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Domain Broker

An intermediary who negotiates a domain sale between buyer and seller, usually for a commission.

FBFenwei BianAuthorVZVictor ZhouEditorJune 22, 2026
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A domain broker is a professional intermediary who facilitates the sale of a domain name between a seller and a buyer, typically earning a commission — commonly 10–20% of the final sale price — in exchange for prospecting buyers, conducting outreach, negotiating price, and coordinating the transaction through escrow. Brokers are especially valuable for high-value assets where direct outreach to an unknown seller would feel adversarial, or when a buyer wants a name that isn't publicly listed for sale. Both inbound brokerage (selling a name a client owns) and acquisition brokerage (finding a name a client wants to buy) are common services. Reputable brokerage firms include Sedo, Media Options, and GoDaddy's brokerage team, all of which leverage large databases of recent aftermarket transactions. Because a broker's outreach often involves identifying the end user willing to pay retail, brokered domain trading frequently achieves the highest prices in the market.

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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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