The questions people actually ask.

Meor is a marketplace for buying and selling domain names, starter sites and established online businesses across the Middle East and North Africa. Ownership is verified before a listing is published, and payment is held by a licensed third-party escrow provider until the buyer confirms they have received what they bought.

Escrow.com, a licensed and regulated escrow provider, holds it. Meor never touches the funds and is not a money transmitter. The buyer pays on Escrow.com's own page, the money sits there while the asset is transferred, and it is released to the seller once the buyer confirms receipt or the inspection window closes.

Listing is free. Meor charges a success fee only when a deal closes, paid by the seller out of the proceeds and taken from the escrow release rather than invoiced separately. The rate falls as the price rises: 15% up to $5,000, 10% up to $50,000, 8% up to $250,000, 6% up to $1,000,000, and 4% above that. The whole price is charged at its band's rate. A buyer pays the agreed price and nothing to Meor. Escrow.com charges its own fee under its own terms.

The seller publishes a TXT record on the domain and Meor resolves it from the public DNS. Only the person who controls the domain's DNS can do that. A listing that does not pass this check never becomes public, and the badge on a live listing means this specific check passed, not that anyone vouched for the seller.

Every figure on Meor is labelled with where it came from. A number read directly from a connected Stripe or Shopify account is marked as live from a connected account. A number the seller typed in is marked as seller-reported and unverified. Meor does not present the two as if they were the same thing, and a domain with no trading history carries no financial claim at all.

It depends where the domain is registered. If both parties use the same registrar it is an account push: minutes, no authorisation code, and not subject to the 60-day transfer lock. Between two registrars it is a standard ICANN transfer: the seller unlocks the domain and supplies an auth code, and it takes five to seven days. Meor generates a different checklist for each route, because instructions for one are wrong for the other.

Yes, but those deals are handled by a person rather than by automated instructions. Several Gulf and North African registries do not use the ordinary transfer process — some require a trade licence or a local administrative contact before a buyer is allowed to hold the name at all — so Meor routes them to manual handling instead of printing steps that would not work.

No. Meor offers a valuation for assets that have trading figures, computed from those figures. A domain has no revenue to work from, and Meor will not generate a number for one rather than invent a value a buyer might rely on. A domain's asking price on Meor is the seller's, labelled as the seller's.

Yes. A confidential listing hides the name, the URL and the detailed figures until the seller approves a buyer who has signed an NDA. A fully private listing goes further and never appears in search or browse at all — it reaches only buyers whose saved criteria it matches, and the seller decides who sees more.

US dollars. The escrow provider settles in dollars and supports no regional currency, so prices are quoted and paid in USD regardless of where either party is.