Liquid market report Q1 2026: public disclosed sales jumped 88.82%

Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com, NameBio.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 39th 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.

Here are a few highlights from this quarter:

1.  📈 Public disclosed sales jumped 88.82%, reaching $5.11M, showing a much stronger quarter for reported liquid domain transactions.
2. 💸 Escrow.com private sales climbed 80.79% to $25.54M, confirming that most of the action still happens behind the scenes.
3. 💼 3L and 4L .coms dominated again across both channels, with 4L leading escrow volume and 3L close behind, reinforcing their status as the core of the liquid market.
4. 🏛️ Public sales were far more concentrated, with 3L and 4L .coms making up the bulk of disclosed volume while the rest of the categories remained relatively small.
5. 🌐 2L domains remain the most developed category by far, with nearly 30% in active use, a strong sign of deep end-user adoption and long-term scarcity value.
6. 🧱 2C domains continue to stand out in development as well, at roughly 18%, putting them surprisingly close to 3L .coms and well ahead of most numeric categories.
7. 🌀 Turnover stayed very low overall, but 4N and 2C showed relatively more movement than the rest, suggesting that trading activity remains selective rather than broad-based.
8. 📉 Numeric categories still looked weak on the public side, with very limited disclosed activity in 2N and 3N, while escrow volume was also concentrated mainly in 4N.
9. 💹 In Q1, gold was the strongest major benchmark shown at +8.57%, while the 5th percentile of 4L .coms still managed a modest gain of 0.91%, outperforming several mainstream assets.
10. 📊 Over the past 12 months, 5th percentile 4L .coms posted a solid 11% gain, while 4L and 5N liquid domains broadly held up better than several major public market benchmarks shown on the chart.

Read the complete report here.