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[NameBio @NameBio]

I did a deep dive into our 290 LTO deals at @afternic and discovered some valuable insights concerning cancellations, early payoffs, and trends.

📉 Cancellation Rates

Our raw cancellation rate was 26.9%, but that understates risk because it counts active deals as non-cancellations.

A better number is the resolved cancellation rate: cancellations divided by completed LTOs.

Historically, among our LTOs that have reached an outcome, about 59% completed successfully and 41% were cancelled.

⏱️ Cancellation Timing

Cancellations are heavily front-loaded. Obviously the more payments they make the less likely they are to walk away at the next payment. But at what point are they really committed?

Of our 78 cancellations, 28 (36%) made only one payment, 40 out of 78 (51%) made at most two payments, and 63 out of 78 (81%) made at most six payments.

Once a deal avoids cancelling after only one payment, its resolved success rate rises to about 70%. Once a deal avoids the early churn window and gets to around six payments, the resolved success rate rises to around 86-88%.

📆 Cancellation and Term Length

Most of our LTOs (87%) were in the 12-23 month range, so I'm not sure how statistically significant this data is. But there was a pretty clear pattern that the longer the length of the LTO, the higher the raw cancellation rate was.

The raw cancellation for LTOs less than one year was 25%, for 12-23 months it was 25.3%, for 24-35 months it was 31.2%, and for 36+ months it was 53.8%.

You might think the longer the term, the more manageable the monthly payments are, and the more likely they'll be to stick around. But in this dataset, longer terms were clearly riskier. Personally, I’d be cautious offering terms longer than 24 months.

💳 Cancellation and Monthly Payment

Looking only at 12-month LTOs, the raw cancellation rate was essentially the same for sub-$200 monthly payments vs $200-299 payments vs $300-499 payments. But interestingly, once the monthly payments reached $500+ the raw cancellation rate dropped by more than 50%.

That's somewhat intuitive though, someone committing to a $500+ monthly payment is probably more serious and well-funded.

🤔 Confusing Cancellations

Three buyers cancelled with only one payment left, which seems pretty unbelievable.

In 8 cases, a cancelled LTO later sold again shortly afterward — 6 through LTO and 2 through BIN. The data doesn’t include buyer identity, but given normal domain sell-through rates and the short timing, these were very likely buyers coming back after missing a payment or regretting the cancellation.

⚡ Early Payoffs

17% of completed LTOs were paid off early. Nearly half of early payoffs happened close to the finish line, but of the early payers, 32% paid off after only 1–2 payments.

📈 LTOs By Year

2023: 13 (53 annualized)
2024: 106
2025: 114
2026: 57 (137 annualized)

We're seeing a steady trend upward as LTOs stack up.

🎁 Wrap Up

I hope this helps you get a better picture of what you might experience if you enable LTOs.

The interesting takeaways for me were how heavily front-loaded LTO churn is, how longer terms reduce your odds of success, how little the monthly payment amount affects the odds except at the high end, and how more than 10% of cancelled LTOs still ended up in a sale shortly after.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

10 air squats every 45 min ✅

[Youssef @Aladey]

💡 Today’s Domaining Tip 💡

One of the strongest structures in domaining is:
👉 2-letter company abbreviation + powerful keyword + .com

Why this works so well 👇

🔹 2 letters = instant corporate feel
They look like a real company acronym (AB, GT, LX, HQ, etc.)

🔹 Keyword = clarity & trust
The keyword tells you exactly what the company does

🔹 .com = global credibility
Still the default for serious businesses & investors

🔥 Strong examples:
•https://t.co/mI1lcABl1u → AB could stand for Advanced Bio, Alpha Balance, Atlas Group
•https://t.co/IXLeAZSzAh → Global Tech / Growth Trust
•https://t.co/5PsNAMH390 → premium, enterprise-ready branding
•https://t.co/wxOKrRrLWO → authority + institutional trust
•https://t.co/TPisvS8klv → medical, clinics, healthcare groups

Why startups & corporates love this combo 💼
•Feels established, even for a new company
•Perfect for holding companies, groups, and expansions
•Easy to rebrand or explain (“AB stands for…”)
•Works across multiple countries & languages

💰 From a domaining POV:
•These domains are scarce
•They age extremely well
•High-end buyers often prefer this over invented brand names

📌 Domainer mindset:
If the keyword is strong and the 2 letters can logically stand for a company name, you’re holding a long-term asset, not a flip.

This is one of the safest premium patterns in .com domaining.

[Kate Buckley @katebuckley1]

We're assisting clients with an acquisition and are seeking a domain name that tracks to the following criteria:

-ONE word English Dictionary .COM or .AI ONLY
-3 - 8 characters MAX
-Positive to neutral connotation/meaning
-Conveys: Act, Build, Collaborate, Create, Design, Orchestrate, Precision, Prototype, Speed, Transform

The budget is up to $500K for the right domain.

Please send any candidates matching the brief with pricing to: [email protected]
NOTE: DO NOT POST IN COMMENTS; DO NOT SPAM

[Bob Hawkes @AGreatDomain]

This pair of articles I published @NamePros Blog a couple of years ago cover a lot of key ideas. Part 1:
✅essentials checklist,
✅business fit, OpenCorporates, CrunchBase
✅dotDB + registration data
✅Google logo search
✅TMs
✅fit with extension https://t.co/XixuOWViBt

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Most people might miss the biggest benefit of sauna

You need to get really really hot…

Your core body temperature needs to hit 102.4°F (39°C).

For reference, a fever is anything above 100.4°F (38°C)

So I swallowed a temperature monitoring pill. It goes through your digestive tract and precisely measures your internal temperature every 30 seconds.

When your core body temperature hits the goal of 102°F, your body releases these proteins (heat shock proteins - HSPs) that clean up your body’s debris.

I was curious what time my body hits this goal because up until now, I’ve been doing 20 mins of 200°F dry sauna.

… it turns out it takes 31 minutes

It feels like you’re dying.

I didn't expert such pain and panic.

Before this experiment, I did over 200 sauna sessions at 200°F for 20 min.

This means I likely never achieved the heat shock protein (HSP) threshold at 102.4°F (39°C), which deprived me of so much sauna-health goodness.

If your sauna doesn’t heat up to temperatures allowing your core temperature to reach 102.4°F (39°C) or you struggle to tolerate heat, do not be discouraged. The dry sessions I did at 200°F (93°C) for 20 min still showed incredibly health benefits.

My previous 20 min sessions still showed:

1) 10+ yr reduction of my vascular age

2) 87% reduction of microplastics

3) detox of environmental toxins

4) fertility marker improvement

Will report back once I have results on this new protocol…

[Matt Lucero @MattLucero_]

I'm excited to announce I recently acquired the domain anevo(.)com for $13,000

The first question you might be asking is... why pay that much for a domain?

...let alone a word that doesn't "mean" anything

Although it is not likely to generate us a ROI today, this week, or this month, I have a long term vision for my company and team & figure this is another step in the direction of building a proper brand

When I first started this business, I didn't have any real track record of success and didn't have the money to get a proper domain

I settled for anevomarketing(.)com - while having a long domain or having the word "marketing" in the name ultimately "doesn't matter" I just didn't love the look of how long it was and didn't feel like it represented our brand

I also promised that when I hit a revenue milestone that I'd splurge and get a nice watch - when I hit it (and have now well exceeded it) it just didn't "feel" right when I could invest more into the business/company/team

While "anevo" might not mean anything to anyone, it was the name I picked when I started and I always wanted to have the clean 5 letter .com to accompany it

I see this as a bigger bet on the vision & I'm happy with it even if it does nothing, but I see this as another deposit into our brand that will pay dividends

Next step is to rebuild a proper site to along with it (in progress)

--

Also not used to sharing numbers / moves like this, but I'm sharing this in an attempt to "build in public" more after watching a recent YT vid from the Bloom CEO Greg LaVecchia & felt inspired lol

Appreciate you all - have another exciting announcement in the next few hours 👀

[Youssef @Aladey]

💡 Today's Domaining Tip 💡

A tool called Mapileads has been trending lately on X and for good reason.

It got so much attention (and traffic) that it actually went into maintenance mode 😅

For domainers doing outbound, this is a very interesting scraper with a clean UX/UI. If you don’t have dev skills, tools like this can save you a lot of time when prospecting leads and finding potential buyers.

I tested it yesterday and tried to made a video about it today… but success hit fast and the platform is currently under maintenance.

👉 Takeaway: Always keep an eye on emerging tools. The ones that break under success are often the ones worth watching.

Stay sharp.

Like & RT if you want me to keep doing this 👇

[Atom.com @atomHQ]

Domain Hunter is now open to all sellers 🧭

We’re also introducing Featured Lists — curated domains across GoDaddy, Dynadot, Atom auctions, closeouts, wholesale, and available hand-reg, ranked using AI and marketplace data.

Updated daily with fresh opportunities.

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[DN Journal @DNJournal]

https://t.co/ruEa7Qr2Oa Brings $1.2 Million in Record-Breaking Sale at Sedo as AI Boom Continues to Send Domain Prices Into the Stratosphere: https://t.co/WFPikoNkCo

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

A supplement is shown to mimic some of the benefits of fasting - reduced hunger, LDL cholesterol & fasting glucose. Here's the recipe and what the components do:
Nicotinamide (250 mg)
Micronized Palmitoylethanolamide (600 mg),
Oleoylethanolamide (400 mg)
Spermidine (8 mg)

[Top Domains @DomainAnswers]

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[Top Domains @DomainAnswers]

@synozeer @spaceship Wow, congrats! 🎉

[Adam Maysonet @synozeer]

My biggest sale to date. Hold time was just under 4 months. Buyer purchased it through @spaceship's registration path.

[Cody Schneider @codyschneider]

buy the .com

just literally, always buy the .com

there is 30 years of trust built into the .com

you get to piggyback on that from day one

just buy the .com

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

I've spent 2.54 BILLION tokens perfecting OpenClaw.

The use cases I discovered have changed the way I live and work.

...and now I'm sharing them with the world.

Here are 21 use cases I use daily:

0:00 Intro
0:50 What is OpenClaw?
1:35 MD Files
2:14 Memory System
3:55 CRM System
7:19 Fathom Pipeline
9:18 Meeting to Action Items
10:46 Knowledge Base System
13:51 X Ingestion Pipeline
14:31 Business Advisory Council
16:13 Security Council
18:21 Social Media Tracking
19:18 Video Idea Pipeline
21:40 Daily Briefing Flow
22:23 Three Councils
22:57 Automation Schedule
24:15 Security Layers
26:09 Databases and Backups
28:00 Video/Image Gen
29:14 Self Updates
29:56 Usage & Cost Tracking
30:15 Prompt Engineering
31:15 Developer Infrastructure
32:06 Food Journal

[TBPN @tbpn]

This new Founders Fund-backed startup had to go to war with a country over their domain name - before it even launched.

CEO @samdblond breaks down the legal battle:

“Shortly after we acquired the domain, we got this hate mail from the escrow company holding the domain that the government of Monaco had filed what’s called a UDRP dispute against us.”

“They made all sorts of what turned out to be unsubstantiated trademark claims. We got legal representation. This was a couple-months-long process that required all sorts of evidence and more, and we ended up winning the case.”

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Peter Steinberger (@steipete), creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that has taken the Internet by storm, with now over 180,000 stars on GitHub.

This was a truly mind-blowing, inspiring, and fun conversation!

It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:30 - Introduction
5:36 - OpenClaw origin story
8:55 - Mind-blowing moment
18:22 - Why OpenClaw went viral
22:19 - Self-modifying AI agent
27:04 - Name-change drama
44:15 - Moltbook saga
52:34 - OpenClaw security concerns
1:01:14 - How to code with AI agents
1:32:09 - Programming setup
1:38:52 - GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6
1:47:59 - Best AI agent for programming
2:09:59 - Life story and career advice
2:13:56 - Money and happiness
2:17:49 - Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta
2:34:58 - How OpenClaw works
2:46:17 - AI slop
2:52:20 - AI agents will replace 80% of apps
3:00:57 - Will AI replace programmers?
3:12:57 - Future of OpenClaw community

[Darpan @darpanmunjal]

Just analyzed root words that drove the most sales in 2025 on https://t.co/qnMkhaY8PJ.

Beyond volume alone, average selling price is a useful signal of where buyer appetite is strongest.

AI, pay, and fund show the most pricing power.

[Rueben Hewitt @FitFastCoach]

Dana White on the power of fasting... after Gary Brecka saved his life: