Forward your domain. It's listed.

The floor is $500.

Buy-now price and minimum offer both. Not a positioning choice: Escrow.com's fee has a $50 minimum below $5k, so a $300 sale nets 78.3% after fees — worse than Sedo, which takes 15% but has a $60 minimum commission. Below about $1,900 you pay that $50 instead of the 2.6%. Cheaper listings can't be defended, so they aren't accepted.

Escrow.com can't serve everyone.

Settlement runs through Escrow.com, and they can't send or receive money in a number of countries — Ukraine, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan among them. The full list is Escrow.com's, it changes, and it's the one that governs; check it against your own country and your buyers' before you re-point anything. If you're on it, this rail doesn't work for you and we'd rather you found out here.

A forward proves control, not title.

So: an RDAP snapshot when you list (registrar, registration date, last-changed date, status flags, nameservers), a re-check and diff immediately before any escrow transaction, and a hard hold if the registrar name changed, a transfer lock dropped, or the last-changed date moved. Everything above $5k gets looked at by a human. Anyone can report a listing, and Escrow.com's 3-day inspection period sits behind the buyer. That is a screen, not a title search, and we'd rather call it what it is.

Nothing is live yet.

This is a pledge, not a listing: you're telling us how many names you'd actually re-point, and we're deciding whether to build it. If it goes ahead you get one email when listings open. If it doesn't, you get one email saying so.

Payouts are Escrow.com's, not ours — they pay the seller after the buyer accepts, by their own disbursement methods, and their wire fees are theirs. Check their disbursement terms for your country before you list.

If a deal cancels or the buyer rejects the domain, we charge no commission — that's how Escrow.com's broker mechanics work, not a promo: their Terms of Use §39 says that on a cancellation after funds are received, or a rejection, "the Broker will not receive the commission". Escrow.com's own fee rules also put 100% of the escrow fee on the buyer in that case, not on you.

Leaving costs one DNS change. No account to close, no exclusivity, no nameserver handover, nothing held back. Re-point the forward and the listing is gone within a day.

"The buyer ends up on a marketplace URL instead of my domain."

Stated on NamePros almost word for word: the lander domain should be the domain they want to buy, not a redirect to a marketplace URL. That's correct as an objection and there's no version of a forward that dodges it — the address bar changes. Two answers. If branding is the whole pitch for a name, forwarding is the wrong product for that name; the version where your domain stays in the address bar (you CNAME instead of forwarding, TLS handled for you, the sale page underneath) is what that becomes, and enough people telling us the redirect is non-negotiable is what makes that the main product instead of the option. And the counter-argument from the same threads is worth saying out loud: most buyers never visit the domain they're buying — sales come through syndication. Which is why this is aimed at the traffic that already arrives at your name, and why you should keep your Afternic and Sedo listings exactly where they are.

"Afternic's 15/25 split makes this math impossible."

On names using GoDaddy-brand aftermarket nameservers, you're right, and we won't pretend otherwise: Afternic charges 15% there and 25% on names that aren't, so re-pointing costs 10 points on every Afternic sale of that name. As one DNW commenter put it in February, the penalty is structured so the economics wouldn't make sense to land somewhere else even at 0% commission. So this isn't for those names. It's for names already at 25% because they're not on those nameservers, for sellers running their own landers, and for dual-listing: Afternic keeps the MLS distribution at 25%, the type-in lead that converts here costs ~7.5% all-in. If your whole portfolio sits at 15%, pledge zero names and keep your money.

"No accounts means nothing is verified. What stops stolen domains?"

This is the right question to ask a marketplace with no signup, and the answer isn't "trust us". A forward proves control, not title. At listing we store an RDAP snapshot: registrar, registration date, last-changed date, status flags, nameservers — with risk flags on names registered under a year ago, changed in the last 60 days, or missing a transfer lock. Immediately before any escrow transaction we re-fetch and diff it: changed registrar name, dropped lock, or an advanced last-changed date is a hard hold, no transaction, human review. Above $5k a human reviews it regardless. .com RDAP publishes no transfer event at all, so a registrar-name diff is the transfer detector rather than a transfer date — that's a measured limitation, not a design preference. Anyone can report a listing, and the buyer has Escrow.com's 3-day inspection period. It's a screen, not a title search.

"5% won't last. Spaceship went from 5% to 10% and everyone saw it coming."

They did, and the people who moved names there for the 5% moved them straight back. The only argument worth making is about what the 5% has to cover: no ad revenue anywhere in this model — Google stopped treating parked domains as an ad surface on Feb 10, 2026 and that economy is gone — no free landers to subsidise, and Escrow.com's fee passed through at their published rate instead of absorbed and re-priced later. Absorbing it isn't even arithmetically possible below $1,000, since 5% of $1,000 is exactly the $50 escrow minimum, so it's charged openly. Judge the number by what it has to pay for; a promise on a pre-launch page is worth nothing.

"Escrow.com is the weak link — $50 minimum, Tier-2 selfie KYC, accounts frozen mid-deal."

All three happen, and they're all Escrow.com's, not ours to fix. The $50 minimum is exactly why the floor is $500. The verification is theirs: they hold the funds, they run the KYC, and a Tier-2 request mid-transaction is a real thing sellers have hit. What we do about it is put the country restrictions in front of you at listing time instead of at payout time, keep the escrow fee visible as a line item rather than folded into a round commission, and charge nothing when a deal cancels. What we don't do is claim to have an escrow rail of our own — an unlicensed in-house one would be a bigger risk to you than Escrow.com's paperwork.

"Dan died, Bodis died, and I'm not migrating again."

Migration fatigue is the most reasonable objection on this list and there's no track record to answer it with. What there is instead: the cost of trying is one DNS change, and the cost of leaving is the same change back. No account to close, no data locked in, no nameserver handover, no exclusivity, nothing of yours held anywhere. If this shuts down, your forward stops resolving to a listing and you re-point it — that's the whole exit. And this page exists precisely because we'd rather kill the idea now, on your numbers, than migrate you onto something that dies in a year.