Everything about buying a premium .com in crypto.

Yes, via a broker. No mainstream marketplace (Sedo, Afternic, Dan, Atom, GoDaddy Auctions, HugeDomains, Sav, Dynadot) accepts cryptocurrency directly for aftermarket .com sales. vaultdom takes your crypto, acquires the domain on Sedo with fiat, then pushes the transfer to your registrar. Median end-to-end is 6 to 24 hours after the on-chain confirmation.

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH on mainnet), Tether (USDT on ERC-20 and TRC-20), and Monero (XMR). All routed through OxaPay invoices. No cards, no wires, no PayPal, no Stripe, no bank ACH.

Median 6 to 24 hours from on-chain confirmation to the domain landing at your destination registrar. Bitcoin confirms in roughly 10 minutes, Monero in 20 minutes, ETH and USDT in 1 to 3 minutes. The Sedo BIN acquisition takes 2 to 6 business hours; the inter-registrar transfer is usually under one hour at Cloudflare Registrar or Porkbun, longer at Namecheap or GoDaddy.

It is a launch loss-leader. We absorb the 20% spread as customer acquisition cost — cheaper for us than paid ads at this stage. Once volume scales we will move to a flat markup; early customers stay grandfathered into preferred pricing.

Three signals. (1) Sedo partner ID 336308 is verifiable on Sedo's side — they audit every partner transaction. (2) OxaPay holds the crypto in escrow until we confirm the Sedo purchase has cleared; we cannot abscond with the crypto without delivering the domain. (3) The refund policy is automatic when Sedo fails to deliver — paid back to the same wallet within 24 hours, plus a 10% credit on the next order.

Not on a BIN listing. The discount is built into the upfront display price. For unpriced or offer-only Sedo listings, the /domain page shows a 'Make offer in crypto' CTA — submit your offer, we relay it to Sedo, and acquire if accepted.

Your basket is recomputed at checkout. If the listing is gone, you are notified before payment and can choose another domain or abandon the order. If we paid Sedo and the listing was pulled mid-acquisition, we refund the full crypto amount within 24 hours plus a 10% credit.

OxaPay imposes a minimum of roughly $20 USD equivalent per invoice, mostly to cover the network fees. Below that the invoice will not generate. The featured catalogue mostly sits above $300, so this is rarely an issue.

Yes. Add up to 25 domains to the cart, set a destination registrar for each, and pay once in BTC, ETH, USDT, or XMR. We acquire them sequentially on Sedo and push the EPP codes by email as each transfer is ready. The 20% discount applies per item.

OxaPay. It is a UAE-headquartered processor that supports BTC, ETH, USDT (ERC-20 and TRC-20), XMR, and dozens of other coins. Webhook-based confirmation, no KYC for buyers in practice under $1,000 per month. We chose OxaPay over BTCPay self-host to avoid a second VPS and over MoonPay because MoonPay imposes KYC.

The buyer pays the fee they choose at their wallet — OxaPay does not impose a fee on top of the network fee. For BTC, pick a fee that confirms in 30 minutes or less; for XMR, default fees are fine. For ETH and USDT (ERC-20), pay normal-priority gas at the wallet level.

If you want to lock the USD value at checkout time, pay in USDT — the invoice amount is fixed in USDT at quote time. If you are happy to pay from BTC or ETH at the prevailing rate, the OxaPay invoice converts your BTC or ETH amount against the displayed USD price at the moment you submit the broadcast. Confirmation is faster on USDT-TRC-20 (~1 min) than on BTC (~10 min) for time-sensitive purchases.

Ethereum mainnet only at the moment. We do not accept payment on Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, or Polygon. Send strictly on mainnet to the address the invoice provides; cross-chain transfers will not credit.

Yes. OxaPay generates a one-time XMR receive address per invoice — that is all the privacy guarantee you need from our side. Run your wallet over Tor if you want network-level privacy too. The order receipt is sent to the email you provide, which is the only identifying field we collect.

Refunds go back to the same wallet that paid by default. If you want a refund to a different address (recommended for one-time wallets or exchange withdrawals), email hello@vaultdom.com from the contact email on the order and provide an OxaPay-supported refund address. Refunds settle inside 24 hours of approval and incur the network fee.

Kraken's public ticker, cached for five minutes server-side. Displayed rate equals the rate at the moment of cache refresh — at OxaPay invoice time, the actual locked-in rate is the rate OxaPay sees on its own feed, which can be marginally different. The discrepancy is typically under 0.3% on BTC.

In most jurisdictions, yes — paying in BTC is a disposal of BTC at the current USD value and may trigger a capital gains event. Consult a local tax professional. Paying in USDT does not trigger a price-fluctuation gain (stablecoin) and is the most tax-efficient option in jurisdictions that tax crypto-to-fiat disposals.

OxaPay credits the overpayment to the order. If the overpayment is significant (more than 5%), we refund the excess to a wallet address you specify within 24 hours. The domain transfer still proceeds normally on the original order amount.

After we acquire on Sedo, Sedo pushes the registrant to our brokered account (instant after fiat clearance, typically 2 to 6 hours). We then generate the EPP/auth code at Sedo's registrar (TransIP) and email it to you. You enter the code at your destination registrar and approve the inbound transfer. Most receiving registrars finalize in 0 to 7 days; Cloudflare Registrar and Porkbun usually clear in under one hour.

Any registrar that accepts inbound inter-registrar transfers via EPP/auth code — the standard ICANN protocol. Tested with Namecheap, Cloudflare Registrar, Porkbun, Dynadot, NameSilo, Gandi, OVH, and GoDaddy. For privacy: Njalla (Sweden), OrangeWebsite (Iceland), 1984 Hosting (Iceland). Email us if your registrar is unusual; we have not encountered an unsupported one yet.

Cloudflare Registrar. They accept the inbound transfer and finalize in under one hour in our experience, with no five-day acceptance window. Porkbun is second fastest. Namecheap and GoDaddy take 1 to 5 days to accept the EPP code, dragging the total to closer to 7 days.

Yes. Once the domain transfers to your registrar, ICANN imposes a 60-day lock during which you cannot transfer the domain to a third registrar. You can still update nameservers, point DNS, sell the domain (via a registrar-internal push or a marketplace push), or redirect it — only inter-registrar transfers are locked.

We do not — the destination registrar handles WHOIS privacy at the registrant level. Cloudflare Registrar, Porkbun, NameSilo, and Njalla all enable privacy by default at no extra cost. Namecheap and GoDaddy require explicit opt-in.

Reply to the original order email — we can reissue the EPP code from Sedo's registrar any number of times before the inbound transfer completes. After the transfer, the auth code is yours to manage at your own registrar.

No. Once the EPP code is in your hands, the spread is non-recoverable on our side and the transaction is final. You can decline the inbound transfer at your destination registrar to abandon the domain, but no refund is issued at that point.

No. The brokered transfer removes the domain from Sedo entirely. You can re-list it later on Sedo or anywhere else under your own account — Sedo will not retain any handle to it.

No. We do not collect government ID, selfies, phone numbers, source-of-funds documents, addresses, or tax IDs on the crypto checkout path. We collect only the email for the auth-code handoff and the destination registrar.

The payment is, if you pay in Monero. The domain registration depends on the registrar you transfer to. For full operational anonymity: pay in XMR from a Tor-wrapped wallet, use a temporary email forwarder (SimpleLogin, AnonAddy), and transfer to a privacy-friendly registrar (Njalla, OrangeWebsite, 1984 Hosting) with WHOIS privacy.

Order metadata (amount, timestamps, domain, destination registrar) is kept indefinitely for accounting and refund eligibility. The contact email is kept while the order is active and for the refund window. We do not sell, share, or repurpose order data for marketing.

No. Telegram is used internally for our operator alerts. Buyer contact is by email only. If you want a Signal/Telegram channel for live status during a high-ticket order, we can arrange one — but it is opt-in.

OxaPay returns the wallet address that paid (required by their refund flow). We store it linked to the order so we can refund automatically if Sedo fails to deliver. We do not enrich, share, or correlate wallet addresses to identities. Buyers concerned with on-chain heuristic linking should mix BTC before payment or use Monero outright.

Yes. The site has no Cloudflare-imposed CAPTCHA wall, no fingerprint check, no anti-Tor exit policy. Some destination registrars do require non-VPN traffic at signup; that is on their side, not ours.

Sedo's marketplace, accessed via their public keysearch endpoint and per-domain modal endpoint, under registered Sedo partner ID 336308. We curate roughly 1,500 hand-picked .com names from this stream, plus on-demand search results across 217 curated keywords. Every listing is a live, for-sale Sedo .com — not a parked rental, not a fresh registration, not a drop-catch pre-order.

Featured catalogue prices are refreshed by a daily batch sweep (every 24 hours). Per-domain Sedo prices are also re-fetched on cart-add to catch any last-minute changes. Sedo's listing status is verified at checkout — if the listing is pulled between page-view and payment, you are notified before paying.

Scope decision for MVP. .com is the highest-value TLD on the aftermarket and the only one with deep enough Sedo liquidity to maintain a 1,500-listing featured catalogue at the price points we target. .net, .io, .ai, .co, .org coverage is a roadmap item, not in MVP scope.

No. We broker fixed-price BIN listings only. Auctions require active bid management and timezone-aligned operator presence that does not fit the brokered model. If you want a Sedo auction domain, bid on Sedo directly and pay in fiat.

No. Expired domains in the strict sense return to the public pool after the registrar's deletion window and are caught by automated drop-catchers (SnapNames, DropCatch, NameJet). vaultdom brokers aftermarket .com names — already-registered domains that the owner chose to list for resale on Sedo. The two markets do not overlap.

A heuristic composite computed at curation time from length, dictionary-word match, niche confidence, has-Wayback-history bonus, and registration age bonus. No paid SEO signals. It is meant as a quick ranking among the featured catalogue, not as an absolute measure — a 75 in our scoring is a very desirable name; a 90+ is rare and usually well above $5k.

DR comes from Open PageRank (free 1,000-call/day API; we batch through it daily). DA comes from Moz Free (rate-limited polite scrape, ~10 lookups/IP/day). Both are 0–100 scales but use different backlink crawls; treat them as cross-checked signals. We do not pay for Ahrefs DR or Majestic Trust Flow.

Total captures, first-seen date, last-seen date. A long history with regular captures is a strong topical-authority signal — Google and other engines remember the topical context of past content. A first-seen of 2007 with 800 snapshots is a clearly-aged domain; a first-seen of 2024 with 4 snapshots is essentially a new name.

Our heuristic trademark scan flags well-known global brands at curation time and we exclude matches from the featured catalogue. The scan is heuristic, not exhaustive — it cannot catch every regional or industry-specific mark. The buyer is responsible for clearing any trademark concern before resale or active branding. We refund within 24 hours if Sedo flags the listing for an active dispute before completing the transfer.

Every listing displays the Wayback Machine snapshot history, the SSL certificate history from Certificate Transparency logs, and the current HTTP/parking-page status. Buyers can check Wayback for past content, scan crt.sh certificate subdomains for suspicious patterns, and run the domain through Google Safe Browsing before deciding. We do not pre-screen for spam history beyond what these public signals reveal.

Possibly. Manual penalties travel with the domain across owners. We cannot detect manual penalties via public signals. The DR/DA scores will be drastically lower than expected if a penalty is active. Treat any domain with DR over 30 and traffic-estimate under 100 visitors/month as a potential penalty case — verify in Google Search Console after acquisition (free, 2-minute setup).

Full refund within 24 hours, paid back to the same wallet, plus a 10% credit on the next order. This is one of the documented refund triggers in /refund-policy.

Same as the seller-refusal case: full refund within 24 hours, paid back to the same wallet, plus 10% credit. We have a five-figure safety buffer at the broker level so refunds are never gated on cashflow.

Yes. Email hello@vaultdom.com with the exact name. If it is listed on Sedo at any price, we will broker the BIN. If it is not on Sedo but is registered to a known reseller (HugeDomains, Brannan, Mike Mann), we will reach out and pass through the price. Custom hunts have no fee — the same 20% discount applies if a BIN is reachable.

We follow Sedo's restrictions and OxaPay's restrictions, which mirror standard US/EU sanctions lists at the marketplace and processor levels. We do not impose additional restrictions beyond what those two partners require. If your jurisdiction is sanctioned and Sedo blocks the transaction, the refund mechanism applies.