Four services. Each one ends with a name in your account.
Most engagements begin the same way: a company is trading on a name that is close to the right one, and wants the right one. The four services below cover the routes to get there, and what to do with the names once you hold them.
Private sales from the portfolio
Imsa Search holds a private portfolio of exact-match .com names, each registered to us outright. The names on the ledger are representative; there are others we do not list. If one belongs with your business, the conversation is short: we quote one figure, explain how it was reasoned, and send a purchase agreement your counsel can mark up.
There is no auction and no reserve. The price does not change because you replied quickly, and it does not change because a competitor asked the same week. We would rather place a name with the company that should have it than hold it for a higher bidder who will park it.
Enquire about a name- One quoted figure, with the comparable sales it rests on.
- A purchase agreement warranting clear title: no liens, disputes, registrar holds or third-party claims.
- Escrow.com settlement, funded by you, released only on your confirmation of control.
- A transfer record and bill of sale from the escrow agent for your books.
- Cut-over guidance if the name is going live for mail or web on day one.
Buyer representation and anonymous acquisition
When the name you need belongs to someone else, the worst thing you can do is write to them from your corporate address. The holder now knows who wants the name and roughly what it is worth to you. We approach instead, in our own name, and the number that comes back reflects the domain rather than the buyer.
The work starts with the search that gives the firm its name: identifying the registrant behind a privacy service, checking whether the name is in use, parked, in dispute or lapsing, and forming a view on what the holder is likely to accept. You then set the ceiling. We never bid above it, and every offer and counter-offer is shown to you before it goes out.
Acquisitions are priced as a fixed fee agreed up front plus a success fee on completion. If the holder will not sell at a number you are willing to pay, you owe the success fee to nobody.
Ask about a name we do not hold- Search: registrant, history, use, disputes, expiry.
- Ceiling: you set the maximum; we hold it in confidence.
- Approach: in our name, never yours, to the registrant or their agent.
- Negotiation: every message reviewed by you before it is sent.
- Agreement and escrow: the seller signs with us or directly with you, as you prefer; funds sit at Escrow.com.
- Transfer and inspection: we manage the registrar side and you confirm control before release.
Brand and email protection reviews
A company that trades on example.net, example.co.uk or example-inc.com is, without knowing it, sharing its inbox with whoever holds example.com. Customers guess the .com. Suppliers autocomplete it. Staff type it into a form on a hotel wifi. Some of that mail bounces; some of it does not.
A protection review maps the exact-match .com of each trading name, the hyphenated and concatenated variants, the common typos, and the country codes of every market you sell or recruit in. For each name we record who holds it, whether it receives mail, and what it resolves to. You receive a ranked list of the names that carry real exposure, a cost estimate for each, and a plan for the names you already hold.
The review is desk research on public records and DNS. We do not touch anyone's systems and we do not contact any registrant unless you later ask us to.
Commission a review- Names in scope: exact-match .com, variants, typos, relevant country codes.
- Per name: registrant or privacy service, registrar, age, live MX, what the site is.
- Exposure ranking: which names could plausibly be receiving your mail today.
- Acquisition estimate for each name worth closing.
- Hygiene for names you hold: catch-all handling, SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment, clean rejection of misdirected mail.
Portfolio custody and consolidation
Domains are bought by whoever needed one that day: a founder's personal account, a web agency, a marketing lead who has since left. Years later nobody is sure how many the company holds, where they are, or whose card the renewals are on. The risk is not theoretical; the name that lapses is always the one nobody remembered.
Custody starts with an inventory. We locate every registration, establish who controls it, and move each one into a single registrar account that the company owns, with two-factor authentication, registrar and registry locks where available, funded auto-renewal and a named internal owner. You receive a one-page register your auditors can read, and a quarterly note when anything on it changes.
Discuss custody- One account, owned by the company, not by a person or an agency.
- Locks at registrar level, and registry level for the names that matter most.
- Renewals funded from a company payment method, multi-year on core names.
- Register of every name: purpose, owner, expiry, DNS host, live services.
- Exit plan: the names that can be let go, and when.
Not sure which of these you need?
Write with the name and a sentence on the situation. Sarah will reply with the route she would take and what it is likely to cost, before you commit to anything.