Liquid market report Q4 2024: Escrow.com sales surged by 126.32%

Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com, NameBio.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 34th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”.

The objective of the report is to present key statistics and generate a debate amongst the industry stakeholders about the fair value of such domains.

Starting from this edition, they added the actual list of transactions for the top tier domains (2L, 3L, 2N, 3N, 4N, 2C) and an indicative sample of transactions (top, median and bottom 10 sales) for the lower tiers of the liquid market (4L, 5N, 3C).

Here are a few highlights from this quarter:

• Escrow.com sales surged by 126.32%, reaching $17,383,030, demonstrating robust activity in private transactions.
• Publicly disclosed sales dropped by 43.17%, totaling $2,365,883, reflecting a shift towards private deals or fewer large public transactions.
• The total number of disclosed transactions reached 1,726 this quarter, indicating continued engagement in the market.
• 5-number .com domains experienced a sharp decline in their 5th percentile values, dropping by 30% QoQ and 81.08% in one year, highlighting caution in this category.
• Comparatively, premium .com domains showed resilience, particularly 2L, 3L and 4L, which continue to dominate escrow.com sales volumes.

Read the complete report here.