Domain Daily · 18 October 2026
Chain.si Reportedly Sells for $84,000 – The Highest .si Sale Yet
A .si domain has reportedly changed hands for $84,000, which would make it the biggest sale the extension has seen.
DotSi.si posted the sale, saying Chain.si "sold for $84,000 USD" and pointing to domainworth.si/sales as the source. That's one account repeating a figure from a site I haven't looked at myself, so I'm treating this as reported, not confirmed. The registry record shows the domain was first registered back in November 2016 and last changed on 12 October, which fits a recent change of some kind, though the record can't tell me what changed or put a price on it.
If the number holds up, it would top anything I've seen out of .si this year.
The rest of .si's day
NameBio's daily roundup, posted on X and in full on NamePros, listed seven .si sales for the day totalling $68,899, with a $4,999 median. The newer names in that list were Redeem.si and Mobilize.si, both at $5,250, and Rave.si at $4,999; the total also folds in the already-reported Openrouter.si sale at $50,000. NameBio is a sales-data account, not the seller, so these are listed figures, not independently confirmed sales. The same day's overall top sale, for context, was Vyra.com at $50,500, followed by Qda.com at $26,016.
Spaceship put out its own numbers on .si growth on its SellerHub marketplace, saying listings climbed more than 33 times over and completed sales rose almost 17 times between the weeks of 17-23 September and 1-7 October. Spaceship runs a marketplace that sells .si names, so a jump in its own listings and sales is partly a story about Spaceship's own push into the extension, not just buyer demand showing up on its own.
Elsewhere, DomainDan noted that Atom appears to have added a "buy now" option to its appraisal tool when the name being appraised is already listed on Atom's own marketplace. He wasn't sure yet whether it only shows up on cheaper names. Worth watching, since a lot of investors treat Atom's appraisal numbers as a reference point.
My take: the .si figures are still thin on volume even with the growth. Seven sales in a day isn't nothing, but it's not evidence of a breakout either, especially with a chunk of the loudest numbers coming from the marketplaces that sell the names.
Treasury.com moves to a corporate registrar
Away from .si, Elliot Silver reported that Treasury.com has moved from Namecheap to Com Laude, a registrar mostly used by corporates and brands, with nameservers now pointing to AWS. He spotted the move via DomainTools and domainIQ. The domain sits behind Whois privacy and isn't resolving to a site yet.
Com Laude plus AWS nameservers usually points to a company setting something up rather than a flip, but Elliot didn't name who's behind it, and I won't guess either. Worth watching what, if anything, turns up there.
Also on my radar
- Atom's Domain Legacy: Atom announced a free tool for passing domains on to someone you trust if something happens to you, with check-ins and renewals built in. Atom also sells the service, so it doubles as a pitch, but estate planning for a domain portfolio is a real gap for plenty of owners.
- ICANN87 continues in Bali: sessions this week covered how domain names and IP addresses resolve, with community meetings running through the conference.
Would you pay $84,000 for a .si domain, and does Atom's buy-now button change how much you trust its appraisals? Let me know.
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