Domain Daily · 19 October 2026

Wellness.net Sells for $146,000 – While .si's Hand-Reg Window Looks Shut

A six-figure .net sale led a quiet Sunday for reported sales, and .si spent the day being talked about more than it was being bought.

By Maggi Ferguson

NameBio posted that Sunday's reported total came to $654,000, with Wellness.net top of the list at $146,000 through GoDaddy. The same report on NamePros counts it among 627 sales of $100 or more that day. That's a data account's tally, not the seller's word, so I'm giving the figure as reported rather than as fact. The registry record shows Wellness.net's entry last changed on 14 October, a few days before the reported sale date, which fits a deal being worked through, though there's no transfer logged in the record itself.

Further down the same list: DistributedCompute.com at $32,000 through DomainGrid, 7041.com at $19,426 through Dynadot, Mannequin.com at $18,255 through GoDaddy, and two .si names, FN.si at $11,124 through Sedo and Thread.si at $10,000 through Spaceship. Same caveat applies to all of them: NameBio's numbers, not confirmed by the sellers.

.si: a lot of talk, not many hand-regs left

The .si conversation has shifted from "how do I find one" to "what do I do with the ones already gone."

Adrian, who posts as NZ Domainer, said he only picked up one .si name the day before and reckons hand-reg opportunities are largely tapped out, then asked his followers if anyone had found more. Kalin Karakehayov took the opposite view, saying .si growth isn't slowing and that end-user sales are climbing. Kalin posts a lot about .si and clearly has a stake in the category doing well, so read that optimism with that in mind. Domayn Kapital argued that the top three tiers of .si names are already gone and that the next phase is end-user sales rather than fresh registrations – one investor's read, not anything verifiable.

Not everyone is comfortable with how the rush looks on the ground. TLD Investors posted a short list of crude .si registrations as a jab at indiscriminate hand-regging, and Domain Gang wrote up the wider pattern as a "cybersquatting scavenger hunt." A smaller example of the same thing: Ishmilly said someone registered the .si version of their own handle and tried to sell it back to them, despite Ishmilly already owning the matching .com.

My take: when a ccTLD's hand-reg window closes this fast, you get genuine end-user demand and a wave of names registered purely to resell to the people whose names they match, landing in the same news cycle as if they were one trend. They aren't.

If you want more than social posts on this, DomainNameWire.com's latest podcast episode is billed as a look behind the scenes at the .si registry itself.

Also on my radar

A quiet flip: Domain Gang reported that Affiliator.com sold on Sedo for $3,000 and was then moved on quickly via Escrow.com. No resale figure was given, and the registry record shows the domain's details last changed on 15 October, which fits the timing in the piece.
Mike Mann sold CreativeComputer.com: Mike Mann said he sold it for $14,888. That's his own sale, in his own words, so I'm treating it as firsthand. The registry record shows the listing changed on 19 October, the same day as his post.
Cheap UK names: eUKhost is running selected .uk domains at £1.99 ex VAT for the first year through October. Check the renewal price before registering on the strength of a first-year discount.
ICANN87 wrapped its third day in Bali, with sessions on registrant recourse and DNS abuse policy. No numbers attached yet, but worth watching if your registrar has people there.

Is .si still a hand-reg story for you, or has it already turned into an end-user and resale market? Let me know.