Private domain acquisition · United Kingdom
Acquired quietly.
Sold without a word.
Business Robot buys and sells premium domain names on behalf of companies who would rather their plans stayed their own. No public listing, no open bidding, no announcement — the name simply changes hands, and your market is none the wiser.
Every conversation opens under NDA · Nominee purchase available · Escrow settlement as standard
Currently on our books
48 names
- 31 available to buy privately
- 9 under offer or in negotiation
- 8 held for named clients, unlisted
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Why privately
A domain purchase is a
statement of intent.
Buying a name in the open is rarely a neutral act. The moment a business is seen reaching for a name, the price moves and the reason moves with it. Competitors read the signal. Customers ask questions before there is an answer. Suppliers reprice.
We take the transaction off the open market entirely. The seller never learns who is behind the offer unless you want them to. Your customers, your suppliers and your competitors learn nothing at all.
What an open purchase gives away
- A rebrand, a new product line or an expansion, months before you are ready to talk about it
- Your budget, inferred from the asking price you agreed to pay
- Your interest to a seller who will price accordingly once your name is on the offer
- A public price history that follows the name for the rest of its life
- A registrar record that any competitor, customer or supplier can read the day it changes
Available now
Names available,
names not shown
Every name on our books is obscured in public, including the ones that are freely available. Sign a mutual NDA and the full list arrives unredacted, usually the same working day.
northgate.com
A composed, institutional single word with real weight to it. Suited to banking, wealth management and private capital.
tridex.com
Three letters, one owner since 1994, never publicly offered. Strong fit for logistics and insurance.
vantagegroup.co.uk
A clean British corporate name with fifteen years of clear history and no prior commercial use. Professional services and advisory.
quietharbour.com
A brandable compound that is easy to say and easy to spell. Appropriate to healthcare, wellbeing, membership and hospitality.
halcyon.ai
A one word technology name, reserved for a client pending board approval. Returns to the list only if the reservation lapses.
ledgerworks.com
A precise, unfussy name for accounting, treasury and financial software. Reads as established rather than new.
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How it works
Six steps, and you can
stop at any of them
Nothing is published at any stage, and nothing carries your name until you decide it should. You can walk away at any point without explanation or cost.
Enquiry
Tell us the name, the category, or simply the outcome you want. You get a reply from a person within one working day.
Confidentiality
A mutual NDA is signed before any detail is exchanged. It binds us as tightly as it binds you.
Valuation
We price the name against comparable private sales rather than headline public ones, and give you a range we can justify.
Approach
We approach the owner in our own name or as your nominee. Who you are, what sector you are in and why you want it stay with us.
Terms
Price, staged payment, holding period and any agreement on future disclosure are all settled in writing first.
Completion
Funds through regulated escrow, transfer at the registrar, privacy applied on arrival. Then the file closes.
Confidentiality
Four undertakings we
give you in writing
Discretion is not a courtesy we extend when asked for it. It is the whole point. These four undertakings appear in every engagement letter we issue.
Nominee purchase
Where you prefer it, we buy in our own name and transfer to you on completion. The seller and the public record never see your interest.
Sealed records
No press, no case studies, no published prices, no client logos on our website. Completed deals are never used to market us.
Need to know
One person leads your instruction. Files are kept separate, correspondence stays off shared systems, and our confidentiality obligations outlast the engagement.
Clean handover
Registrar privacy applied on arrival, historic records reviewed, and the transfer timed around your announcement rather than ours.
What we handle
Where we
specialise
We work in the parts of the market where names are rarely advertised and owners rarely answer strangers. If a name falls outside what we know well, we will say so and point you at someone who does.
- Legacy .com — names registered before 2000, most never publicly offered
- United Kingdom — .co.uk and .uk corporate names, including dormant company assets
- Three letter and acronym — a closed market where nothing is ever listed
- Exact match category — the single word that describes what a business sells
- Brandable one word — short, clean and unambiguous when said out loud
- Defensive registrations — the plurals, misspellings and country extensions around a launch
Selling
Selling a name you would rather not advertise
A name listed publicly is a name whose price is anchored in public. We place premium domains directly with buyers who have already told us what they are looking for, and your ownership is never disclosed without your say-so.
- Written valuation within five working days
- Unlisted placement, or a discreet approach to a shortlist of buyers
- Commission agreed up front and payable only on completion
- No exclusivity beyond ninety days unless you choose to renew
- Your ownership disclosed only at the point of transfer
We had spent a year avoiding the purchase because we could not be seen to want it. It was bought for us in three weeks, and nobody in our market knows to this day.
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Common questions
Straight answers
If what you need to know is not here, ask. We would far rather have the awkward conversation before an instruction than during one.
Will the seller know who is buying?
Only if you decide they should. Where a nominee purchase is used, we contract in our own name and assign the domain to you on completion. Sellers deal with brokers on that basis routinely and think nothing of it.
Could our customers or suppliers find out?
Nothing about your instruction is published by us at any stage, and registrar privacy is applied on transfer. Where a name carries visible history, we will tell you honestly what a determined observer could still piece together before you commit to anything.
How is the money handled?
Through regulated third party escrow, or through solicitors where the sum or the structure calls for it. Funds reach the seller only once the transfer has been verified as complete.
What do you charge?
Acquisitions are usually a success fee on the purchase price, agreed before we approach anybody. Sales are a commission on completion. There is no charge for an initial valuation or an exploratory conversation.
What if the name we want is not for sale?
Most of the names worth owning are not, and that is precisely the work. We identify the owner, judge whether an approach is likely to be welcome, and open the conversation in a way that neither raises the price nor reveals you.
Do you help with brand protection?
Yes. Picking up the near misses, plurals and country extensions around a name is quieter and considerably cheaper before a launch than after one.
Next step
Start a conversation
that goes no further
Tell us the name, the category, or just the problem. We keep only what we need in order to reply, and an enquiry commits you to nothing at all.
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