
| 057 | lendora.com | finance | Buy now | $88,000 | See comps |
| 058 | brandable.io | brandable | Auction | $64,000 | See comps |
| 059 | zentro.com | brandable | Make offer | $42,000 | See comps |
| 060 | quivio.com | brandable | Buy now | $18,900 | See comps |
| 061 | lumary.com | brandable | Make offer | $27,500 | See comps |
| 062 | orbiko.com | brandable | Auction | $12,400 | See comps |
| 063 | velano.com | brandable | Buy now | $31,000 | See comps |
| 064 | nuvra.com | brandable | Make offer | $15,800 | See comps |
| 065 | stackport.com | tech | Buy now | $9,100 | See comps |
| 066 | devharbor.com | tech | Make offer | $7,500 | See comps |
| 067 | apiledger.com | tech | Auction | $6,700 | See comps |
| 068 | cloudquay.com | tech | Buy now | $11,900 | See comps |
| 069 | datawharf.com | tech | Make offer | $8,700 | See comps |
| 070 | bitforge.io | tech | Auction | $5,300 | See comps |
| 071 | kernelbay.com | tech | Buy now | $4,700 | See comps |
Sample lots that show how names are priced against comps. Names listed by their owners are on the seller board.
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Every listing includes an appraisal with comps. Buying closes through reputable third-party escrow; see how domain escrow works. Want a name that is not on this board? A domain acquisition service approaches the current owner for you.
The short answer
Premium domains for sale are hand-picked aftermarket names that already carry value before a site exists on them: short, memorable, keyword-strong, or all three. On the board above, every name is priced against real sold comps and available three ways: buy now at a fixed price, make a comps-backed offer, or bid in a live auction. Each purchase closes through third-party escrow, so the name transfers only after funds are confirmed. If you are budgeting, our guide to how much a premium domain costs sets out the real 2026 price tiers and the registry-premium renewal trap. For invented startup names rather than keyword names, see brandable domain names for sale. If you own names instead of buying them, see where to sell domain names and compare venues on commission and reach, or go straight to sell premium domain names for the net-proceeds math on a five-figure close.
Price bands checked against sold comparables from the last 24 months
What premium domains cost, by tier
The question behind almost every first email is what band a name sits in. These are the ranges aftermarket names actually trade in, not asking prices. Asking prices run well above them, and the gap is the negotiation. Above the top tier sits a much thinner market that almost nobody transacts in: the most expensive domain names ever sold run from seven figures to the $70 million paid for AI.com, and they are a poor guide to anything you are likely to buy.
| Tier | Typical sold range | What it looks like | Who buys at this level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry aftermarket | $500 to $2,500 | Two-word .com, decent .co and .io, longer brandables | Bootstrapped founders and side projects that want better than a hyphenated name |
| Solid brandable | $2,500 to $10,000 | Short invented .com, clean two-word .ai, pronounceable five to seven letters | Seed-stage companies naming a product they intend to keep |
| Category name | $10,000 to $50,000 | One-word .com in a niche, strong single-word .ai, four-letter .com | Funded startups and established businesses running a rebrand |
| Category-defining | $50,000 to $500,000 | Common one-word .com, three-letter .com, the obvious .ai for a whole sector | Companies where the name is a competitive moat rather than a label |
| Trophy | Above $1,000,000 | Dictionary one-word .com with mass consumer meaning | Rare, and almost always brokered rather than listed |
Two costs sit outside the purchase price and catch people out. Escrow runs about 2.6% under $5,000 and 2.4% up to $50,000, with minimums of $50 and $130. And a registry-premium extension can carry a raised renewal for as long as you own the name, which is worth checking before you commit (how to tell the two apart in a GoDaddy cart is in our GoDaddy premium domain price guide). The full breakdown is in how much a premium domain costs, and you can sanity-check any specific name against real domain sales history.
What makes a domain premium
A premium domain is a name that already carries value before a website exists on it: short, memorable, keyword-strong, or all three. The board above is curated on exactly those signals, the same four our domain appraisal tool measures. If a name made the board, the data made the case.
Aftermarket domains, three ways to buy
A fixed price the seller commits to. Click, escrow opens, the name is yours in days. Fixed prices differ sharply by venue, as our HugeDomains review shows.
Open a negotiation with a comps-backed number. Most offers get a response within days.
A live countdown and an open floor. Watch the domain auctions board for names ending soon.
Buying your first aftermarket name?
Start with how to buy a premium domain for the full path from offer to transfer, and if you're hunting bargains, learn how expired domains re-enter the market. Serious about a specific name someone else owns? Our domain broker service makes discreet acquisition approaches on your behalf. Building for a developer or SaaS audience instead? The short technical names sit on the .io domains for sale board.
Fixed supply
Short domain names for sale in 3 letter and 4 letter .com
Short domain names are the one category where supply is a number you can calculate. There are 676 two letter .com domains, 17,576 three letter and 456,976 four letter, counting letters only. Every two and three letter combination is registered, and the four letter space has been reported full since around 2015, so every short .com purchase is an aftermarket deal priced by negotiation. Length sets the floor. Meaning sets the price.
| Length | Letters only | Letters and digits | Left to register in .com | What that does to price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 character | 26 | 36 | None. Only x.com, q.com and z.com exist privately; the rest have been reserved since 1 December 1993 | Not a market. These change hands with companies |
| 2 characters | 676 | 1,296 | None. Fully registered | The smallest pool and the highest price per character |
| 3 characters | 17,576 | 46,656 | None. Fully registered | Recognized acronyms command multiples of awkward consonant strings |
| 4 characters | 456,976 | 1,679,616 | None reported since around 2015 | The first length with real words, and where most practical buying happens |
| 5 characters | 11,881,376 | 60,466,176 | Some, mostly unpronounceable strings | Scarcity stops doing the work; the name has to earn its price on meaning |
Counts are 26 or 36 raised to the length, hyphens excluded. The single letter reservation is the IANA action of 1 December 1993. Registration saturation is as widely reported across the aftermarket, not audited.
What short domain names have actually sold for
Publicly reported cash sales of pure domains, with deals that bundled a website or equity left out. The top rows are the ceiling, not a benchmark. The last two rows, both from 2026, are the useful reality check: two and four characters, and six figures rather than eight.
| Domain | Length | Price | Year | Why it cleared that number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI.com | 2 | $70,000,000 | 2025 | Two letters that name an entire industry, sold as that industry peaked |
| 360.com | 3 | $17,000,000 | 2015 | Three digits matching the buyer's existing brand exactly |
| Chat.com | 4 | $15,500,000 | 2023 | A four letter dictionary word describing the product category |
| Icon.com | 4 | $12,000,000 | 2025 | A short real word with no industry ties, so almost any buyer could use it |
| FB.com | 2 | $8,500,000 | 2010 | The exact initials of the buyer, the classic two letter use case |
| Z.com | 1 | $6,800,000 | 2014 | One of only three single letter .com names in private hands |
| H2.com | 2 | $240,000 | 2026 | Even two characters clear six figures rather than eight when the string is narrow |
| GoAI.com | 4 | $215,000 | 2026 | A recent, more typical four letter result |
Compiled from publicly reported sales including DNJournal's record of account. Only an estimated 5 to 10 percent of retail sales are ever reported, so published data is biased toward high prices.
What separates a $3,000 short name from a $300,000 one
Pronounceability
Four letters a person can say after hearing them once can carry a brand. Four that must be spelled every time cannot. This explains more of the spread within a length than anything else.
Whether it is a word
Chat, Icon and Gold are short because English happens to be short there. A real word brings recognition the buyer does not have to buy with advertising.
Acronym demand
A three letter string is worth what the companies already using those initials will pay. Common company initials carry deep buyer pools; random strings have almost none.
Letter quality
Investors have long discounted q, x and z and vowel patterns that make a string unsayable. The convention is rough, but it moves offers.
The extension
Short plus .com is what commands the premium. The same three letters in a newer extension sell for a fraction, because the buyer pool narrows.
Who is asking
An operating company buying its own initials pays retail. An investor buying inventory pays roughly 40 to 60 percent of it. The same name honestly has both prices.
Where to buy short domain names, and what each route costs you
The route depends on one fact: whether the owner has already put the name up for sale. If they have, you are shopping. If not, you are negotiating, and the costs look completely different.
| Route | Use it when | What it costs the buyer | Trade off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketplace listing | The owner has listed the name with a price or an offer form | Usually nothing directly; commission is charged to the seller | You pay a retail asking price set without knowing you |
| Direct approach | The name resolves to a live site or nothing, with no for sale page | Your time, plus the risk of anchoring the price by revealing who you are | Cheapest in fees, weakest in leverage if the owner identifies you |
| Buyer side broker | A five or six figure target where anonymity matters | GoDaddy's service charges $99.99 per domain upfront, non-refundable, plus 20 percent | Real leverage, paid for whether or not the deal closes |
| Expiry auction | The current owner has stopped renewing | The winning bid plus one year of renewal | Cheapest entry point, entirely outside your control or timing |
| Backorder or drop catch | A short name is heading for deletion | Reported around $59 to $60 at DropCatch and $79 at SnapNames, charged only on a catch | Nothing if you miss, but short names attract competing backorders |
| Payment plan or lease to own | The name is right but the cash is not there at once | Reported buyer service fees of 0 to 30 percent depending on term | The name stays locked until the last payment clears |
Third party fees are as published or as reported by industry press and change without notice, so verify at the point of purchase. If the short name you want has no for sale page, buying a taken domain name covers the approach; if it is heading for deletion, expired domains and lease to own domains cover timing and payment plans. One honest caveat from a marketplace that earns on these sales: a memorable five or six letter brandable domain will often serve a young company better than four random letters at $80,000.
Closed market
One word domains for sale and what single word domains cost
A one word domain is a single dictionary or invented word with no hyphen, number or second word, and in .com it is effectively a closed market. When one developer checked a 74,585 word American English list against .com availability in March 2023, only 1,206 words were still registrable, about 1.6 percent, and those were the obscure ones. That leaves three real routes: a coined single word, a real dictionary word bought from its owner, or the word in .io, .co or .ai.
How many one word .com domains are actually left
Databases advertise millions of available one word domains. Here is what each published number really counts, so you can check it before paying anyone for a list.
| Published number | Figure | Source and date | What it actually counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary words still registrable in .com | 1,206 of 74,585 | Public availability check against the Ubuntu american-english word list, 9 March 2023 | 1.6 percent. The real ceiling on new one word .com inventory |
| "Available and brandable one-word domains" | 1,381,826 | OneWord.Domains homepage, read September 2026 | Not .com names. Roughly 50 extensions per word |
| English words in that database | 27,625 | OneWord.Domains homepage, read September 2026 | The actual vocabulary on offer, smaller than the dictionary list above |
| Extensions that database spans | 93 | OneWord.Domains homepage, read September 2026 | Where the million comes from. The .com column inside it is the thin one |
What a one word domain costs by type of word
Working bands drawn from publicly reported aftermarket sales, not a price list. In the two weeks to 23 August 2026, DNJournal reported Stan.com at $750,000, Zano.com at $500,000, Joiner.com at $210,000, Car.co at $90,000 and Trade.io at $75,000, which is the real shape of the market below the record list.
| Type of one word name | Typical reported range | Usually listed? | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coined word, .com | $2,000 to $30,000 | Yes, fixed price | Length, how easily it is spelled from hearing it, whether it suggests a sector |
| Dictionary word, no commercial sector, .com | $10,000 to $75,000 | Sometimes | Syllable count, how common the word is in speech, whether it works as a verb |
| Dictionary word owning a category, .com | $100,000 upward | Rarely | How much revenue the category moves and whether a funded company is rebranding into it |
| Any single word, .io or .co | Commonly a tenth of the .com | Often | Whether the sector reads the extension as normal |
| Any single word, .ai | Rising, tracks .com more closely than .io | Often | Whether the word reads as a product category in machine learning |
The three routes to a one word domain, and who each one suits
Route 01
A coined single word in .com
An invented word built to be short, sayable and spellable, the way Uber and Zillow started. The only part of this market with new supply. Expect four to low five figures and an instant purchase. Best for a company naming itself now.
Route 02
A real dictionary word in .com
The category that sets the records, usually held for years and often not listed anywhere. Prices start in the mid five figures. It is an acquisition: value the word, approach the owner, negotiate, close through escrow.
Route 03
The same word in .io, .co or .ai
Often a tenth of the .com price. The cost is leakage: some visitors and email go to the .com, and if you succeed you may buy the .com later at a price your own success raised.
Route two is where money gets wasted, because buyers treat it like shopping. A dictionary .com owner has almost no carrying cost and no deadline, so your only leverage is a defensible number. Run the word through the domain appraisal tool first, and if it is not listed, a domain acquisition service handles the approach without naming you.
Questions buyers ask about premium domains
What is a premium domain name?
A premium domain is an aftermarket name that already carries value before any website exists on it, because it is short, memorable, keyword-strong, or all three. It is owned by someone rather than available to register, so buying one means a marketplace purchase, an auction bid or a negotiated deal with the current owner. Price is set by comparable sold names, not by a registration fee.
How much do premium domains cost?
Most premium domains that change hands on marketplaces sell in the mid three figures to low five figures. Short and one-word .com names and category-defining .ai names run far higher, into six and seven figures, and where to buy short domain names above compares where those names are actually listed and what they ask. The realistic way to price any specific name is to look at three to five sold comparables of the same extension, length and structure from the last 24 months, which is what domain sales history research gives you. A free automated estimate is a screening step, not a price: sellers often quote one back to you, so check how accurate GoDaddy domain appraisal is before you let its number anchor your offer.
Are premium domains worth the money?
For a funded business, usually yes, because the name is a permanent asset that shortens every later marketing conversation and cannot be replicated by competitors. For a pre-revenue side project, usually no. The test is whether the name saves more in recall, trust and ad efficiency than it costs, over the years you will hold it. If the name is right and only the cash is missing, a domain lease or lease to own payment plan spreads it across months, at an effective cost of money near 9 to 12 percent a year.
How do I buy a premium domain safely?
Close through third-party escrow so the transfer and the payment release together, never by direct wire to a seller you do not know. Confirm the seller controls the name at its registrar before funding, agree who covers transfer costs in advance, and keep the negotiation in writing. On any four-figure or larger purchase, escrow is the single control that matters.
What is the difference between a premium domain and an expired domain?
A premium domain is being actively sold by an owner who values it, priced against comparable sales. An expired domain is one whose registration lapsed and is being released back to the market, usually bought at auction or by drop-catch backorder. Expired names can be far cheaper, but they carry history you have to check, including backlink quality and any prior trademark use.
Where can I buy premium domain names?
Curated marketplaces, the large aftermarket networks such as Afternic and Sedo, live auctions, and direct approaches to owners of unlisted names. Curated boards carry fewer names but every one has been reviewed and priced against comps. The large networks carry far more inventory with far more noise. If the exact name you want is not listed anywhere, a domain acquisition service is the remaining route (the costs and steps of buying a domain that is already taken are laid out separately, including how to buy a domain anonymously so the owner never learns who is asking), and where to sell domain names compares the same venues from the seller's side. For a buyer-side ranking of the same venues on price negotiability and who holds the name during the deal, see the best place to buy a premium domain name. If the name you are after is a single dictionary word, one word domain names above covers why almost none of that category ever reaches a listing, and what the ones that do actually cost. If you are buying to resell rather than to use, premium domain flipping works through what each venue keeps on the way back out.
Can you negotiate the price of a premium domain?
Usually yes, even on a buy-now price. Most sellers accept somewhere between 10% and 25% under a published asking price, and more where the name has sat unsold for a long time. The move that works is a specific offer supported by two or three comparable sales, not a low anchor with no reasoning behind it. Silence and a deadline both weaken your position.
Do premium domains cost more to renew every year?
Sometimes, and this is the trap. A name bought on the aftermarket usually renews at the ordinary registrar rate. But a registry-premium name, where the registry itself flagged the string as valuable, carries a raised renewal for as long as you own it, which can run to hundreds of dollars a year. Check the renewal price at the registrar before you agree a purchase price, never after.
How many 3 letter domains are there?
There are exactly 17,576 three letter .com domains built from letters alone, which is 26 to the power of 3. Allowing digits as well raises the total to 46,656. Every one of the pure letter combinations is registered and has been for years, so the only way to get one is to buy it from its current owner.
Are 4 letter domains still available?
Not in .com. The four letter .com space has been reported fully registered since around 2015, so nothing is left to register at a registrar. Unregistered four letter names do still appear in newer extensions, and four letter .com names reach the market constantly through the aftermarket and expiry auctions.
Where can I buy short domain names?
Because none are available to register, every purchase happens on the aftermarket: a marketplace listing, a direct approach to the current owner, a broker for larger names, or an expiry auction when an owner stops renewing. Which route is cheapest depends entirely on whether the owner has already listed the name.
Are one word domains still available?
Almost none are available in .com. An independent check of 74,585 American English dictionary words in March 2023 found 1,206 still registrable as .com, about 1.6 percent, and those are the obscure words nobody wants for a business. Every commercially useful single word .com was registered decades ago, so buying one means buying it from its current owner.
How much does a one word domain cost?
A coined single word .com such as an invented brand name commonly trades in the low five figures. A real dictionary word in .com with commercial meaning usually starts in the mid five figures and runs into seven. Reported sales in August 2026 included Stan.com at $750,000 and Joiner.com at $210,000. The same word in .io or .co typically costs a fraction of the .com.
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