Liquid domain market report Q3 2026: Escrow.com sales up 92.18%

Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com, NameBio.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 41st 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:

• Escrow.com sales surged 92.18% to $31.44M — highlighting strong activity in private domain transactions.
• Publicly disclosed domain sales fell 13.78%, reaching $6.74M — with 4L .coms continuing to dominate reported volume.
• 4L .coms generated roughly $4.5M in public sales — accounting for around two-thirds of the quarter’s disclosed total.
• 3L .coms led escrow activity with $21.82M in sales — accounting for approximately 69% of Escrow.com’s reported total.
• Verisign climbed 12.43% in Q3, outperforming both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq — while its trailing 12-month gain stood at 2.02%.
• GoDaddy rose 12.52% this quarter, narrowly outpacing Verisign — but remained down 30.2% over the past year.
• The S&P 500 gained 2.03% in Q3 and 14.4% over the past 12 months — maintaining a positive trajectory across both periods.
• Nasdaq advanced 2.47% in Q3, edging ahead of the S&P 500 — though both indices trailed the quarter’s double-digit gains in domain-related stocks.
• 4L .com values held steady at the 5th percentile this quarter — with a modest 1% decline over the past year, pointing to relative price stability at the lower end of the market.
• Grayscale Bitcoin Trust surged 41.89% in Q3, leading the report’s asset comparisons — yet remained down 28.05% over the past year.

Read the complete report here.