Buying a domain from its owner
How to buy a listed .com from its owner on Sleekdomains: find the listing, choose Buy now or Make Offer, pay the asking price plus checkout fees, and plan the registrar transfer or push. Check WHOIS age, a trademark search, and past use before you pay. A request does not charge a card.
Updated 27 October 2026.
Buying a name from its owner, on this site, starts as a request. The request records the name, the price, and your email. It does not charge a card, and it does not move the name. How it works is the short version of that path. This page is the longer one.
Find the listing
Open the collection and search the exact spelling, including “.com”. The name page is the listing. The buy-now figure on it is the asking price.
- payarmor.com is listed at $4,000.
- albumstudio.com is listed at $1,800.
- kozop.com is listed at $1,000.
Those figures are the asking prices in the catalog. They are not appraisals and not comparable sales.
A name that is not in the catalog has no listing here. The page for an unlisted name says it is not listed. That sentence is the whole status.
Buy now or Make Offer
- Buy now sends a purchase request at the asking price printed on the listing. You do not type a different number.
- Make Offer sends the amount you type. Catalog names have a private minimum. An offer under that minimum is declined, and the reply does not include the number. No offer count is published.
- Both buttons submit a form. The form asks for your name and email. There are no accounts.
- Neither button charges a card. Card checkout is not open. A request is not a purchase.
Read the trademark note and the rent-to-own line before you choose. Evaluating a domain name goes through those fields. How much is a domain worth explains how to read the asking price. Domain marketplace fees states what is added at checkout.
Payment
Fees: buyer pays escrow and card processing fees. The escrow fee is 2.6% with a $50 minimum (Escrow.com), and a card payment adds 3.05% (Escrow.com). Both are on top of the listed price. The seller receives the listed price minus the Sleekdomains commission. Buyer escrow and card fees sit on top of the listed price. Escrow is not connected, and this is not a guarantee.
The fees are separate from the asking price. The seller commission comes out of the seller side. The pricing page uses the same rates. The email reply is where the price and the payment arrangement are confirmed.
This site does not hold the purchase price. There is no insurance and no transfer guarantee. Escrow.com is the provider this project researched. Escrow is not connected. A request is not buyer protection.
The registrar transfer or push
Sleekdomains is not the registrar. After a price is agreed, the name moves by a transfer between registrars or by a push to another account at the same registrar. The auth code, which account receives the name, who starts the move, and how long it may take are not written. The payout target is within 5 business days after the buyer's payment clears and the registrar transfer is confirmed. This is a target, not a guarantee. The payout method is not defined.
What to check before a domain transfer is the checklist for the email thread. The shorter statement of what this marketplace will and will not do is on Transfers.
What to check before you pay
The listing shows the asking price, the length, the word split, a category, and a trademark note. It does not show WHOIS age, a website history, traffic, or an appraisal. Check those yourself before money moves.
- WHOIS age. Look up the public WHOIS record and read the creation date. This site does not show that date. A long registration is one fact about the name. It does not make the asking price correct.
- Trademark search. The badge on the listing is the level stored for that name. The sentence under it is listing research. On payarmor.com the stored level is High, and the note says to run your own search. Search the mark in each country where you will use the name. The note is not a clearance and not a legal opinion.
- Past use. Look the name up on the Wayback Machine and read what, if anything, was published on it. This site does not copy that history onto the listing, and this guide does not summarize it. Ownership verification on catalog listings says “Not recorded.”
If you are the owner
A buyer can only request a name that is published. To list a .com you can authorize for sale, start on Sell. A submission stays in review until an admin publishes it. Submitting does not put the name on the collection.