How TrustTLD works
Straight answers about verification, the TRUST Score, and how buying and selling actually happen here.
What is TrustTLD?
TrustTLD is where domain buyers do their research. Every listing is ownership-verified and carries transparent trust data: registration age, archived website history, live DNS status, traffic ranking, and a TRUST Score computed from those signals. When you’re ready to buy, each listing links to the marketplace where the domain is actually for sale — Atom, Afternic, Sedo, Dan and others.
Browse the marketplaceHow does TrustTLD verify domain ownership?
Every listing must prove ownership before it can be submitted, one of two ways. If the seller signs in with an email address on the domain being listed, that proves control directly. Otherwise the seller adds a DNS TXT record with a unique value tied to their account, and TrustTLD checks it with a live DNS lookup.
What is the TRUST Score?
A score computed from verifiable signals about the domain. It is calculated the same way for every domain, and a signal that is unavailable is left blank rather than guessed.
How do I buy a domain listed on TrustTLD?
Use the buy button on the domain’s page. It takes you to the marketplace where the seller listed it — Atom, Afternic, Sedo, Dan, or the domain’s own sale page — and payment, escrow and transfer happen there, under that marketplace’s terms and protections. TrustTLD doesn’t take payment or hold domains. Prices shown on TrustTLD are seller-reported, so confirm the price on the marketplace before you buy.
How much does it cost to list a domain?
Nothing — listing is free. Every listing passes ownership verification and a review before it goes live. Sellers who want more visibility can buy credits and spend them on boosts: featured placement, the ticker, pinning in a category, or recommendation on similar listings. Boosted placements are labelled.
List a domainCan I list a domain that isn’t for sale?
Yes. A showcase listing displays a domain with its full trust data but no price and no buy button. Sellers use it to build a public, verified portfolio.
Where does the domain data come from?
From named public sources, fetched per domain. Sellers can additionally request a backlink and SEO report for their own listing. Data that a source cannot provide is shown as unavailable, never estimated.
How does TrustTLD compare to other domain marketplaces?
Most marketplaces are where a sale happens. TrustTLD is where you check a domain before buying it: listings can’t go live without proof of ownership, and the trust signals behind every domain are shown openly with their sources. The sale itself happens on the marketplace the seller chose, so TrustTLD isn’t in the middle of the transaction and takes no commission on it. Some buy buttons are affiliate links — they’re labelled, and they don’t change the price.
See detailed comparisonsWhat are credits and boosts?
Credits are how sellers pay for extra visibility on TrustTLD. You buy them in packs and spend them on boosts — featured placement, a spot in the ticker, pinning first in a category, or recommendation on similar listings — each for a set number of days. Credits don’t expire. Boosted placements are labelled, and every buyer a listing sends to its marketplace is counted on the seller’s dashboard, so a seller can see what a boost did.
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