We recently released our latest IPv4 Investment Index – a comprehensive snapshot of the secondary market for this digital asset.
The concentration at the top is what stands out this quarter.
Five deals over $1 million accounted for more than a third of all IPv4 value traded on Escrow.com in H1 2026 – from just 2% of total deals.
📊Full report: escrow.com/ipv4/ipv4-investm…
👉 Buy and sell IPv4s securely: escrow.com
More than 100 AI companies just co-signed a warning that AI-powered cyberattacks are about to get a lot more common.
Payment systems are the kind of target that gets hit first.
Escrow.com holds funds until both sides confirm the deal is real – so a scammer can't just take the money and disappear.
Secure your transactions
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In 'digital real estate', 92% of the money is chasing land with nothing built on it.
Straight from our latest Domain Investment Index.
Full report: escrow.com/domains/investmen…
‼️.ai just beat .com.
Average price on an exact-word .ai domain hit $535k this quarter – the highest ever recorded, and higher than .com's own record.
Full numbers in our Q2 2026 Domain Investment Index
escrow.com/news/articles/ai_…#ai#domainsales#Escrow#domains
Cybercrime now costs the world $1.24 TRILLION a year – according to a new Comparitech report.
The average victim loses $9,468 a hit.
Escrow.com exists to block bad actors and secure high-value transactions.
Trust the platform that's safely secured more than $8B in transactions.
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New data reveals the astronomical sums stolen from credit card users each year.
There’s a slight silver lining buried in the stats – the percentage lost is actually creeping down.
But card protections only go so far.
They don’t cover you when you’re sending money to a stranger for a car, or a domain with no protection on either side.
That’s the gap Escrow.com closes.
#Escrow#PaymentSecurity#AntiFraud
People are splashing out on luxury again.
7 of the top 10 watch brands saw secondary-market prices rise this year – just 1 did last year.
Fine wine and art are climbing too.
Buying something this expensive?
🤝 Escrow.com holds the funds until both sides are happy.
Tech pioneer and Google's chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf just announced his retirement.
In the 1970s he helped decide the internet would run on 32-bit addresses. Nobody involved thought that number would ever run out.
It ran out...in 2011.
Now there's a whole market for what's left. $536M+ traded through Escrow.com's IPv4 marketplace across 82 countries. Demand is surging amid the AI agent boom.
📝 The Escrow IPv4 Investment Index: escrow.com/ipv4/ipv4-investm…
👉 Buy and sell IPv4 addresses securely: escrow.com/IPv4
According to multiple news outlets, ChatGPT has been recommending fake shopping sites that steal your credit card details.
AI is very good at sounding authoritative.
Less good at knowing whether a seller is real.
That's the problem escrow was invented to solve. The money doesn't move until you've confirmed what you paid for actually arrived.
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5️⃣ Connexly Holdings Inc – John Mills
25+ years in networking. Hundreds of successful IPv4 acquisitions. Silicon Valley-based, compliance-first approach to a market where due diligence matters. 6/7
4️⃣ Brenac EURL – Thomas Brenac
IPv4 broker registered as a facilitator across all five Regional Internet Registries. France-based, genuinely global reach. 5/7
🧵 Introducing the Escrow.com IPv4 Power Broker Awards – recognising the brokers moving the internet's scarcest resource.
Every AI agent needs an IPv4 address to function. There are only 4.3 billion. They ran out in 2011. Deal sizes on Escrow.com are up 66% year-over-year.
👇These are the people keeping the market moving. 1/7
🥈 Brander Group – Jake Brander (@BranderGroup)
Facilitated over $1b in sales since 2016.
"Agentic AI kind of blew up the whole industry. Overnight, we just had an explosion of customers coming in." 3/7
🥇 IPv4.Global by Hilco Global (@HilcoAPAC)
In the market since 2011. Over 65 million addresses monetised. The largest IPv4 marketplace in the world. 2/7
4️⃣ Brenac EURL – Thomas Brenac
IPv4 broker registered as a facilitator across all five Regional Internet Registries. France-based, genuinely global reach. 5/7