Buying a premium .com aftermarket name in crypto used to mean "convert back to fiat, give Sedo your card." This is the brokered path instead: pay us in BTC, ETH, USDT or XMR, we acquire the domain on Sedo on your behalf, we push the transfer to your registrar. End-to-end usually inside 24 hours.

1. Pick a domain that fits the use case

Skip the urge to chase a single signal. Length, age, Wayback history, niche fit, current DNS state — they all matter, and they're all on the listing page. A 6-year-old, niche-relevant name with an active Wayback history is usually a better buy than a "shorter" or "lower-priced" name with no history at all.

A few rules of thumb we follow:

Brand resale: short, pronounceable, no hyphens, no numbers. Open the Wayback summary — if it ran adult content or a link farm for years, drop it.
Topical fit: pick names where the dictionary keywords match what you'll build. Look at the heuristic niche on the listing — if it says crypto and you're building a fintech tool, fine; if it says legal and you're not, keep looking.
DNS today: an active A or MX record means the domain is in use today. Whether that's good (proven asset) or bad (potential trademark / brand confusion) depends on context — read the trademark scan section.
Provenance: long-registered names (8+ years) carry more story than recently-dropped ones. The RDAP card on the listing shows you the original registration year.

The filters on /browse cover these signals: active DNS, trademark-clean, has-Wayback, by niche, by TLD, by age, by price band. Save searches you re-run via your account — daily digest matches when fresh inventory hits the catalogue.

2. Verify the domain manually before paying

Even with our checks, take 90 seconds to verify:

Click the live Sedo widget on the listing — it shows the current Sedo BIN. If it doesn't match our quoted price, the listing is stale; tell us.
Open the Wayback screenshot for the latest snapshot — confirm the niche signal we surfaced.
Search the bare name on Google + Twitter + GitHub — flag anything that looks like a live brand you'd later get a cease-and-desist on.
If the trademark scan flagged a conflict, treat that as a stop sign unless you have a clear non-conflicting use case.

If anything is off, skip. The catalogue refreshes daily.

3. Checkout

The cart is single-item — premium .com sales are high-ticket and one at a time. From the detail page, click "Buy in crypto" → fill the checkout form: your email (for the receipt + the auth-code handoff) and your destination registrar (Namecheap, Dynadot, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, or "Other" — we'll ask in email).

Pick your payment method:

Bitcoin — on-chain. OxaPay generates the invoice and you scan the QR / paste the address.
Ethereum — ERC-20 mainnet.
USDT — Tron or ERC-20, pick on the OxaPay screen.
Monero — privacy-first, fully native.

No card. No PayPal. No KYC for crypto payments at our level. (OxaPay may apply their own checks above certain volumes — that's between you and them.)

Confirmation timing: 1 confirmation on BTC mainnet (~10 min), instant on USDT/ETH if the network is calm, ~20 min for XMR depending on ring signature processing.

4. We acquire the domain on Sedo

Once OxaPay confirms your payment, our admin gets a Telegram ping. They open the Sedo listing, hit "Buy now" with our credit card at the listed BIN, and capture the Sedo invoice number into your order. We pay 25% more on average than we charge you — the −20% discount on every listing is our customer-acquisition cost, not a "we got it cheaper" margin.

The order page flips to acquired once the Sedo purchase clears Sedo's escrow. This is usually within 4-6 hours of your payment, sometimes faster, occasionally next-business-day depending on Sedo's fraud checks on our card.

5. We push the transfer to your registrar

From our Sedo account, we initiate the transfer to your destination registrar. You'll get an email from your registrar (Namecheap, GoDaddy, etc.) asking you to confirm the incoming transfer — click confirm, that's the only manual step on your side.

Most registrars use a push-between-accounts flow. Some require an EPP/auth code; if so, we paste it in your order page and email it to you. The order page reflects state in real time.

6. Domain lands in your account

Most full loops complete within 24 hours of payment, often within 6-12. The order page flips to completed. Point nameservers wherever — your host, Cloudflare, a 301, parked, your call.

What if it goes wrong?

Domain unavailable on Sedo by the time we click buy: full refund within 24 hours + 10% store credit on your next order. We refund to the wallet you paid from (or to an OxaPay refund address you provide).
Sedo rejects our card: we retry once with an alternate card; if both fail, full refund within 24 hours.
Transfer rejected by destination registrar: we retry once with an alternate registrar (your choice), then refund.
Domain has a hidden penalty we missed: we refund within 24 hours of you flagging it, with proof (Search Console manual action notice or equivalent).

A few things we won't tell you

"This domain will rank in 30 days." Unknowable. Ranking depends on what you build on top.
"We have exclusive inventory." We don't. Every listing is also live on Sedo at the listed BIN. We save you the card-payment step and the KYC.
"Quality 80 = premium, Quality 40 = junk." It's a heuristic. Read the listing yourself.

That's the whole flow. Browse the catalog when you're ready, or contact us if you have a specific niche or budget in mind.