Domain Market Intelligence Weekly: April 20–26, 2026

Domain Trading Intelligence

Top Sales This Week

Ten highest publicly reported domain name sales between April 20 and April 26, 2026. The .com market produced two standout transactions, SuperApp.com at $200,000 and Amnesia.com at $130,000, while Atom.com placed three names in the top six, the strongest single-platform week the venue has had this month.

Notable Transaction Details

SuperApp.com sold for $200,000 on Sedo, the week’s largest reported transaction. The buyer has not been publicly disclosed at the time of writing. The “super app” pattern, a single mobile interface bundling messaging, payments, commerce, and services, is widely used in the WeChat and Grab ecosystems and has been gaining traction in Western fintech and AI-agent product roadmaps.

Amnesia.com sold for $130,000 at Atom.com. The same name last traded for $5,400 on Afternic in February 2009, which puts this week’s price roughly 24 times higher over the seventeen-year hold, broadly consistent with the long-arc appreciation of single-word dictionary .com inventory. April 22 was the strongest single day of the week for tracked $100+ sales, with Amnesia.com accounting for the majority of that day’s dollar volume.

Atom.com placed three names in the top six. Kai.xyz at $85,000, Lumr.com at $34,000, and Amnesia.com at $130,000 together produced roughly $249,000 in disclosed venue revenue, the strongest week the platform has had in this report’s coverage. Kai.xyz at $85,000 is also one of the highest .xyz secondary-market results of the year to date, with the buyer not publicly disclosed. Sedo led aggregate dollar volume, with SuperApp.com, Persecuted.com, and dfnz.com producing roughly $293,856 between them.

Industry News

ICANN’s next new gTLD application window opens April 30, 2026, two days from publication. The 105-day window runs through August 12, with an evaluation fee of $227,000 per application. This is the first major new gTLD round since 2012 and is expected to bring brand TLDs (.google, .bmw, etc.), community strings, and new generic extensions. Eligible applicants from underserved regions can apply for up to a 75 percent fee reduction through ICANN’s Applicant Support Program. (ICANN, ICANN press release)

Trump signed an executive order on April 18 directing the FDA and DEA to fast-track psychedelic drug research, with ibogaine named twice in the order text. The order allocates $50 million through ARPA-H to match state investment in psychedelic mental-health research and creates a Right-to-Try pathway for eligible patients. The downstream effect on domain registrations is reflected in this week’s emerging-keywords table. (White House, CNN)

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Oman opened .om, .com.om, and .co.om to foreign companies without a local trademark requirement. The change drops the prior rule that domain names had to match the registering company’s name, broadly aligning Oman with mainstream gTLD registration practice. Brand-protection teams with Gulf exposure should re-check coverage. (CSC Weekly Launch Guide)

Domain Registration Intelligence

Weekly Registration Overview

New-registration volume for major gTLDs over the April 20 to 26 window, with 7-day and 14-day moving averages as of April 27. Data via DomainKits Trends.

.com extended its recovery into a third week, with the 7-day moving average (133,361) holding marginally above the 14-day (133,322). The weekly peak was April 20 at 150,132 registrations, with April 22 also strong at 147,963. The familiar weekend dip reappeared on schedule: April 25 fell to 103,771 and April 26 to 98,386, the second consecutive week with sub-100K Sunday readings.

.org gave back some of the prior month’s strength. The 7d MA (8,745) now sits below the 14d MA (8,945), a clean break from the four-week positive crossover noted in earlier editions. April 22 posted 9,860 new .org registrations, the week’s strongest single-day figure but still below the same day a week prior. .net continued to weaken, with the 7d MA (6,111) sitting more than 600 below the 14d MA, the largest negative gap since March. .xyz remained volatile: April 21 spiked to 16,270 (the third such spike in three weeks) before cooling to 3,922 by April 26, and the week’s 7d MA (7,270) is now well below the 14d (8,239), suggesting the spike pattern is producing a softer baseline rather than a durable lift.

Hot Keywords in Domain Registrations

Top 5 keywords by 28-day registration volume across all gTLDs, with week-over-week (WoW) momentum comparing the most recent 7-day period (W4) to the prior period (W3):

The headline reading is mixed. “my” and “hub” extended last week’s strength with double-digit gains broadly distributed across registrars, while “ai”, “group”, and “pro” each gave back a modest amount of last week’s recovery. “ai” cooling to -2.4% after +7.2% the prior week is the cleanest mean-reversion in the table and consistent with the cooling AI registration narrative also visible in the .ai sales-price slope.

Notable movers outside the top 5: “solutions” climbed 22.2% from 4,986 to 6,093 (W4), placing it as one of the cleanest gainers in the long tail. “real” jumped 45.7% from 1,914 to 2,789 with GoDaddy at 17.5% and a Porkbun nameserver concentration above the table average, suggesting a single end-use ramp rather than diversified multi-party activity. “tech” cooled to -6.5% (7,002 from 7,487), and “capital” retreated 39.3% from 3,971 to 2,409, the sharpest drop in the top 30, fully reversing last week’s 33.7% surge. “bet” also gave back ground, falling 25.5% from 5,877 to 4,379 after five consecutive weeks of growth.

Emerging Keywords

Keywords with sudden registration spikes in the last 7 days, assessed for whether the spike reflects multi-party demand (genuine market signal) or concentrated activity (less actionable).

Spotlight: Reading the “ibogaine” Spike

The catalyst is durable: Trump’s April 18 executive order names ibogaine twice and creates a Right-to-Try pathway. The .com registration burst, however, is concentrated. Of 919 ibogaine.com names registered April 18 to 27, 667 of them (72.6 percent) landed on April 20 alone, and registrar share sits above 98 percent at a single registrar. By our three-bar independence test, the .com layer fails on time and registrar distribution; only the 78-extension utility-TLD cohort (ibogaine.clinic, ibogaine.healthcare, ibogaine.now, and so on) is mechanically multi-channel.

The keyword is worth continuing to monitor as the policy news flow unfolds. Readers can browse DomainKits New Registrations and filter by keyword to track the shape of the market week by week.

Premium Domain Intelligence

We observed measurable movement across premium .com domains this week, with the strongest multi-TLD footprints clustering around six-letter to eight-letter dictionary names. Two distinct patterns emerged: aged dictionary or brand-tied .com names entering the expiration cycle (loopring.com being the most notable example this week), and a steady drumbeat of drop-catches with mid-tier multi-TLD registration footprints.

Notable Expirations (5 to 10 letters, .com)

The notable name in the set is loopring.com, a 25-year-old .com originally registered in April 2001. The domain entered the expiration cycle on April 25 from TurnCommerce/NameBright and is now parked on standard expired-pool nameservers. Loopring is the brand of an established Layer 2 rollup project on Ethereum, and loopring.org and other related extensions remain live, so the lapse appears to be a registration-renewal event rather than a project shutdown.

New Registrations and Drop-Catches (5 to 10 letters, .com)

The strongest drop-catch this week is aicorner.com at DropCatch, with the name’s prefix appearing across 19 distinct TLDs. The pattern matches a number of “ai-” prefixed dictionary compounds that have been actively pursued at auction in 2026, broadly tracking the .ai aftermarket. warmcare.com at Gname with a 20-TLD footprint suggests possible end-user interest in the elder-care or hospitality segment, though no public buyer has been disclosed.

For a complete view of premium domain expirations, drop-catches, and ownership transitions across the .com namespace, see DomainKits Domain Changes.

Weekly Insight

This week pulled in two directions at once. The Trading Intelligence section produced two of the strongest .com results of the month (SuperApp.com and Amnesia.com), .ai continued to deliver mid-five-figure end-user transactions (Productivity.ai), and Atom.com placed three names in the top six. On the registration side, .com extended its third consecutive week of marginally positive momentum but .net and .org both cooled, and the .xyz spike pattern continues to produce a softer baseline rather than a durable lift. Aggregate volume is broadly healthy; trend acceleration is not.

The week’s loudest policy event was the April 18 executive order on psychedelics, but the registration burst it triggered does not survive a structural read. Of 919 ibogaine.com names registered April 18 to 27, 667 of them (72.6 percent) landed on April 20 alone, with the remaining nine days producing only 252 names combined. Time concentration that tight is structurally consistent with bulk registration rather than broad multi-party demand. The 78-extension utility-TLD cohort is mechanically multi-channel and may still reflect category positioning, but it is a separate cohort from the .com burst.

Looking forward, two events bracket the next two weeks. ICANN’s new gTLD application window opens April 30, the first major round since 2012, which will reshape the long-tail TLD landscape over the next 18 to 24 months. And Sedo’s weekly chart will offer a read on whether SuperApp.com’s $200K result represents a one-week spike or the leading edge of broader dictionary-word .com activity. We will track both in next week’s edition.