Eighteen end user domain sales including .si

The list covers eighteen sales. Most are .com, but the spread runs through .de, .fr, .eu, .net, .app and .si. Prices cluster in the low four figures, with one outlier near $48,000. That distribution is typical of end-user transactions: a single buyer with a specific use, paying what the name is worth to that use rather than what a resale market would bear.

Two of the entries are defensive. Surplus.si was bought by the operator of Surplus.com, which tracks government surplus listings. LFG.si went to Limiting Factor Group, which builds power infrastructure for compute and also holds LFGroup.ai. In both cases the buyer already owns the matching string elsewhere and is closing off a country-code variant. .si is Slovenia's country code, and short brand strings are cheap to hold and awkward to lose.

The mechanism behind a defensive purchase is narrow. The buyer appears once, pays a four-figure sum, and does not come back for a portfolio. The price is set against the cost of confusion or a dispute, not against the revenue a developed site would produce. For a holder, that means the exit exists only where the exact string matches a name a company already trades under. It is not a category to accumulate in.

The list's compiler also attributes part of the week's volume to coding assistants making site builds quick. The mechanism is straightforward: when launching a site costs less, more small operators reach the point of needing a name, and the marginal buyer is a four-figure buyer. That supports the middle of the market more than the top of it. It also widens the pool of names that get bought and then lightly used.

The same effect cuts the other way. Cheaper builds mean more purchased names resolve to thin, unfinished or abandoned sites, so a reported sale price is not evidence of a business behind it. The claim that AI tooling is driving sales this year is an impression formed from browsing the buyers' sites, not a measured figure. The list is a sample of what one reporter could confirm, and unconfirmed sales do not appear in it.

What remains open is durability. Whether the .si defensive names resolve to anything, whether the four-figure band holds as more small buyers enter, and whether this year's AI-assisted launches renew, are all unanswered. For anyone holding a name that matches a company's trading name in a country code, the lesson is to price for a single motivated buyer. For anyone reading the list as a market signal, the lesson is that volume at the bottom says more about the cost of launching than about the value of names.