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Look it up in WHOISWHOISThe public record of who registered a domain and when. Most owner contact detail is hidden by privacy rules, but the dates are not.Read the definition. The registryRegistryThe organisation that runs an ending, like the company behind .com. It sets the rules and the price registrars pay.Read the definition record gives the registrarRegistrarThe company you buy and renew a domain through, such as Namecheap or GoDaddy. It does not own the name, it only registers it for you.Read the definition, the day the name was registered, the day it expires, its locks and where it points. Most records hide the holder behind a privacy servicePrivacy serviceA company whose name stands in the public record in place of a name’s holder. It hides the holder’s contact details and does not own the name.Read the definition; when the registry publishes the holder, the record shows it. The free WHOIS page reads one name a day.

If the name is listed for sale, the listing is the way in: open it and buy, or make an offer where it takes one. If it is not listed, the record gives the holder’s contact when the registryRegistryThe organisation that runs an ending, like the company behind .com. It sets the rules and the price registrars pay.Read the definition publishes it. Unique Domains does not contact holders for you.

Set the ask against two figures: the est. value, from one AI valuation model trained on past sales, and what names like it sold for, with their median once three sales back it. Those are its comparable salesComparable salesPast sales of names like this one, used to judge whether a price is fair.Read the definition. An ask well above both is where a negotiation starts, not what the market paid. Count the renewalRenewalThe yearly fee that keeps a domain yours. You pay it for as long as you hold the name, and on some endings it costs far more than the first year did.Read the definition too: whoever owns the name pays it every year. Unique Domains does not set or send offers.

Then watch the name. Price below emails you once if its ask is at or under your price, Becomes available once if it is ever released, and Status change at each stage if the holder does not renew. The same word may still be free on another ending. No tool can make a holder answer or sell.

A broker contacts the holder and negotiates for you, for a fee or a share of the price. Unique Domains is not a broker and takes no part in the deal: it gives you the record, the ask and the evidence before you, or a broker, make an offer.

Pay through the venueVenueA place where names change hands: a marketplace or an auction house.Read the definition’s own checkout when the name is listed there, or through an escrowEscrowA neutral third party that holds the buyer’s money and the domain until both sides have done their part, then completes the swap. It is how large domain sales avoid either side going first.Read the definition service, which holds your money until the name reaches your account. The holder lifts the transfer lockTransfer lockA setting that stops a name from being moved to another registrar. The owner turns it off at their registrar before a sale or a move.Read the definition at their registrarRegistrarThe company you buy and renew a domain through, such as Namecheap or GoDaddy. It does not own the name, it only registers it for you.Read the definition for the move. Unique Domains never holds money or moves names.

You can, but most names in use are renewed every year. The record gives the expiry date. If the holder does not renew, the name goes through a grace periodGrace periodThe weeks right after a name expires, when its owner can still renew it at the normal price. Many registrars park or auction the name during this time.Read the definition, redemptionRedemptionAbout 30 days after the grace period, when the name is deleted but only its last owner can still restore it, for a fee. If nobody does, it moves to pending delete.Read the definition and pending deletePending deleteThe last stage before an expired name is released. Nobody can renew or restore it any more; once the registry releases it, anyone can register it.Read the definition before anyone can register it, and the registrarRegistrarThe company you buy and renew a domain through, such as Namecheap or GoDaddy. It does not own the name, it only registers it for you.Read the definition may sell it on the way. We give an exact drop dayDropThe day an expired name leaves the registry and anyone can register it again. We give an exact day only on endings whose pending delete period we have measured, and only when we saw the name move from redemption into that stage.Read the definition only on endings whose last stage we have measured, which .com is not. Becomes available emails you within ten minutes of our check finding it free.

That depends on what the name is for, but the prices are plain. Each word exists once on each ending, and the read lists the word’s other endings with their status and price, so the .net or the .io sits beside the ask for the one you wanted.

No. Unique Domains is not a broker, a marketplaceMarketplaceA site where owners list domains for sale and buyers make offers, such as Sedo or Afternic.Read the definition, a registrarRegistrarThe company you buy and renew a domain through, such as Namecheap or GoDaddy. It does not own the name, it only registers it for you.Read the definition or an escrowEscrowA neutral third party that holds the buyer’s money and the domain until both sides have done their part, then completes the swap. It is how large domain sales avoid either side going first.Read the definition service. It reads the record, shows the ask beside the evidence and watches the name; you buy at the venueVenueA place where names change hands: a marketplace or an auction house.Read the definition, at its price.

Investor, at $79 a month: WHOISWHOISThe public record of who registered a domain and when. Most owner contact detail is hidden by privacy rules, but the dates are not.Read the definition for any name, Availability for a name or a list, Domain appraisal up to 1,000 names a run, watchlists with conditions on up to 50 names, 25 radars and the market pages. There is no trial: you pay at checkout, and we refund you in full if you ask within 7 days of paying. You can cancel anytime from the billing portal.