Domain trading
Buying and selling domain names to profit from price differences, ranging from quick flips to long-term holds in a managed portfolio.
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Domain trading refers to the buying and selling of domain names as investment assets, similar to trading stocks or real estate. Traditional domain trading involves lengthy transfer processes, escrow services, and limited liquidity. Tokenized domains can also be traded as NFTs on marketplaces, which enables on-chain transfer and price history transparency.
Related keywords
- domain trading
- domain investing
- digital real estate
- secondary market
- liquidity
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
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.