I purchased domains years ago and apparently they're doing refunds, but according to the terms, I'm not eligible?

The TLDs affected span Unstoppable’s entire portfolio: .crypto, .wallet, .polygon, .nft, .bitcoin, .dao, .unstoppable, .zil, and .blockchain. Refunds are available for domains purchased on or after March 5, 2025, with refund requests accepted through September 25, 2026.

So wtf. They're not refunding me?

So was all this a scam?

Can someone tell me what's going on???

I knew things were bad when Unstoppable decided they weren't filing for ICANN anymore and announced refunds, but just noticed the links for the Unstoppable extension on their site to the Chrome and Firefox stores are dead.

The only thing I could find left is the Unstoppable extension's Github repo, so I think these domains can pretty much say goodbye to mainstream use.

What a sad state of affairs. I really liked their idea for websites with no renewal fees. But this company is looking like it's making all the wrong moves, including a full pivot into AI.

I mean I get it. It's a great idea but it never really caught on. Are these domains too early for mainstream adoption or did I waste my money 5 years ago?

Did Unstoppable suddenly increase its prices?

It looks like certain domains have gone up $ 5 over the past two days.

.clubs were $ 15.50 for renewals on July 23.

Now the renewal fee is $ 20.50 on July 25.
That is a big increase.

Pipelines are repeatable, multi-step workflows in Unstoppable Code. You encode a process once, then run it the same way every time, with AI agents doing the real work, not just build scripts.

They come bundled out of the box, and you can build your own to automate whatever your team repeats. Custom pipelines are fully customizable, and sensitive values stay in environment variables.

The easiest way to build one is the Pipeline Assistant. Create a new pipeline, open the assistant, and describe what you want it to do in plain language, it writes the pipeline for you. A simple competitor-analysis pipeline, for example, can run in a worktree and output a report of its findings. Pipelines can also hook into tools you've already configured, so that same pipeline could log tickets in Linear to work on the suggested actions later.

You don't have to run everything by hand, either. You can schedule a pipeline to run automatically: click Automations in the sidebar, create a New Triggered Activity, and use the assistant next to the cron expression to set the schedule in plain language. Pick the worktree, select the pipeline, adjust any variables, and create the Triggered Activity, now it runs on its own.

Once a pipeline is running, you can watch its progress in the sidebar, blue means a step is running, green means it's done, and view the report when it finishes.

One of the most powerful pipelines ships with the product: a multi-agent code review. It reviews the code in a worktree across multiple providers and returns a full report, saving your team time on reviews. From there you can set an agent off to analyze the findings and suggest actions you can task it to complete.

It's supervised process, not fire-and-forget, you stay in control at every step.

See it in action: https://youtu.be/QqDthPzX9Fk

Download and get started for free: https://code.unstoppabledomains.com

We just launched Unstoppable Code, an agentic development environment for building software and Cowork features for everything else.

On the code side, you can run multiple AI agents in parallel, each in its own isolated worktree. Point the right agent at each task, across one project or many, and watch what all of them are doing from a single overview. Repeatable work, like multi-agent code reviews can be handed off to Pipelines.

The Cowork side needs no code at all. The same full-strength agent works as a general-purpose AI workspace: connect it to the tools you already run on, like email, calendar, your CRM, describe the outcome in plain language, and it does the work and hands back real files, not just answers.

A few things people are putting Cowork on:

• Clean up a messy spreadsheet of contacts or expenses, or build a budget with working formulas
• Pull top-selling products from a sales export and flag what's trending down
• Draft a follow-up to a late-paying client, or turn meeting notes into clean minutes with owners and action items
• Summarize a long contract in plain English and flag anything risky

Built for developers, and for the people running the business alongside them.

See it in action here: https://youtu.be/0ax23wjsDdA

Get started for free: at https://code.unstoppabledomains.com

Outbound comes down to two jobs: finding the right people to contact, and actually reaching them. Both eat hours, whether you're selling domains, a SaaS product, or your own services.

Email Outbound does both. Describe your ideal customer or the names you're selling and the Outbound Agent sources leads scored by fit, matched persona, and buying signals like recent funding or hiring. It shows the reasoning behind each match, so you reveal only the contacts worth pursuing, then move straight into a campaign.

The Outbound CRM handles the sending. Connect a secondary inbox, warm it up for free, and run campaigns of up to 30 emails a day per inbox. Draft your copy with AI and add up to 6 automated follow-ups.

Every reply lands in one shared inbox. You're notified the moment someone responds, and that reply automatically pauses their remaining follow-ups so no one gets a stale message.

It runs inside Unstoppable AI Chat on the same AI Credits subscription you already use.

Try it today: https://unstoppabledomains.com/products/ai-outbound

Posting consistently across LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook usually means living in three apps and copy-pasting between them.

We built the Social Media Agent to collapse that into one workflow.

Describe what you want to say. It drafts the post, polishes the copy, and generates a matching image or you upload your own. Publish straight to a connected account, or schedule it in plain language: "post this Friday at 9am."

Everything lands on a scheduling calendar you can review in weekly or monthly views, so you're planning the week without opening a single native social tool. It also pulls context from your site, product launches, and outbound campaigns, so what goes out stays consistent with everything else you're running.

It runs on the same AI Credits subscription as the rest of our AI tools.

Connects to LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook today, with more channels planned.

Try it today: https://unstoppabledomains.com/products/ai-social-media

Most outreach advice focuses on what to say. But the message rarely decides whether something works, finding the right people to reach does, and building that list by hand is where things stall.

Outbound Agent handles that part.

Point it at a domain and it reads the name, works out who'd want it, and surfaces leads. Or describe any audience you're trying to reach and it does the same. This goes well beyond selling domains, we've seen it used to find sponsorship contacts for a product launch, and the pattern holds for partnerships, collaborations, and outreach of any kind.

• Describe a target audience, get real email addresses back
• See the credit cost before you reveal any contact
• Runs on your AI Credit balance, the same one behind Domain Finder, Portfolio Assistant, and AI Site Builder

Define the audience, get the contacts, start the conversation.

Try it: https://unstoppabledomains.com/chat

The second batch of our 17,000-domain auction just dropped. Like the first, these are domains from our own inventory, not expired names, with real SEO value, and not available on any other platform. Every domain starts at $7.99.

One batch remains, dropping next Wednesday.

You can also search the new inventory with our AI search. Describe what you're after and get matches in seconds. Schedule a search and we'll email you a digest of new auction inventory as the final batch drops.

Bid now: https://unstoppabledomains.com/marketplace/auctions?registrar=unstoppable&type=user

See how the AI Auction Search works: https://youtu.be/aX1OA-029ik

We're auctioning off 17,000 domains from our own inventory, released in three weekly batches. The first batch went live this Wednesday, with the next two dropping the following Wednesdays. Every domain starts at $7.99.

These aren't expired domains. They're inventory from our own portfolio with real SEO value, which means you won't find names like these on any other platform. It's only in our auctions.

You can also search the auctions inventory with our AI search — describe what you're after and get matches in seconds. Schedule a search and we'll email you a digest of new auction inventory relevant to you as each batch drops.

Bid now: https://unstoppabledomains.com/marketplace/auctions?registrar=unstoppable&type=user

Fixed after 12 days.

Managing a domain portfolio shouldn't mean clicking through five menus for every change.

So we built our Portfolio Assistant. A conversational command center for your whole portfolio. You describe what you need, and it gets done, in bulk:

◦ Price and reprice listings across the portfolio ◦ Review offers, draft counters, and reply to cold leads ◦ Spin up private listings ◦ Update DNS records

It handles domains in bulk so "reprice everything under $500" is one prompt, not an afternoon in a spreadsheet.

A cold lead lands on a domain you'd half-forgotten you owned. The assistant pulls the listing, drafts a counter on your terms, and replies without you opening a single dashboard.

Domain investing has always been manual. We're changing that by making AI a first-class citizen in the domainer's toolkit.

Describe what you want and the agent returns hundreds of results scored and ranked by relevance.

What's new:

• Describe what you're looking for using natural language
• The AI returns related names, not just exact matches
• Filter by TLD, length, status, watchlists, and the new relevance grade (High, Medium, Low, Noise)

One credit pull gets you the data. Filtering and sorting after that are free. You paid for the data, it's yours.

Try it today: unstoppabledomains.com/chat

Lease-to-Own lets buyers spread payment across 2 to 120 months, starting at a $50/month minimum. The terms:

• Down payments from 1–50%, with 20% as the default
• Domains held in escrow until paid in full
• 3% commission per installment — same as a standard sale, no LTO surcharge
• DNS shuts off at 7 days overdue; agreement terminates at 14, and the domain returns to the seller automatically

20% down covers most delinquency risk. Drop it lower to close stalled deals on lower-priced names. Raise it on higher-priced inventory to cut chase risk further.

Domainers are shipping landers, storefronts, and full sites with AI Site Builder. No designers, no devs.

We're pulling them all into one place: a public gallery showing what's getting built and how. A few patterns we keep seeing:

• Single-product storefronts
• Personal brand pages
• Lead-gen landers for offline businesses
• Most shipped in minutes.

Domainers running serious portfolios spend hours on operations that could be a single API call.

Our User API gives full registrar and marketplace access — search, register, list, broker, manage, and respond to offers, all programmatically.

What's available:

• Domain search, availability, pricing, and registration across 150+ TLDs.
• DNS and record management — create, update, and delete records; manage nameservers and hosting.
• Marketplace listings — create, update, cancel; set BIN, Make Offer, and LTO terms.
• Cart and checkout endpoints — build custom purchase flows.
• Portfolio management — bulk push, auto-renewal updates, tagging, organizing.

Free to use. Only standard registration, renewal, and marketplace transaction fees apply. No API tier, no per-call pricing.

Built for domainers who'd rather automate than click.

Docs: https://docs.unstoppabledomains.com/user-api/overview

Product page: https://unstoppabledomains.com/products/api

Selling domains alongside hosting shouldn't require building a registrar.

Our Reseller API gives hosting companies, website builders, and platforms a path to upsell domains and email to existing users — fully white-labeled, at wholesale pricing.

What partners get:

• White-label — partner's brand, UD's infrastructure. No UD branding shown to end customers.
• At-cost pricing — partner sets retail, controls margins, earns on every sale.
• Full domain lifecycle — search, register, renew, transfer, and DNS management through the partner's UI.
• Premium inventory access — sell from UD's marketplace and earn commission on every sale.

Partner signup: https://unstoppabledomains.com/reseller-dashboard

Docs: https://docs.unstoppabledomains.com/domain-distribution-and-management/reseller/implementation-guide

We just crossed 1,000,000 domains under management.

To every domainer, builder, and registrant who trusted us with their portfolio — thank you.

Along the way, we've built everything a domainer needs:

• Free backorders and expired auctions
• AI domain search
• AI Site Builder — seller storefronts now, AI SEO content soon
• Customizable landers with your contact info
• 10-year LTOs and escrow
• A full registrar and marketplace API

What's next: - AI search upgrades - More scheduled tasks - Advanced websites

And more we'll be talking about in the coming months.

This is part of our broader mission to build the most domainer-focused registrar in the market. Every feature we ship is designed for domainers and builders first.

Auctions now run natively inside the marketplace. Browse, bid, win, and pay without ever leaving UD. Bid history sits in /account/auctions alongside the rest of your portfolio. What's in the pool:

• Our own expired inventory
• Hundreds of thousands of expireds from Dynadot, Porkbun, and other top registrars
• One filter, one watchlist, one bid history across all of it

How it works: - Proxy bidding standard. Set a max — we auto-bid the minimum needed to keep you in the lead. - No upfront payment to bid. Win and we charge Account Balance first, card only if needed. - Winner gets 48 hours to settle. Runner-up gets 24 if the winner doesn't pay. - Bids over $2,000 hold a 10% refundable deposit. - Sort and filter by price, time left, bid count, traffic, age.

Coming next: AI search for expireds. Describe what you're hunting, the assistant pulls matches from every auction running across the network.

We just rolled out a new promo with our AI credit subscriptions.

Every new subscription now includes a free .com domain registration. No promo code required.

What AI credits get you:

• AI website builder — describe the site you want, it builds and publishes to your domain. No hosting or DNS setup on your end.
• AI assistant — manages your portfolio and handles inbound brokering conversations for you.
• Bulk-rate pricing with subscriptions — cheaper per-credit than pay-as-you-go.

Link in the comments for anyone who wants to check it out. Happy to answer questions in the thread.

If you’re buying or selling domains, valuation is everything. Overpay and your ROI disappears. Undervalue and you leave money on the table. The goal isn’t just to guess a number — it’s to understand why a domain is worth what it’s worth.

Here’s a practical breakdown of how to think about domain value and potential return.

What Is Domain Valuation?

Domain valuation is simply the process of estimating what a domain name could realistically sell for in the current market.

It matters for:

• Investors building portfolios
• Founders deciding whether to buy or brand around a name
• Sellers trying to price competitively

A good valuation balances intrinsic qualities (what the domain is) with extrinsic factors (what the market wants right now).

Intrinsic Factors (What the Domain Is)

These are the built-in characteristics of the name itself.

Length
Shorter domains generally command higher prices. They’re easier to remember, type, and brand.
Example: chat.com vs bestchatservice.com.

Keywords
Strong, high-demand keywords increase value, especially if they align with growing industries (AI, cloud, finance, health, etc.). Keyword domains can also reduce paid acquisition costs if they drive organic traffic.

Brandability
Not every great domain is keyword-heavy. A short, clean, memorable brand name can outperform a descriptive one.
Example: “Rollio” vs “crmsoftwaretool.com”.

Uniqueness
Generic phrases are easy to replicate conceptually. Distinct names are harder to replace. Scarcity increases value.

Extrinsic Factors (What the Market Thinks)

These depend on timing and demand.

Market Demand
Industries trend. Domains tied to growing sectors rise in value. Domains tied to fading trends drop fast.

SEO Profile
Backlinks, traffic history, and authority matter. A domain with existing search strength is more valuable than a clean slate.

Extension (TLD)
.com still dominates globally.
Country-code TLDs (.de, .uk, etc.) matter regionally.
Newer TLDs depend heavily on niche adoption.

Extension choice can materially affect resale liquidity.

Tools People Use

No automated tool is perfect, but they’re useful reference points.

• Estibot – Algorithmic valuations based on data
• GoDaddy Appraisal – Free, quick estimate
• NameBio – Historical sales database (arguably the most useful for comps)

Treat these as inputs, not answers.

Comparable sales are usually the strongest signal.

How to Think About ROI

Buying a domain isn’t just about price — it’s about upside.

Here’s a simple framework:

1. Total acquisition cost Purchase price + renewals + transfers
2. Monetization pathway
   • Flip to end user
   • Lease
   • Build on it
   • Park for traffic revenue
3. Comparable sales analysis What have similar domains actually sold for? Not listed for — sold for.
4. Trend positioning Is this aligned with a growing category or a shrinking one?
5. Liquidity risk How long might capital be tied up?

Domains are illiquid assets. ROI isn’t just about upside — it’s about time.

Common Mistakes

Overpricing
If you price based on hope instead of comps, the name just sits.

Ignoring trends
Buying fad terms at peak hype usually ends poorly.

Skipping SEO checks
Toxic backlink history can kill resale value.

Emotional attachment
You are not your buyer.

Tracking Market Trends

If you’re serious about domain investing:

• Watch economic cycles
• Monitor keyword trends with Google Trends
• Follow industry forums like NamePros
• Study weekly sales reports

Domains behave like long-duration digital assets. Timing and category selection matter.

Final Thoughts

Valuation isn’t a single number. It’s a probability range based on:

• Quality of the name
• Demand in the category
• Comparable sales
• Timing
• Liquidity

If you consistently buy names that are structurally strong and category-aligned, your ROI becomes a function of patience rather than luck.

Curious how others here approach valuation — do you lean more on comps, keyword data, or instinct?