Snipe the best domains before anyone else.

Yes. PounceDomains connects to your Namecheap Market account via your own API key, so all auctions and bids run through your account. You stay in full control.

After fast programmatic filters (length, TLD, no numbers/hyphens, etc.), each candidate is scored by the AI strategies you choose — pronounceable, brandable, exact-match keyword, short/premium, dictionary, two-word, or your own custom criteria. Only domains that clear your threshold become matches. New to it? Just describe the domains you want in plain English and AI will build a tuned config for you.

On every match, Pro and Elite see full domain signals: Ahrefs authority, search demand, backlinks, last-sold comps and domain age — plus third-party appraisals (Estibot, GoDaddy) and a conservative AI resale estimate with a disciplined suggested max bid. The suggestion is deliberately margin-safe and never below the current minimum bid, so you bid on real signals — it's there to inform your bid, never to discourage it.

Yes. Pro and Elite include a Portfolio that tracks every domain you own, its cost basis, and your realized profit and loss. Auctions you win are logged automatically with their cost; you can also add domains you own elsewhere. Each holding gets one-click sell links to Namecheap (with the domain pre-filled), Afternic, Sedo, Dynadot and Atom — plus a copy-domain button and an AI-generated sales description you can paste straight into your listing.

When an expired-domain auction ends with no bids, the domain usually isn't gone — it typically drops weeks later and becomes available to hand-register at the standard price. Monitor Drops (Pro and Elite) watches those no-bid domains for you: it estimates each one's drop date, re-checks availability as the date approaches, and alerts you by email and in-app the moment it's registerable, with a one-click register link. Start monitoring any no-bid expired domain straight from your matches or watchlist, or add one manually.

Closeouts are no-bid expired auctions Namecheap re-lists cheap, stepping the minimum down toward a floor as low as $1 (depending on the TLD). PounceDomains (Pro and Elite) pulls that live, zero-bid lane and ranks it by quality signals — authority, backlinks, search demand, age and last-sold comps — against a rock-bottom ask, all on every card. Filter and sort by any of those, then place a proxy bid in-app — or monitor the domain's drop to hand-register it later. It's the cheapest lane to pick up a quality name.

Only if you opt in. The default is approval mode — we alert you and you place the bid in one click. Auto-bid is off until you enable it per config, and it's gated by a global master switch, per-domain max bid, daily budget cap, and a dry-run mode. In auto-bid you can also choose to bid the moment a match is found, or snipe by holding your proxy bid until the auction's final minutes.

Every third-party key is encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and never shown again after saving. Your data is isolated per account with row-level security.

It scans continuously and catches auctions in their final stretch, then places proxy bids right up to your maximum. Scan cadence scales with your plan — every hour on Free, every 10 minutes on Pro, and every 5 minutes on Elite — so more of the market is surfaced to you, sooner. (Note: Namecheap's expiring and marketplace auctions close in a daily batch at 11:00 AM ET, and a late bid can extend an auction past that — so the winner is whoever set the smartest proxy maximum, not the fastest click.)

You can start completely free, and every new account includes a 14-day Pro trial with more configs, faster scans and full domain signals. After the trial you can stay on the Free plan (1 config, scans every hour, one-click approval bidding) or upgrade to Pro or Elite for more configs, faster scans, full domain enrichment and suggested max bids, more drop monitors, a portfolio with profit tracking, effectively unlimited AI scoring — plus optional auto-bid for hyper-targeted names — no credit card to get started. One thing to know up front: PounceDomains is separate from Namecheap, so monitoring, scoring and alerts are free, but to actually place bids you'll need your own Namecheap Market account — which carries Namecheap's own Market subscription and a funded deposit to bid. Those costs are on Namecheap's side, not ours.