14 days before
CNBC.
Domain Spy parses 500,000+ daily domain registrations and turns them into market intelligence. It caught a $10B acquisition two weeks before the press announcement. Runs for $5/month.
Domains cost money. Tweets don't.
Trend newsletters and social feeds show what's already popular. The signal comes after the opportunity has passed. Domain registrations tell a different story: they're financial commitments. Someone registering 10 TLDs for one brand just spent $250+ on a name. They're serious.
The problem is scale. Over 500,000 domains are registered every day. More than 95% are spam, brand squatting, or generic SEO fragments. Finding the signal in that noise requires specialised detection at scale.
We built Domain Spy to solve that: a daily intelligence system that processes the full feed, extracts patterns, and delivers actionable signals before they become news.
12 specialised detectors. One daily email.
A 6am pipeline that reads the internet's shopping list
Every morning at 6am AEDT, Domain Spy downloads the previous day's domain registrations from WhoisDS. It tokenizes each domain, applies word segmentation, aggregates keyword frequencies, and compares against a 7-day rolling average. Anything spiking more than 100% gets flagged.
AI synthesises the top signals with context from WHOIS data, Hacker News, Reddit, and SSL certificates. The result lands in your inbox as a structured intelligence brief.
Stealth launches
When someone registers 10 TLDs for the same brand in a single day, they're spending real money on a name. 700+ founder carts detected per week.
Fortune 500 moves
Monitors MarkMonitor and CSC registrars used by enterprise clients. When a Fortune 500 company registers themed domain clusters, it often signals a coordinated product launch.
New words, new markets
Tracks brand-new words appearing across independent registrars. If a word that didn't exist yesterday shows up from multiple sources, something is brewing. 350+ neologisms identified per week.
$10B acquisition. 14 days early.
On February 1, 2026, Domain Spy flagged “openclaw” appearing across 8 independent registrars. Over the next week, 233+ domains were registered. On February 15, Sam Altman announced OpenAI's $10B+ acquisition of OpenClaw. The signal arrived 14 days before CNBC broke the story.
The entire system runs on roughly $5 per month. No servers to manage. GitHub Actions handles scheduling, Neon handles persistence, Gemini handles synthesis. The cost-to-signal ratio is the real achievement.
“openclaw” flagged across 8 independent registrars in a single day.
Multi-registrar persistence over 8 days. Strongest signal type in the system.
Sam Altman publicly announced OpenAI's acquisition. CNBC followed.
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