GGRG has released its latest quarterly report on the state of the highly liquid domain market. The report, prepared in collaboration with NameBio and Escrow.com, summarizes third quarter results for highly liquid domains. These typically include 614,928 names within the .COM top-level domain, consisting of two- to five-character combinations of letters and/or numbers.
The main trend observed in Q3 was a sharp decline in the total volume of publicly disclosed transactions. Total public sales amounted to only $4,359,822, compared to $23,711,167 in the previous quarter, indicating an 81.61 percent decrease. However, analysts note that the second quarter’s figures were unusually high, and the current results may represent normalization toward average levels.
Meanwhile, the total value of transactions processed through the escrow service Escrow.com increased by 7.43 percent compared with the previous quarter, reaching $14,468,615. As a result, the combined value of highly liquid domain transactions in Q3 stood at $18,828,437, down from $37,179,296 in Q2.
Four-letter domain names remain the most popular segment, with the total volume of transactions on Escrow.com exceeding $10 million, accounting for nearly 70 percent of the total value processed through the platform. Two-letter domains continue to show the highest level of active use: over 28 percent of such domains are currently associated with active websites. As for the outsiders, five-character domains have continued to demonstrate the weakest performance, both in transaction value and in end-user adoption, a trend that has persisted for several consecutive quarters.
