Buying domains on OpenSea is painful, the UI is clunky and fraud is rampant. I have built
@enstools
to quickly search all available, dropping, and expired
@ensdomains
and help filter out the noise.
Drop your .ETH in the comments for early access!
Soon 👉🏽
🚀 Very excited to announce is live! Search expired names and OpenSea listings with powerful filters that help you discover undervalued gems. In this screenshot I am looking at some of the cheapest short dictionary words available on OpenSea.
I helped a friend acquire the ultra-premium domain for $75,000. It is temporarily parked at
@Domain_io
. Big congrats to the buyer, can you guess who? 👀
☺️ I'm so proud of what we've built at
It uses an off-chain ENS -> L2 (OP) bridge, enabling wallet naming on day one.
*.HNS domains can be resolved using *.HNS.ID. They can be used in MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, and any dapp that supports ENS w/CCIP. 🧵
The ENS protocol made ~$300,000 yesterday on 7,200 primary registrations, the best single day ever. ALL of this money goes to the
@ENS_DAO
, where protocol upgrades and budget proposals are voted on transparently by token holders. This is why
@ENSDOMAINS
are for the people. 😍
This might surprise some people (!!)
I'm excited to join the team at Namebase and
@Spaceship
to help build fully decentralized domains on top of Handshake TLDs, with a focus on DNS resolution and adoption. I think Richard has the vision to make this happen and it's gonna be fun.
🔥 Very excited to finally share this! I'm building , a better way to manage your domain portfolio.
⚡️ Quickly list your domains at top marketplaces
🙅♂️ No more juggling nameservers and TXT records
💰 Accurate renewal costs across all registrars
Just sold Operator•io for $11,750 (3.5Ξ). My first sale on
@Squadhelp
. The commission is brutal but I knew that going in. It had a really terrible logo because I gave up after like 12 revisions. 😂
Unfortunately I was laid off from
@GoDaddy
today. I was the dev in charge of
@Afternic
search and the DAN Integrator API.
After extensive A/B testing it was determined that removing the search from Afternic resulted in 0.02% more shared hosting sales at GoDaddy․com.
For DAN
I grabbed 14 more 3 letter ENS names, some of which were expiring in the next week or so. I extended those another 6 months. My avg. acquisition cost (including renewals) is less than original 0.20E mint. There's a lot of expiring names right now and prices are dropping fast.
How does Afternic Fast Transfer actually work?
When I first started buying domains, the Fast Transfer process seemed a bit magical, like something that
@GoDaddy
must have conjured behind closed doors at an ICANN convention in Prague circa 1998. In reality, GoDaddy only purchased
I'm looking for a new home for , I've got too many projects and not enough time. Good opportunity for someone who can market it better and continue adding value. DM me if you an interested buyer. Prefer to do transaction through .
✨ now includes live and aggregated listings from ALL 10 of the top ENS marketplaces. The best available price is always shown, and you can filter by marketplace. Big thanks to
@reservoir0x
for providing such a fantastic platform to build on. 😘
Reality Check: Tokenization of Web2 domains does not solve domain transfers (yet)
I've been watching the rise of web2 tokenization with interest, looking closely for opportunities. There are at least 5 companies entering this space (
@3dns_inc
,
@namefi_io
,
@liquid_domains
,
Today is my last day at
@NamebaseHQ
. 🫡
I am proud of what we have accomplished and the way our team pulled together, despite some trying times. Namebase and
@HNS_ID
are in capable hands and will continue to thrive. 💪
Woweee! We’re gonna need a bigger whitelist. I just wanna say coming from DNS domains it is wild to me that I could build this without any special access. The only lil’ hurdle was OpenSea’s API and I found dozens of exposed keys on Github. 🤫
@ensdomains
is for the people.
📣 is nearly ready(!!). Here's my little portfolio of ~300 domains and you can see just how badly I have managed my aftermarket listings. So many are unlisted or have pricing discrepancies across
@Afternic
,
@Sedo
, and
@Undeveloped
. 👉
💼 Public Portfolios are now live at
@domain_io
. You can browse my humble domain collection to see it in action (link in bio). It has a built-in form to message the seller, or link your favorite messenger platform, e.g. Telegram/Whatsapp/Skype. I love working on this site. 🥰
Well I think that's a record for me. Bought a wholesale .IO domain for $115 on
@DNWE_com
, parked it on
@domainholder_io
for 5 days, sold it for $1,000. 🍻
This commercial is effectively selling both pretzels and premium domains. The pitch:
“You think they’d give just *anyone* that domain? No, they wouldn’t.”
The ad ends with the tagline:
“So good, we earned the name.”
🚀 I am excited to announce that is now open to everyone! I received lots of positive feedback during the beta and look forward to shipping even more innovative features to make
@domain_io
the best platform to manage all your domains.
Free 30-day trial 👉
🤑 Leads Dashboard is live on
@domain_io
- all inquiries now require email verification
- unverified offers can still be seen in app
- you can archive inquiries to clean slate
Sneak peek at the Public Portfolio feature launching next week for
@domain_io
. I have missed this, I used to enjoy curating my portfolio and using it to make deals. You can control what domains are shown and customize a bunch of options like the contact buttons and theme color.
ENS just raised the initial price to register an expired domain name to $100,000,000 (!). That premium rapidly decreases over 30 days to zero. With this one weird trick they have ensured there will never be a parasitic drop catching industry like the one that exists under
@ICANN
.
Some recent .iO sales:
Callable:io - $5850
Likes:io - $4500
SocialKit:io - $750
Nerve:io - $xxxx (wholesale)
Skeleton:io - $xxxx (wholesale)
Sad to see Skeleton:io go - I can just picture the next hot CSS/JS framework launching on it. Alas I will have to take some joy from afar.
For the serious collectors, I have loaded millions of potential domains from Alexa/Majestic, along with 200k first and last names, and 500k English words in various categories. These lists can be accessed by purchasing an Pro membership NFT on OpenSea. 🎟
📣 First look at
@domain_io
. Monitor your listings across all popular markets. Track your sales, acquisitions, and renewals. Use our nameservers for premium DNS that is custom-built for domain investors.
This is pretty amazing. The world's 2nd largest
@ICANN
registrar is publicly committing to an open standard for SLDs on ETH L2. They could have easily turned their
@NamebaseHQ
acquisition into another "Unstoppable" farce but instead they chose the light.
🙏 BIG THX to my team:
@hodl_pcc
for always humoring me and for creating the perfect smart contracts from scratch
@FernandoFalci
for being an absolute code machine and holding us all to higher standards
@AlexNeto_
for creating beautiful human UX and for making the logo bigger
It's not rocket science but I'm selling more domains than ever (4 this week), with my portfolio fully priced and syndicated thanks to
@domain_io
. If you recognize this name you might be a domain veteran -- it makes me lol to see this page still live over at
@FlippaDomains
.
👏 This is great stuff from
@impervious
. These domains work out the box with their Beacon browser or Fingertip app. Customizable landing pages for TLDs can help cultivate a community. Bonus points for Bob extension usage. Let's make
@HNS
the root zone for the decentralized web.
We're kicking off the new year w/ an exciting new release of Impervious Domains!
New features include:
* Personalized TLD landing pages
* One-click staking with Bob Wallet Extension
* Custom NFT metadata
*
@ForeverDomains
integration
Happy New Year! 🎉
Sold ApiKit .com for $4850 via
@Afternic
. I'm a fan of *Kit, it's a naming trend I first saw with
@Apple
and their dev tools, e.g. AppKit, WebKit, etc. It's become popular with startups like
@ConvertKit
,
@BetaKit
. One of my favorite recent acquisitions is
Also, big shoutout to
@adraffy
for his work on ENS normalization and unpacking the duct tape ball that is
@unicode
. I’ve learned just about everything from his handy parsing tool:
Very excited about these recent acquisitions. It's getting very difficult to find nice .iOs at wholesale prices. 😅
Operator•io
Mailer•io
Testdrive•io
Scriptable•io
Impromptu•io
Appearance•io
Shoebox•io
ok I need DOMAINS TO SELL. like VERY SOON. I can’t take this anymore. every day I am checking and portfolio is staying the same. every day, check portfolio, same domains. I cant take this anymore, I have over invested, by a lot. it is what it is. but I need the DOMAINS TO SELL.
🚨 SEVERE ALPHA ALERT
A few hours ago I got an email from
@101domain
about 20K super short registry premium domains being immediately released for .BIO, .INFO, .POKER, etc.
🛑 There are still a lot of really good names available, so go look now! I will post the link to the
This was a lot of fun — first podcast I’ve ever done. If you want to hear my take on
@ensdomains
vs.
@hns
along with Mike Carson from
@impervious
, check it out. Just wish I would have talked more about
@signinwitheth
(!)
👀 sells for $90k (4th highest) and already has a landing page: "The Interface of the Metaverse", with an $ETH icon.
The top 5 .IO domain sales have all come this year and all from
@io_domains
. 🙌 📈
Although not all ENS integrations support CCIP yet, its use is rapidly expanding thanks to projects like
@NameStoneHQ
.
The ENS app itself supports our names nicely, with all records getting pulled cross-chain. You can even set your
@HNS_ID
as your primary name on ETH mainnet.
I just bought 18 LLLL.COMs at the
@Sedo
auction at an average cost of ~$350. I have never sold an before -- actually I've never sold ANY .COMs before so this is all speculation. But Dot Com is king they said. Here's my haul in order of price, how did I do?
Do you like BUY buttons?
@domain_io
has ALL the buttons. Yesterday I added the Ultimate Button Configurator® so you can control when they appear (or not) with individual rules. This includes integration with
@Undeveloped
so buyers are taken directly to checkout from the lander.
✨ HODL on to your hats, ARTISTs sharpen your brushes, and .DAPP developers refill your coffee because we're launching four brand new TLDs on ! Even the .BROs are excited this time:
.ARTIST 🎨
.DAPP 🔗
.BRO 👊
.HODL 🚀
The .IO registry is increasing prices by 28% on April 15th. This means the majority of my portfolio just got a lot more expensive. I know, frickin' renewal fees right? So to celebrate, here's a bunch of .IO names that I really don't want to renew any longer. DM or comment your
More recent .iO acquisitions. Total cost was less than one Background•io, lol. I like the brand possibilities for Heard•io, but I might be the only one.
FAQ•io
Heard•io
Visualize•io
Callout•io
Quester•io
Epilog•io
Flightcheck•io
Testbot•io
Instapoll•io
GamerTag•io
@nicksdjohnson
@MattGarciaEth
@VitalikButerin
.com is 37 years old, has 150 million names, and people started squatting 20 years ago for $10 a name. if your namespace is valuable/desirable then squatters will have no effect on long term viability. they actually do a fine job discovering fair market value for unused domains.
All other staked TLDs can use the HNS.ETH bridge. Bare TLDs work too, here d.hns.eth refers to the .d/ TLD.
Ultimately we hope to increase adoption for
@HNS
wallet naming so we can properly resolve from the root, without any bridge necessary.
Just a cool $1M to get first dibs on all the .ING and .MEME names you can eat from
@ICANN
next month. But that's just the entrance fee, no word on any premiums.
So
@DomainingCom
you going for ? is that a gTLD domain hack?
@ivanvankraft
this is one of the most cringe things I have ever seen coming from an ICANN TLD. What exactly does .ART want from ENS that you can’t just do yourselves? Do you want help marketing your TLD? Do you want ENS to offer .ART registrations on their website? Do you need help making an
Anybody want any of these expiring .iO's? Claim one name in the replies and DM me your
@Dynadot
forum username and I'll send it over. First come first served.
@address_eth
Numbers are fun to collect but I think they make for boring and forgettable identities. I will never remember or associate anybody with a random 3 or 4 digit number. Give me an imo.eth or jesus.eth shtick, a ralph.eth or foe.eth with matching avatar. Flex some creativity instead.
I listed a test domain in
@Afternic
with $1,000 minimum offer, but in some places it is showing $1,300 minimum offer. Is there some maths behind this
@jjstyler
@AlanShiflett
, maybe related to the Floor price?
@TheSeoulMint
@SolidityTV
@enstools
@ensdomains
People minting and selling unnormalized ENS names that won’t work in most systems. Most commonly abuse of the ZWJ invisible joiner stuffed into names where it doesn’t belong.
I'm finally shutting down , it was the precursor to
@domain_io
, it was fun to work on, and it gave me my first taste of success after so many half baked and never launched projects. Here's the backstory... 1/
☂️ will be shutting down on June 30th. This has been a long time coming as my primary focus has been
@domain_io
. I'll send out the announcement email with coupons in the next week or two.🌂
@nicksdjohnson
@VitalikButerin
@ArthurB
this is insanity. just add more TLDs and expand the available namespace before 2050. no sane business is going to risk losing their domain and putting their customers at risk.
, the domain that sold last month for $28,888 while parked at
@io_domains
is now live. They offer "Workplace Analytics" and were formerly at . Great domain and good move IMO!
@tiger_analytics
It's been a long month, but I'm all done with the
#OSTa3
developer challenge. Here's my final blog and video walkthrough for - a tokenized photography community built on
@OSTdotcom
blockchain infrastructure:
Two years ago Jürgen Neeme ripped me off in a deal which included Suite•io, Duel•io, Orchestra•io, Users•io. I created which has been the
#1
result for his name ever since. I guess he got tired of that because his lawyer started threatening to UDRP...