The same .com averages $748 on GoDaddy and $13,745 on Sedo — an 18x gap. Where you list is the single biggest lever on what your name earns. We help you pick the right venue, price with real comps, and stop leaving money on the table.
Most "best marketplace" guides are paid placements. Here's what the data actually says.
The median domain sale is around $549. The average is $986 and climbing — a few six-figure sales drag the mean up. Price against medians or you'll wait years.
GoDaddy retired Dan.com on June 27, 2025 after a $69.6M acquisition. Guides still recommending it are outdated. The aftermarket reshuffled — and most advice hasn't caught up.
Thursday averages $1,089 per sale at peak volume. Saturday drops to $792. Timing a listing is a real, measurable lever — and it costs nothing.
The platform shut down on 27 June 2025 at 9% commission. Its inventory moved to Afternic at 15–30%. If you never recalculated your floors, you may now be listed below your own minimum — and nothing warned you.
No single marketplace wins everything. Premium .com belongs on Sedo. Expired names belong on DropCatch. Listing in the wrong place means the right buyers never see it.
Pull 5–10 recent sales of similar names — same length, same TLD, same keyword category. Take the median, not the mean. Automated appraisers disagree by 3× or more.
Premium .com ($5K+) → Sedo or Afternic. Standard .com → GoDaddy. Aged or expired names → DropCatch. European ccTLDs → Sedo's deep liquidity.
Buy Now converts faster; Make Offer extracts more on unique names. Multi-list premium inventory across two venues — distribution is the most underused lever there is.
Fee comparison posts copy each other, and the errors have compounded. We went to the official pricing pages. Two of the industry's most repeated numbers do not survive contact with the source.
Spaceship raised standard seller commission to 10%, and it is not hidden — the founder confirmed it publicly. Multiple 2026 comparison pages still show 5%, 6% or 5–8%. Notably, the 10% can be split with the buyer by chat, which almost no guide mentions.
Dynadot's own help pages state plainly: "commission fee is 10% of the sold price." The 0% myth conflates two things — Dynadot charges the buyer nothing, and a seller who finds their own buyer and uses a payment link pays 5%. Neither makes marketplace sales free.
| Where you sell | Rate you actually pay | What the internet says | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sedo — Buy Now + parked | 10% | Correct | Must be Buy Now and parked with Sedo. $60 min (cat. 1) |
| Sedo — standard sale | 15% | Vague | Make Offer, auction, or BIN without parking. This is the default. |
| Sedo — SedoMLS network | 20% | Vague | Auto-promoted. More reach, double the cheapest rate. |
| Namecheap Market | 10% | Correct | Flat, no tiers. Auto transfer included. |
| Spaceship SellerHub | 10% | Wrong — says 5–6% | Rates changed; guides didn't. Splittable with buyer by chat. |
| Dynadot — marketplace | 10% | Wrong — says 0% | 5% only if you bring your own buyer via payment link. |
| Afternic — GoDaddy nameservers | 15% | Correct | $15 minimum. Requires pointing DNS at GoDaddy's aftermarket. |
| Afternic — other nameservers | 25% | Understated | Your DNS silently decides this. Most sellers never check. |
| NamePros — forum | 0% | Correct | Truly zero — but you arrange escrow yourself and it's wholesale pricing. |
| Your own lander | 0% + escrow | Correct | Escrow.com runs 0.89–3.25%. You own the buyer acquisition problem. |
Rates verified against Sedo's official price list, Dynadot's help centre, Namecheap's support KB and reported Spaceship changes. Excludes taxes, banking and currency fees. Confirm current terms before listing — providers do change these without notice, which is precisely the problem.
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