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Latest Edition of GGRG.com's Liquid Market Report is Also a 10th Anniversary Landmark for Founder Giuseppe Graziano 

Giuseppe Graziano, the CEO and Founder of international domain brokerage and consultancy GGRG.com, burst onto the international domain scene like a Roman candle back in 2012 when he entered the industry as the Director of Business Development - Europe for the Domain Holdings Group. In the 14 years since then Giuseppe has established himself as one of the world's top domain brokers with multiple Escrow.com Master of Domains Awards (for ranking among their global Top 10 in sales) to prove it.

He has also had high visibility roles as a speaker and moderator at major conferences, including this year's Nordic Domain Days event in Sweden and as a commentator in many of our annual State of the Industry reports. However, Giuseppe is  probably most widely known for his quarterly Liquid Market Report, a publication that just reached a major milestone of its own.

The latest edition of the Liquid Market Report, covering the 2nd quarter of 2026, is a special one because this 40th edition also marks the 10th anniversary of the publication - a level of consistency that, coupled with its unique focus, has made it a highly anticipated quarterly read among domain investors around the world.

Unlike other market reports and analysis, the Liquid Market Report covers an important subset of the overall aftermarket - short acronym and numeric domains - that, due to steady demand, tend to have more liquidity than most other domain categories. These are .com domains comprised of 2-4 letters, 2-5 numbers or a combination of 2-3 characters mixing letters and numbers. Taken as whole, that "liquid" universe includes 614,928 .com domains.

To give you an idea of the kind of data the Liquid Market Report uncovers, here are some of the highlights from the latest quarterly edition for 2Q-2026:

*Public disclosed sales rose 53.01%, reaching $7.82M, showing a meaningful rebound in reported liquid domain transactions.

*Escrow.com sales came in at $16.36M, down 35.95%, but still more than double the public market total, confirming that most liquid domain activity remains private.

*3L and 4L .coms dominated again across both channels, with 4L leading escrow volume and 3L close behind, reinforcing their position as the core of the liquid market.

*Public sales were highly concentrated, with 3L and 4L .coms making up the bulk of disclosed volume while most other liquid categories remained thinly traded.

*2L domains remain the most developed category by far, with nearly 30% in active use, continuing to signal deep end-user adoption and long-term scarcity value.

*2C domains continued to stand out in development as well, at roughly 18%, placing them surprisingly close to 3L .coms and ahead of most numeric categories.

*Over the past 12 months, public equities sharply outperformed liquid domains, with NASDAQ, SPX, and GLD all up more than 20%, while 4L .coms were flat and 5N .coms declined 8%.

If you would like to directly receive the free quarterly Liquid Domin Reports, you can just enter your email address on the report home page.

(Posted July 14, 2026)  

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