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Wholesale Pricing

The investor-to-investor floor price for a domain — what a domainer accepts to liquidate quickly, below retail.

FBFenwei BianAuthorVZVictor ZhouEditorJune 22, 2026
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Wholesale pricing is the investor-to-investor floor for a domain: what one domainer will pay another, typically 20–40% of what an end user would pay at retail. A seller liquidating capital quickly accepts this discount because the buyer is an investor pricing in their own resale risk and required return, not someone who needs the name. Wholesale deals close fast — bulk portfolio sales, investor forums, and broker networks move names at this level — but yield far less than retail pricing. Understanding the wholesale floor is essential for domain appraisal: it sets the realistic quick-sale value, distinct from the aspirational end-user number.

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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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