NamesCon Global 2026: Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot Domain Auction

This year NamesCon Global 2026 brought the domain trade to Miami on 11 November 2026, and the centre of the room was the RightOfTheDot premium domain auction hosted by Monte Cahn. Domain Investors put names from its own book under the hammer, beside top domain investor Rick Schwartz, leading domain brokers, registrars and industry experts.

For one day the global domain industry pointed its attention at a single sale. NamesCon is where the people who price digital real estate meet in person, and the RightOfTheDot catalogue is the list most of them come to read. The Ask AI Artificial Intelligence team followed the bidding alongside the investors it works with.

The audience was international and mostly made up of people who buy for a living: established investors, founders shopping for a brand, domain brokers, marketplace representatives and digital asset professionals. Monte Cahn, whose name has been attached to premium domain auctions for years, ran the RightOfTheDot sale. Rick Schwartz, often called the King of Domains, was among the figures expected on the floor, together with other well-known names from the industry. When that many decision makers share a room, a good name can find its price in minutes.

Holding a name and testing it are different jobs. Domain Investors has built its portfolio slowly, one acquisition at a time, and an event of this size is the cleanest way to show those names to buyers who would never otherwise see them. A live auction also returns something a private enquiry cannot: a public read on what the market will pay. Whatever the paddles say in Miami, the company learns how its domain investment choices look to the people who set prices.

The entries cover a wide spread of industries. They are grouped below the way the company filed them.

Short words for the tools businesses already pay for: language models, security, assistants, app building and the plumbing of the web. Several sit on the .si ending, which the company also reads as Super Intelligence.

Places, trades and words a company could put on a sign tomorrow, from Canary Wharf to a tech company and a support desk, plus a full-alphabet name few registries could ever repeat. Two of the strongest, gigabytes.co.uk and gigabytes.si, were held back from the sale and can still be bought directly.

Two names for the charging network every new car park now needs, on the ending built for it.

The Domain Investors desk is tracking NamesCon Global 2026 through to the last lot: the headline sales, how hard the bidding runs on the AI and security names, and where its own entries land against the reserve. Results matter beyond one portfolio. Every closing price at a RightOfTheDot sale becomes a reference point the next domain investor uses when a buyer calls.

It is a busy moment for the trade, and having its own portfolio in the Miami catalogue is a milestone for the company.