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Comparable Sales

Past sales of similar domains used as benchmarks to estimate what a name is worth.

FBFenwei BianAuthorVZVictor ZhouEditorJune 22, 2026
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Comparable sales — or comps — are the historical sale prices of domains that closely resemble the name being valued, and they are the single most reliable input in any domain appraisal. A comp is most useful when it matches on TLD, length, word count, keyword category, and approximate age of the sale; a three-letter .com that sold for $80,000 last year is a far stronger signal for a similar three-letter .com than a five-year-old sale of a four-word .net. Databases like NameBio aggregate hundreds of thousands of disclosed aftermarket transactions, and platforms such as DNJournal publish weekly sale reports, making the aftermarket increasingly transparent. Because not all domain sales are disclosed, comps always represent a floor sample rather than a complete market picture.

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Fenwei Bian

Software Developer & Writer • Namefi
Author

Fenwei Bian is a software developer in her thirties who spends her working hours in pull requests and her weekends with her hands in soil or sawdust. Years of open source on GitHub taught her that names are interfaces: a good one is clear, honest about what it does, and kind to whoever has to use it next.

She gardens because it rewards patience and punishes wishful thinking, and she does woodwork because a joint either fits or it doesn't. Both habits show up in how she writes about naming — measure twice, check the source, and don't sand over a rough spot and hope no one notices.

For Namefi she writes about how domain markets actually move, the practical trade-offs of tokenizing and flipping names, and picking a domain you'll still be glad you own in twenty years.

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Victor Zhou

Founder & Standards Editor • Namefi
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Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.

His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.

For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.

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