I’m Mostapha. I buy and sell names from Morocco. Leasing is not a personality, and it is not a Python rent script. It is: a company wants to use the name, they pay, you still own the registration until the contract says otherwise. If nobody would print the string, there is no tenant. That refusal lives here: leasing a leftover is not passive income. This page is the case where the name is a keeper.
Domain Value Checker first. How we score. FAQ. If you would not hold it, do not rent it. A lease in the ordinary sense still needs an asset someone wants. Marketplaces that support rentals (Sedo’s leasable domains) do not create demand. They display it.
Two shapes, one lock
Lease: they use it, you keep it, they pay. Lease-to-own: payments count toward a buyout. The second is a sale on installments. Price both from a range you can defend: not a guarantee, before you sell. Percent-of-value monthly rules of thumb are starting points, not laws. A missed payment on lease-to-own is how you inherit a used brand. Write default, take-back, and what they may not do with the name (spam, marks they do not own).
Money through domain escrow or a marketplace that actually holds funds. Registrar lock stays yours. Nameservers you can still change if they vanish: NS are part of the asset. Do not send an EPP code “so they can set up faster.” That is a transfer. Sales that are not M&A still need a push only at buyout: that split.
When selling is cleaner
You need cash. They are ready. The name is retail and the spread is real. Then a lease is you financing them. Flip mechanics: a spread, not collecting. One public number, not a rent and a BIN that fight: one ask. A tenant who will use it as someone else’s mark is your UDRP: don’t buy (or rent) the fight.
Mailbox for your registrar is not their corporate mail: the registrar email is the lock. If they operate a site, that is their host, not a reason to unlock.
Decision
- Checker. Leftover → drop or cheap-sell. No lease.
- Keeper + a company that asked → contract, escrow, lock, boring DNS. A lawyer if the number is real.
- Keeper + silence → lander and wait. Templates do not invent tenants.
Keep the Google row. Recurring passive income was the old headline. A lease is a tenant you can name, on letters you would keep anyway.