A wantlist is a saved search over the domain aftermarket. You describe the names you are looking for once, as a set of filters, and Domainyze re-runs that search after each refresh and emails you a digest whenever something new matches. It turns sourcing around: instead of watching names you already know, you describe names you have never seen and let the market bring them to you.
How a wantlist differs from a watch list
The two look similar but point in opposite directions:
- A watch list tracks specific names you have already found and are waiting on. It holds names.
- A wantlist holds no names at all, only criteria. It surfaces listings you would never have thought to search for, the moment they appear on the market.
Put another way: a watch list is for the names you know you want; a wantlist is for the shape of a name you want, filled in by whatever the market lists next.
How it works
A wantlist runs a small loop on your behalf:
- Describe it once. Set the filters that define a name worth your money, a keyword, a set of extensions, a price ceiling, a minimum valuation or brandability, and save it with a label. That is the whole setup.
- Matched after each refresh. Twice a day, just after the market data is refreshed from GoDaddy and Dynadot, your saved filters are re-run against the fresh listings. You are not scanning; the scan runs for you.
- Only what is new. A listing counts as a match only the first time it appears. A later refresh that re-sees the same listing does not notify you again, so your digest is arrivals, not the whole market re-sent.
- A digest, not a firehose. New matches collect into a single email that lists several inline with the true total, rather than one message per listing. If nothing new matched, no email is sent, so an idle wantlist is silent.
What you can filter on
A wantlist is built from the same filters as the aftermarket search:
| Criterion | What it narrows | For example |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword | The name itself, with * wildcards |
contains, starts with, or ends with cloud |
| TLD | One or more extensions | .com, .io, and .ai only |
| Marketplace | Which market listed it | GoDaddy or Dynadot |
| Sale type | Auction, closeout, or buy-now | auctions only |
| Price | A minimum, a maximum, or both | under a set ceiling |
| Valuation | The marketplace appraisal range | above a set floor |
| Traffic | A minimum of monthly visits | names still drawing visits |
| Brandability | A minimum name-quality score | strong, readable names only |
| Length | A minimum, a maximum, or both | six letters or fewer |
| Composition | Exclude hyphens or numerals | letters only |
Name age and archive-history depth are not filters. Those are computed on request for a single name you are looking at, so they enrich a result you already have rather than narrow the feed. Filter on price, valuation, traffic, and brandability first, then dig into the individual names that survive.
Three views of one saved search
The email digest is the push. Each wantlist also gives you three ways to look on demand:
- Live now — the filter re-run against the current live market, so you can act on what is listed this minute without waiting for the next digest.
- New since the last digest — just the arrivals since your wantlist last mailed, the same set the next digest will carry. It is the review queue between emails.
- A durable history — every match is written to a history feed and kept for 90 days. Each entry is a self-contained snapshot of the listing as it was when it matched, so it still reads correctly even after the listing re-prices or comes off the market.
How a wantlist is delivered
By email. New matches for a wantlist collect into a single digest and arrive in your inbox, labelled with the search, so each wantlist reads as its own thread. Unlike an aftermarket alert, a wantlist digest is not routed to Slack, Discord, or a webhook, it is an email summary of a saved search. A wantlist exists to deliver that digest, which is why an account without the paid aftermarket alert lane cannot save one.
Free to browse, paid to save
Browsing the aftermarket with the same filters is free on every plan, from the Aftermarket page in your dashboard. A saved, delivered wantlist is a paid feature: Free plans can browse but not save one, and paid plans can save several. The exact number each plan includes is on the pricing page, and the boundary is explained in understanding plans and limits.