Frequently given answers

xtr.name is a name house. We curate premium domain names and route them to owners — through outright sale, lease-to-own, sealed bid, or Name Partnership. Our discipline is naming, brand architecture, and IP stewardship.

Fairlane Ventures GmbH, based in Zug, Switzerland. Foundery.Group operates as our sister company under the same parent for full-build Name Projects.

Marketplaces aggregate listings at scale and compete on inventory volume. xtr.name curates — every name has documented provenance, trademark clearance memo, brand-architecture analysis, and category positioning. We sell fewer names, but each comes with a dossier.

Short length, category clarity, trademark headroom, multi-language reading, defensible distinctiveness, and demonstrable demand signal in the intended commercial vertical. Premium isn't about price — it's about whether the name can carry a real business across a decade.

Public pricing represents the disciplined floor for each asset. Moving it downward in public would compromise the price discipline across the entire portfolio. Negotiation happens on contract structure, payment schedule, and bundling — under NDA.

Yes. Inquire and explain what you have in mind. We work with structured payment terms, longer lease horizons, joint announcement schedules, and other tailored arrangements regularly. Public listings are the entry point, not the limit.

We don't, by default. If you want a name held while you decide, request an exclusivity window in your Inquiry — typically 7 or 14 days, longer if substantively justified. Otherwise the name remains active until a transaction commits.

First response within 1 business day. NDA and term scoping within 2–3 days. Contract signing within 5–7 days of agreed terms. Escrow and transfer 5–10 business days after that. End-to-end most acquisitions close in 2–3 weeks.

No. Each buyer is responsible for tax treatment, VAT handling, and any sector-specific compliance in their jurisdiction. We provide the asset documentation and transaction records needed for the buyer's own compliance work. Recommend your accountant or counsel for jurisdiction-specific questions.

The domain (or full multi-TLD bundle) transferred into your registrar, the trademark clearance memo, and the brand-clearance dossier — with documented chain of provenance. Clean title at closing, no co-ownership claims, no reserved rights.

Pick a name and click Inquire. We guide you through one of three paths: outright purchase, lease-to-own, or sealed bid. All transactions clear through a licensed escrow service. Most close in 5–10 business days; international wires can extend to 14.

A neutral third party holds the buyer's funds until the domain is verifiably under the buyer's registrar control. We cannot release the domain until escrow confirms funds received. It protects both sides from the failure modes that wrecked early domain resale.

Escrow.com, Sedo Escrow, and Dan.com (Squarespace-hosted) are our standard providers. We follow buyer preference within those three. Other licensed escrow services are accepted on request.

Yes. Public pricing represents the floor. Contract structure — payment schedule, transfer timing, NDA scope, exclusivity windows — is negotiated under mutual NDA. Private terms are how most acquisitions above €30k close.

Public pricing represents the disciplined floor of each asset. We don't move it downward in public; we do negotiate structure, schedule, and bundling in private. Sealed-bid is the formal channel for that conversation.

Nothing. No fee, no continuing obligation, no name held off-market without your explicit request. We don't retain inquiries for outbound retargeting. The Inquiry starts a conversation; it isn't a commitment.

Yes. Lease-to-own includes a conversion clause: accumulated lease payments credit against the outright purchase price. The conversion formula is fixed at contract signing.

A Name Project is the full-build operating partnership for owners committing capital to develop their name into a real business. It is operated by Foundery.Group, our sister company under Fairlane Ventures GmbH (Switzerland).

Name Partnership keeps a parked name commercially alive at low cost — owner is passive, no investment required. Name Project builds the name into a serious operating business — owner is active capital partner, full vertical scope.

The complete build: trademark portfolio filings across relevant classes, brand identity and brand-story development, MVP of the business application with automated backend dashboard, audience-acquisition campaigns, partnership and channel development, operating team build-out.

Owners who want to build their name into a real business and are prepared to deploy capital to do it. Sector operators, family offices, established companies adding a brand, founders entering a new vertical with a strong name they already own.

Name Project engagements are scoped per name and per owner objective. Pricing is not published — terms are structured with each owner under NDA, including capital participation, equity position, and engagement schedule.

Yes. Many owners start in Name Partnership to demonstrate commercial signal at low cost, then commit to Name Project once the signal is proven. The two products are sequential by design.

Contact via xtr.name and we route the introduction to Foundery.Group. First meeting under mutual NDA scopes the engagement. Both entities operate under common ownership through Fairlane Ventures and are disclosed as related.

An agreement where the owner keeps their domain and xtr.name keeps the name commercially active at low cost — landing page, content, basic monetization. We are the intermediate stage, not the final operator. Owner participates in revenue once build cost is recovered.

Most parked names sell for a fraction of what they could earn under a multi-year operating curve. Partnership keeps the asset on your balance sheet, converts renewal cost into cashflow, and you retain ownership throughout. Sale is permanent; partnership is reversible.

Nothing. The owner pays €0 throughout. xtr.name covers setup and the chosen development track. These figures define the build-cost pool that operating revenue clears before revenue-share kicks in.

Lightweight clearance check, landing page positioned for the name's category, basic content scaffold, analytics and lead-capture, monetization infrastructure (affiliate or partner-routing), social handle reservation with minimum-viable presence. Production-quality but light-touch — not full brand build.

Because xtr.name is a temporary partner. Building expensive brand identity, filing trademarks, constructing MVP infrastructure — those investments belong at the next stage if the name's commercial signal warrants them. We demonstrate signal at low cost. Name Project handles full build.

Three years minimum. Five, seven, or ten years available at signing depending on name potential. Renewal options at each term expiry allow extension through successive defined periods. No automatic rollover.

After build cost is recovered from operating revenue. The agreement defines the recovery target and schedule. Premium names typically clear recovery within 12–24 months depending on track.

Yes. Upgrade from light to active development is available if the name shows stronger signal than the initial track captures. Downgrade isn't typically available because active commitments include spend already made.

The agreement includes a 36-month checkpoint. Either party can pull out or renegotiate. Owner takes back full control with all developed assets. No silent drift on underperforming projects.

Owner takes back the domain with everything developed during the term — landing page, content, audience, social handles, monetization relationships. No financial penalty, no continuing obligation. Zero cash spent, commercial signal learned.

The model is asymmetric against xtr.name — we carry the build cost and recover it from operating revenue. Names without identifiable commercial signal don't clear the pool and we lose the investment. We only accept premium names with demonstrable category demand.

That's Name Project, operated by Foundery.Group, our sister company under Fairlane Ventures GmbH (Switzerland). Name Project includes the full build: IP, MVP, audience campaigns. Most Name Partnership owners graduate to Name Project once their name proves itself.