Make Offer
A domain listing that invites buyers to submit a bid the seller can accept, counter, or decline.
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Make Offer is a domain listing format that invites prospective buyers to submit a bid, which the seller can accept, counter, or decline. Unlike a fixed buy-it-now price, it suits names where the seller is unsure of the optimal number or expects an end user to surface who will pay above the investor floor. Sellers protect themselves with a reserve price — a private walk-away number below which they will not engage — and often route negotiation through a domain broker who reads buyer intent and anchors the conversation. The downside is friction and time: every sale becomes a negotiation.
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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.