The latest Liquid Market Report – Q1 2026 (Edition #39) is now live:
https://report.ggrg.com
Q1: 10 Stats That Tell the Story 📊
- 📈 Public disclosed sales jumped 88.82%, reaching $5.11M, showing a much stronger quarter for reported liquid domain transactions.
- 💸 Escrow.com private sales climbed 80.79% to $25.54M, confirming that most of the action still happens behind the scenes.
- 💼 3L and 4L .coms dominated again across both channels, with 4L leading escrow volume and 3L close behind, reinforcing their status as the core of the liquid market.
- 🏛️ Public sales were far more concentrated, with 3L and 4L .coms making up the bulk of disclosed volume while the rest of the categories remained relatively small.
- 🌐 2L domains remain the most developed category by far, with nearly 30% in active use, a strong sign of deep end-user adoption and long-term scarcity value.
- 🧱 2C domains continue to stand out in development as well, at roughly 18%, putting them surprisingly close to 3L .coms and well ahead of most numeric categories.
- 🌀 Turnover stayed very low overall, but 4N and 2C showedrelatively more movement than the rest, suggesting that trading activity remains selective rather than broad-based.
- 📉 Numeric categories still looked weak on the public side, with very limited disclosed activity in 2N and 3N, while escrow volume was also concentrated mainly in 4N.
- 💹 In Q1, gold was the strongest major benchmark shown at +8.57%, while the 5th percentile of 4L .coms still managed a modest gain of 0.91%, outperforming several mainstream assets.
- 📊 Over the past 12 months, 5th percentile 4L .coms posted a solid 11% gain, while 4L and 5N liquid domains broadly held up better than several major public market benchmarks shown on the chart.
