This URL still talks like a high-ticket brand acquisition. Keep it. Wikipedia’s M&A is companies combining. A domain sale is a registration changing hands under ICANN’s transfer policy. Money sits in domain escrow until Lookup shows the buyer. That split is already on this site: moving a website is not transferring a domain.
I’m Mostapha. I buy and sell names from Morocco. I have sent people a “term sheet” energy for a name that needed an auth code and patience. Checker first so you know if the letters deserve escrow fees. FAQ. Price: a range, not a guarantee.
The small sale (most of them)
- Agree one number. Not five listings: one public ask.
- Escrow that understands domains. Not a cousin’s PayPal.
- Seller unlocks, sends auth, leaves DNS still unless the contract says point it. Lock was never for the host: don’t unlock to migrate.
- Buyer confirms ICANN Lookup, then funds release.
Keep offer mail alive until it is done: don’t break MX. Do not park the lander in a cloud login you cannot hand over: that trap. If you smell a hijack mid-deal, freeze: that page.
When there really are two assets
Sometimes they want the shop: customers, files, Google login, and staff. Write it down as a second deal. Escrow for the name does not include the database. Traffic is not the domain: that argument. Marks still matter; a transfer does not wash a UDRP risk: don’t buy the fight.
If you are the buyer: checker before you fund. If you are the seller: same range, then escrow not an M&A deck.
Decision
Use corporate language only if lawyers are already in the room for a company. For a name: escrow, lock, auth, stillness. Keep the Google row. High-ticket brand acquisition was the old cologne. The sale is a push.