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Because of the risk of non-payment or non-delivery of the domain names, it is also often necessary to use a trusted third party when buying or selling a valuable domain name. Most domain brokerage agencies offer domain buying and selling services but also domain appraisals and strategic consulting.
Domain brokerage firms are often structures managed by domain investors and designed to sell their own domain names, but also those of partners and customers, to improve the profitability of their business.
The world leader in domain name transactions is the American company Escrow.com. Sedo also offers this service, known as escrow, as do various registrars and law firms.
Founded by domain name broker Andrew Rosener, MediaOptions.com is one of the most widely used brokerage company for premium domain names. It publishes a catalogue of Dot COM domains on its website, usually without a list price.
Other major brokerage agencies include the U.S.-based DomainHoldings, Brannans, Defining.com, Saw.com and DomainAdvisors, as well as India's Namekart, Canada's DomainAgents, Australia's NameCorp.
Unlike most competitors, Lumis concentrate solely on acquisitions for its clients.
The Chinese companies 62.com founded by Raymond Liu and DN.com from Jack Dai are specialized in the Chinese market.
Other brokers have chosen niches such as GGRG.com, run by the Italian domainer Giuseppe Graziano, which does a lot of business with China and specialises in liquid domains, i.e. short domains made up of letters, numbers or compounds.
Founded by Monte Cahn, RightoftheDot offers a consultancy and auction service for the acquisition of domain names, mainly in new TLDs, or auctioning and selling new TLDs themselves, but demand is still weak.
Jordi Gasull 's NameAgency and other small-scale structures enable well-known domain name investors such as the Booth Brothers (BQDN), Ammar Kubba and Ali Zandi to supplement the income from the sale of their own domain names.