Practical accounts of building a domain marketplace: what happened, what we tried, and what startup founders can use.
Sharp uploads, blurry banners
An October 2026 audit of image delivery in desktop web views of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Spotify and X, with source files and reproducible measurements.
Dev blog#images#performance#brandingA footer that fits the page
The footer used to run the full width of the window while everything above it stopped at the text column, and on a phone its fourteen links stacked into a tower taller than most of what they sat under. It is two short rows now, aligned with the page, and every link in it is big enough to hit with a thumb.
Dev blog#website#accessibilityA trail, and a boundary
Every domain page and post now shows where it sits in the site, and the browser enforces limits on what other sites can do with our pages. Including one limit we chose not to set.
Dev blog#website#standards#privacyFaster, lighter, and readable without JavaScript
Every domain page now works with JavaScript off, heavy scripts load only when used, and an automated accessibility gate guards each deploy.
Dev blog#performance#accessibility#websiteOur domains announce themselves — _for-sale DNS records
Every domain in the portfolio now publishes an RFC 10023 _for-sale record, so tooling can discover it is for sale from DNS alone.
Dev blog#dns#standardsHow we price five thousand domains
No gut feelings — every price blends several independent appraisals, discards outliers, and is versioned like code.
Dev blog#pricing#appraisals