Held, never flipped
Privately held through the entire genomics build-out. One open listing, through one broker.
All the must-haves of a
category name.
Comps in the millions
Disclosed category-name sales cluster between $4.8M and $35.6M. Do the multiple yourself.
The word itself
Epi — “above.” Genome — the code. The science is converging on one word, and this is its .com.
Escrow in days
Funds held by a licensed third party, released only after the name is in your account.
Why this name is available at all
I don't write a page for every domain that crosses my desk. Most don't earn one. EPIGENOME.COM does, and the reason is simple: it is the one-word name of an entire scientific category, and names like that change hands once.
This name has been held privately through the entire genomics build-out — through the sequencing boom, through the first epigenetic therapies reaching patients, through every cycle in which a buyer might have pried it loose. It was never developed, never flipped, never listed. The reason it is on the market now is not timing or trend. It is a specific change in the holder's situation, and I would rather walk you through it on a call than flatten it into a paragraph.
What I can put in writing: the seller has authorized one open listing, through me, at a number I considered defensible before I agreed to represent it.
The category is named after it
The genome was the last century's map. The epigenome is this century's control panel — the chemical layer that decides which genes are expressed, silenced or amplified. Drug programs, diagnostics, sequencing platforms and longevity clinics are converging on the same vocabulary, and the vocabulary converges on one word.
Type the science into any search engine, any grant database, any regulatory filing. The word is epigenome. There is exactly one .com that is the word itself, with nothing added and nothing to explain.
0
letters
0
word, exactly
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hyphens, digits, compromises
.com
needs no defense
What category names trade for
Brokers say “category-defining” the way realtors say “charming.” I'll use the phrase once, and then show you the math instead. Below are disclosed, lump-sum sales of names that are — or contain — the exact word for their category.
01
Insurance.com
The category noun for an industry. Still the benchmark for exact-match .com sales.
2010
$35,600,000
02
Voice.com
One word, one technology wave. Bought before the category finished forming.
2019
$30,000,000
03
HealthInsurance.com
The exact phrase a buyer types when they mean the category. Health DNA, like this name.
2019
$8,130,000
04
Medicare.com
A single health term, acquired by an operator who built on it for a decade.
2014
$4,800,000
EPIGENOME.COM
The entire category in one word. The comp set establishes a floor, not a ceiling.
now
$14,888
You are not buying a domain
EPIGENOME.COM is not nine letters and an extension. It is what owning the category's name makes possible — and what not owning it costs, quietly, every year a competitor holds it instead.
The first slide
The partners open your deck. The name is the category, so the first thirty seconds of credibility work are already done before anyone speaks. The meeting starts ahead of where it would have — every meeting does, for the next twenty years.
The press release
The headline writes itself, because the name is the noun the journalist was going to use anyway. Your competitor's announcement needs a second line to explain what they do. Yours doesn't.
The call you receive
Five years from now, the category leader's counsel asks what it would take to get the name from you. The answer is a number with more zeros than this page — and the leverage runs in your direction, permanently.
$14,888
USD · lump sum · full ownership
One number, no auction theater. The transfer runs through Escrow.com: funds are held by a licensed third party and release only after the name is in your account — typically within days. No recurring fees, no renewal traps, nothing left to negotiate except whether you want it.
Listed by Tom McCarthy
I broker ultra-premium names at GoDaddy. A handful cross that desk in a given year; fewer earn a page like this one. I have been wrong about a name before — it has been a while.
If you operate in genomics, diagnostics, therapeutics or longevity, you already know why the word matters. My job is simpler: tell you it is available, show you the math, and get out of the way of your decision.
Tom McCarthyGoDaddy
N° 07 — Make your offer
Fifteen minutes,
Fifteen minutes,
this week or next.
If the name is on your radar, the most efficient next step is a fifteen-minute call. I'll walk you through the full comp set, the seller's position, and where I think this lands in the next ninety days. You decide from there.
Written offers work too — the form routes directly to me, and I answer the serious ones the same day.
— Tom McCarthy · GoDaddy