SAN FRANCISCO, California – March 30, 2026 – For seven consecutive years, one broker sat at the top of the billion-dollar domain name industry. That streak is over, and it's happened in the middle of the biggest boom the market has seen in years, with .AI domains nearly tripling in value and AI.com selling for a record $70 million.

Welcome to the world of premium domain brokerage, which just got a new champion.

Escrow.com, the world's leading secure transaction platform for domain names, today named Andrew Miller as its 2026 Master of Domains – the annual award recognising the highest-grossing domain name broker in the world, by the value of transactions facilitated through the world's largest online escrow company. Miller, the Founder and President of ATM Holdings and a Strategic Advisor to Hilco Digital Assets, has been behind some of the biggest domain deals in history, including Chat.com, Rocket.com, Gold.com and Universal.com.

In taking the top spot, Miller ends the longest winning streak in the awards' nine-year history. The previous number one, Andrew Rosener of MediaOptions.com, who has brokered deals including X.com for Elon Musk and Zoom.com for Zoom, had held the position for seven consecutive years.

This year Rosener faced some serious competition. He didn't slip to second. He didn't fall to third. He landed at fourth – behind Miller, Keith Richter of the Lumis Group, and newcomer Rob Schutz of Snagged.

Miller's coronation comes amid a marquee year for the industry.

Escrow.com facilitated over $395 million in domain transactions in 2025. The AI boom has rewritten the market, where .AI domains nearly tripled in value from $9.4 million to $27.1 million in a single year, now generating more transaction volume than .io, .co, .co.uk and every other alternative extension combined. And in April 2025, AI.com sold for $70 million, the largest domain sale ever recorded, to Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek, who launched an AI platform under the brand during the Super Bowl.

Ryan McKegney of DomainAgents extends his own remarkable run, placing for the ninth consecutive year, the only broker to have appeared in every edition of the awards since their inception. Brian Harbin of Grit Brokerage also returns, accepting on behalf of his full team.

Four brokers make their debut this year: Rob Schutz of Snagged, who came to domain brokerage from the startup world after co-founding healthtech company Ro; Braden Pollock of Legal Brand Marketing, a long-time domain investor and ICA board member; Luciana Samsudean of SafeNames; and Cory Greenberg of Clickology.

"Andrew Rosener has dominated these awards for seven straight years – it was the longest winning streak in the program's history. This year Andrew Miller ended it, and Rosener didn't just slip a spot. He fell to fourth. That tells you something about the calibre of competition in this industry right now," said Matt Barrie, Chief Executive at Escrow.com.

"Miller has been behind some of the biggest domain deals ever done. Congratulations to the new #1 domain name broker in the world!"

Award Overview

The annual Escrow.com Master of Domains recognises the 10 highest-grossing domain name brokers measured by the value of deals they closed in 2025.

2026 Master of Domains Winners

1. Andrew Miller – Founder & President, ATM Holdings / Strategic Advisor, Hilco Digital Assets

Andrew Miller has been a founder, investor and advisor on many of the most prominent domain name transactions of all time, including Chat.com, Rocket.com, Gold.com, Creditcards.com, InsuranceQuotes.com, Club.com, Universal.com and Home.com.

2. Keith Richter – Co-Founder, Lumis Group

Keith Richter is accepting the award on behalf of the Lumis team. Established in 2017, the firm has worked with more than 100 companies to acquire their domains, building a network of buyers across six continents. Keith assumed the role of Sales Director in 2020 and implemented a strategy focused on helping end users secure their brands.

3. Rob Schutz – Co-Founder, Snagged

Snagged is a New York-based domain brokerage that helps companies buy and sell premium domain names. Co-founded by Rob Schutz – formerly co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at Ro and VP of Growth at Bark – alongside Brian Jarcho, who spent seven years on the leadership team at Zocdoc. The firm has built a niche drawing on startup experience and a network of founders, investors and VCs who rely on them to navigate naming, branding & domains.

4. Andrew Rosener – Founder & CEO, MediaOptions.com

Andrew Rosener is the founder and CEO of MediaOptions.com, the former number one domain broker in the world for seven consecutive years. Since 2008, Andrew has been involved in more than $600 million in domain sales and has played a role in numerous high-profile transactions, including X.com to Elon Musk, Zoom.com to Zoom, and Prime.com and Podcast.com to Amazon, among thousands of others.

5. Louis Pickthall – Co-Founder, BrandForce.com

Louis Pickthall is the Co-Founder of BrandForce.com, which holds over $1 billion in domain inventory. Since launching in 2021, the firm has established itself among the industry's top brokers for high-value transactions. Publicly known sales include Connect.com, White.com, Floor.com, Vintage.com and WT.com, though most of BrandForce's deal flow remains under the radar. Louis previously worked with Frank Schilling at Uniregistry.com before its acquisition by GoDaddy.

6. Ryan McKegney – CEO, DomainAgents

Ryan McKegney and his team help clients of all sizes buy and sell domains. Ryan has been recognised as one of the Masters of Domains every year since the awards launched – a streak unmatched in the program's history. Operating since 2012, DomainAgents has built a reputation as a trusted partner of buyers, sellers, registrars and service providers.

7. Braden Pollock – Founder, Legal Brand Marketing

Braden Pollock is a domain investor, angel investor, founder and author who has spent decades at the forefront of internet commerce. He sits on several boards, including the Internet Commerce Association, is a frequent keynote speaker and is an advocate for transparency in digital assets. He founded the Pollock Fund, which focuses on investments in alternative asset classes.

8. Brian Harbin – Founder, Grit Brokerage

Brian Harbin is the founder of Grit Brokerage and is accepting on behalf of the full team – an independent firm started in 2014. The Grit Brokerage team has a combined 60-plus years of domain brokerage experience across Brian, Michael Law, Maureen Sullivan, Tess Diaz, Sabrina Laureola and Kathryn Malaban. The firm specialises in outbound sales to end users on the sell-side, stealth domain acquisitions on the buy-side, and runs a blog and popular monthly domain newsletter.

9. Cory Greenberg – Founder, Clickology

Cory Greenberg is the founder of Clickology.com, a boutique consulting firm that handles premium domain name acquisitions and digital asset strategy. The firm works with startups, growth-stage companies and established brands to secure high-value domains. Beyond acquisitions, Clickology advises on go-to-market strategy, monetisation and growth marketing.

10. Luciana Samsudean – Domain Broker, SafeNames

Luciana Samsudean is a domain broker at SafeNames, where she brokers premium domain names and supports complex negotiations on behalf of clients worldwide. She is part of an experienced brokerage team focused on delivering successful outcomes across high-value domain transactions.

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Winner of the BBB Torch Award for Ethics for Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the Bay Area, Escrow.com is the world's largest online escrow provider. Founded in 1999 by Fidelity National Financial, today over US$8 billion in transactions have been secured from over 3 million customers. Escrow.com is the world's number one platform for domain name transactions — it also facilitates large-value transactions for vehicles, property, electronics, jewellery, general merchandise and other categories of products, using the most secure payment method from a counterparty risk perspective - safeguarding both buyer and seller. All funds transacted using escrow are kept in trust. The company is a division of Freelancer Limited (ASX:FLN, OTCQX: FRLCY). Escrow.com's headquarters is in San Francisco, California, the United States.