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Close carefully and understand commission

Learn why accepted terms, payment evidence, completed transfer and confirmed disbursement are separate milestones.

By DigiBroker · Updated

A domain sale is complete only after the agreed payment and transfer conditions are met. DigiBroker's planned broker commission is 20% of an eligible attributed gross sale price. A $100,000 completed sale would allocate $20,000 to the broker. An offer alone does not earn commission.

What you will learn

  • Distinguish an offer, completion, earned commission and paid money.
  • Explain the planned 70/20/10 allocation and safe transfer boundaries.

A yes is not a completed transaction

A buyer's enthusiasm, an accepted offer and a checkout link are different things. Confirm the exact domain, price, participants and scope in the account workflow. Owner acceptance or valid delegated broker authority does not remove buyer confirmation, independent operations review or purchase reservation requirements. Recruitment is open, but selling and commission payments are not currently available.

Follow the reviewed payment and transfer process when trading is enabled. Do not improvise a payment link or ask a buyer to send money to your personal account. Brokers must not handle buyer funds, owner bank credentials, registrar passwords or transfer authorization secrets. The owner and the supported provider handle the appropriate transfer steps through the approved process.

ICANN's transfer guidance distinguishes changing registrars from changing registrants for generic top-level domains. Country-code domain rules can differ. Check the actual extension and registrar process rather than promising a universal transfer schedule.

Require evidence for each milestone

A browser return from checkout is not evidence that funds cleared. Likewise, a payment receipt does not prove that registration rights transferred. Completed settlement needs authoritative funding and transfer evidence, correct attribution and reconciliation against the accepted terms. If the status is unknown, preserve that uncertainty and escalate it. Do not create a second collection attempt merely because a page is slow or a confirmation is missing.

Earned, payable, processing, held, reversed and paid describe different states. A dispute or provider restriction can hold money even after an allocation is recorded. Paid means a confirmed disbursement, not a broker clicking a button or the platform calculating a balance. Provider support and onboarding must be confirmed before using a payment arrangement. No automatic split or fixed payout date is promised.

Illustrative example, not a completed DigiBroker sale

For an eligible attributed completed sale at $10,000, the planned allocation is $7,000 to the owner, $2,000 gross commission to the broker and $1,000 to DigiBroker before provider costs. The broker's share is twenty percent of the gross sale price, not twenty percent of the platform fee. DigiBroker bears provider transaction and payout costs without reducing the promised owner and broker shares. A direct sale has no broker allocation: the owner receives seventy percent and the platform thirty percent.

Prepare a closing checklist

For that fictional example, list the evidence still missing after a buyer accepts the price. Include verified participants, current terms, buyer confirmation, review, reservation, cleared funding, completed transfer and beneficiary disbursement. Mark which items establish a sale and which establish actual payment to the broker. Finally, write the message you would send the owner if the provider outcome were unknown: factual, calm and without promising a date you cannot support.

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