GGRG, in collaboration with Escrow.com and NameBio.com, and supported by Intelium and ShortNames.com, has released the 34th edition of its quarterly Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO) report.The publication focuses on the market for so-called high-liquidity domain names, a category that includes 614,928 domain names in the .COM top-level domain, ranging from 2 to 5 characters in length (letters or numbers in various combinations). The results of the first quarter of this year were quite impressive.
According to Online Domains, sales of high-liquidity domain names on public marketplaces – those with publicly available data – surged by an extraordinary 121.61% compared to the fourth quarter of last year. The total volume of these transactions reached $5,248,980, marking the highest figure ever recorded since the reports began.
While transaction volume via Escrow.com has dipped slightly, down just 2.11% from the previous quarter, it remained robust, totaling $17,018,238. This brought the overall volume of high-liquidity domain transactions to $22,267,218, which is nearly $2.5 million more than in Q4 2024, itself already considered a record-setting quarter.
Four-letter domain names proved to be the most valuable asset segment last quarter, accounting for nearly half of the total transaction volume – approximately $10 million. In contrast, five-digit domain names continued to lose ground, with sales dropping 65.71% quarter-on-quarter and 81.56% year-on-year. This decline may be linked to a cooling in the Chinese domain market, where numerical domains have traditionally enjoyed the greatest popularity.
