Thoughts

Andrew Miller

September 14, 2025

How Domain Deals Transpire

Last week, I wrote about the start of Q4 and how it often is the best time of year for domain name transactions. This week, I decided it was a good point in time to repeat and expand on my philosophy of how domain transactions transpire. I posted a special Friday edition of Random Sunday Thoughts this week, in article form since it was too long for a Random Sunday Thoughts Post. Thank you for all the texts, DMs and comments. You can read it here, https://lnkd.in/eXK7uxCn. Humbly, for what my expertise and track record, as a founder, domain investor, and buy and sell side advisor is worth, I hope this helps you even a small amount whether you are a domain investor or eventual Founder/CEO client, and I look forward to closing win-win transactions as we close out 2025.

Domain Name Industry M&A

There was some major news this week in our tight knit industry, as a majority stake in Namecheap, Inc was acquired by CVC Capital for $1.5B, https://lnkd.in/eh7FqKA3. A huge congrats to Richard Kirkendall and the Namecheap team. I have a couple of perspectives on this. For one, it is great for the domain name category and asset class when high profile investments are made in domains, such as Ethos Capital into Identity Digital and now CVC here. Secondly, as an investor and Board Member at Atom.com, this was really exciting as a next level valuation is established for a marketplace and registrar centric company in the space. I can confidently say that within hours of the news, Atom has appeared on the radar of many as a leading competitive acquisition and investment candidate. Exciting times and all of it is a strong  driver of the asset value of exact match and category defining domain names.

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