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What You Missed in Q3: 10 Stats That Tell the Story
- 📉 Publicly disclosed domain sales fell 13.78%, reaching $6.74M — with 4L .coms continuing to dominate reported volume.
- 💸 Escrow.com sales surged 92.18% to $31.44M — highlighting strong activity in private domain transactions.
- 💼 4L .coms generated roughly $4.5M in public sales — accounting for around two-thirds of the quarter’s disclosed total.
- 🧾 3L .coms led escrow activity with $21.82M in sales — accounting for approximately 69% of Escrow.com’s reported total.
- 📈 Verisign climbed 12.43% in Q3, outperforming both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq — while its trailing 12-month gain stood at 2.02%.
- 🚀 GoDaddy rose 12.52% this quarter, narrowly outpacing Verisign — but remained down 30.2% over the past year.
- 🏛️ The S&P 500 gained 2.03% in Q3 and 14.4% over the past 12 months — maintaining a positive trajectory across both periods.
- 💻 Nasdaq advanced 2.47% in Q3, edging ahead of the S&P 500 — though both indices trailed the quarter’s double-digit gains in domain-related stocks.
- 🧱 4L .com values held steady at the 5th percentile this quarter — with a modest 1% decline over the past year, pointing to relative price stability at the lower end of the market.
- 💹 Grayscale Bitcoin Trust surged 41.89% in Q3, leading the report’s asset comparisons — yet remained down 28.05% over the past year.
Global Asset Markets – Q3 2026
Global Asset Markets – Past 12 Months
*GBTC – Grayscale Bitcoin Trust
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