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Venture.med

The category name of healthcare venture building. One buyer. Control transferred within 24 hours of cleared escrow.

There is exactly one Venture.med. It is available now. It will be sold once.

We publish no asking price. You name a figure. We answer within two business days.

Where the market is going

Health is where venture money is going, and the people deploying it have no category address.

Healthcare venture building is a category rather than a job title, because the same activity now has dedicated funds, corporate arms, studios and accelerators competing for the same founders.

USD 70.4 bn
Venture funding into health startups in 2025.
USD 40.1 bn
Raised in the first six months of 2026 alone, which puts the year on course for about USD 80 bn. That is roughly 14 per cent above 2025.
Tenfold
How much funding into health startups has grown over the past five years.
Corporate arms
Novo Holdings, Eli Lilly and Sanofi Ventures rank among the most active investors in biotech startups this year. Every one of them competes for deal flow under a name that says nothing about what it does.

Sources: dealroom.co ยท biopharmadive.com. Checked 11 September 2026.

A venture fund, a studio and a corporate innovation arm all sell the same thing to founders: that they are the serious address for building a healthcare company. None of them owns the word. One of them could.

What names like this sell for

Category domains are an asset class with public prices.

An exact match category domain trades in seven and eight figures, because the buyer is not paying for traffic. The buyer is paying to end an argument about who owns the term.

Rocket.com
USD 14,000,000 in 2024, to Rocket Companies. A company that had already named itself after the category, buying the name to match.
Chat.com
USD 15,500,000 in 2023, bought as conversational AI became a category. It now resolves to ChatGPT.
HealthInsurance.com
USD 8,130,000 in 2019, to Health Insurance Associates.
Medicare.com
USD 4,800,000 in 2014, to eHealthInsurance Services.
Voice.com
USD 30,000,000 in 2019, to Block.one.
Hotels.com
USD 11,000,000 in 2001. Twenty five years on, still the brand.

Figures as recorded in the public list of most expensive domain names (Wikipedia, checked 11 September 2026), which covers cash only sales. Reported domain prices are self-declared unless confirmed by the escrow agent. They are cited here as the market's public reference points, not as a valuation of this name.

Finance has repeatedly paid seven and eight figures for the word its customers actually type. Venture capital has not, which is unusual for an industry that spends its days telling founders that positioning decides outcomes.

Our own estimate is that simply holding Venture.med is worth EUR 1 to 2 million to a fund, studio or corporate venture arm in health, before a single page is published on it. That value sits in deal flow reaching you first, in how quickly answer engines name you when someone asks who builds healthcare companies, and in position within whatever the AI layer turns into next.

That figure is our assessment, not a third party's. It is the floor of what the name does on its own, with no fund, no portfolio and no traffic behind it. An offer that starts below it is answered, but it is not a negotiation.

Why now, and not in three years

Founders now ask a model before they ask a partner.

Generative engine optimization is the practice of shaping how answer engines cite you, because those systems match a concept to an organisation before they match a query to a page.

A first time founder in health no longer starts with a warm introduction. They start by asking a model who builds companies in their field, and the model answers with whichever organisation it has mapped most cleanly onto that concept. A domain whose name is the category is the strongest available signal that a brand and a concept are the same entity. It is also the one signal a competitor cannot replicate by publishing more content or hiring a better agency.

Deal flow is a ranking problem now, and the ranking is being decided while these systems form their entity maps. A name acquired after that buys a correction, not a position.

Why the suffix works in your favour

.med places you inside medicine rather than beside it.

.med is operated by Medistry LLC under an ICANN registry agreement, with Nominet as technical registry. Its stated purpose is to give users a trusted place to find medical information. Allocation and use sit under an Advisory Board, which may set further conditions at its discretion, including after a sale.

For an investor this reads differently than a generic suffix. A fund on .com is a fund that happens to invest in health. A fund on .med has told every founder, clinician and regulator which industry it belongs to before they have read a word.

We state the policy plainly. Some resellers claim .med is restricted to verified practitioners. The registry's own registrant agreement does not say so, your counsel will check, and a claim that fails that check would be the most expensive sentence on this page.

Speed

Control moves within 24 hours of cleared escrow.

A same registrar account push transfers a domain within hours, because it does not invoke the inter registrar transfer process at all.

The domain sits at united-domains. The buyer opens an account there, which takes minutes and costs nothing. On release of escrow the name is pushed directly into that account. This path avoids ICANN's five to seven day inter registrar transfer window. It also avoids the sixty day lock that follows a change of registrant. You control the name the same working day.

Some buyers prefer to hold the name at their own corporate registrar. That works too. The push happens first, then the onward transfer runs on your schedule instead of on the transaction's.

Make an offer

Name your figure.

We publish no asking price. What a category name is worth depends on what the buyer intends to do with it. Tell us what you would pay and what you would build. Every enquiry is answered personally within two business days. Every conversation is confidential, including the fact that you made one.

One expectation, stated so nobody wastes an afternoon. We assess the value of merely holding the name at EUR 1 to 2 million. Comparable category domains have changed hands between USD 4.8 million and USD 30 million. An offer should reflect that this is an asset transaction.

Net of VAT. An indicative range is fine, and it is not binding.

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Represented by Noorder partners GmbH. Direct enquiries only. Broker enquiries are welcome with a disclosed principal. You can also write to domains@noorder.partners, or .

Questions

Answered plainly.

Is Venture.med actually for sale?

Yes. Venture.med is owned by Noorder partners GmbH, Hamburg. It is offered for sale by private treaty to a single organisation. It is not parked, not listed at auction, and not being shopped to several buyers at once.

What does it cost?

There is no published asking price. The buyer names a figure and we answer within two business days. We assess the value of merely holding the name at EUR 1 to 2 million before anything is built on it. Comparable category names have sold between USD 4.8 million and USD 30 million. The first figure is our own estimate. The second are public reference points for the class, not a valuation of this name.

Who is this name for?

A venture fund investing in health, a venture studio building healthcare companies, a corporate innovation arm inside a pharmaceutical or medtech group, or a newly formed healthcare venture platform that wants its address to state its business.

How fast can it be transferred?

Within 24 hours of cleared escrow. The domain is pushed between accounts at the same registrar. That avoids ICANN's five to seven day inter registrar transfer window and the sixty day lock that follows a change of registrant.

How is the transaction secured?

Through licensed escrow at Escrow.com, against a signed purchase agreement. The buyer funds escrow. The domain is pushed. Funds are released only once the buyer confirms control.

Who can register a .med domain?

.med is operated by Medistry LLC under an ICANN registry agreement, with Nominet as technical registry. The registrant agreement states that the namespace exists to provide a trusted space for medical information. Allocation sits under the registry's Advisory Board, which may impose further conditions on registration and use. Confirm the conditions current at signing with your registrar.

Can the domain be leased instead of bought?

Yes. Lease to own is available. So are earn out structures tied to defined milestones, and arrangements in which the domain is contributed to a NewCo in exchange for equity.

Why does an exact match domain matter for AI search?

Answer engines resolve a question to entities before they select sources. A domain whose name is the category is the strongest available signal that a brand and that category are the same entity. Competitors can publish more content. They cannot replicate the name, so the citation advantage compounds.

Are other .med names available?

Yes. mRNA.med and RNA.med are held by the same seller and offered on the same terms. They can be bought individually or together with this name.

The asset and the terms

What changes hands.

Domain
Venture.med
Characters
7 to the left of the dot. Exact match for the category term, with no hyphen, no substitution and no plural variant.
Registry
Medistry LLC under an ICANN registry agreement. Technical registry Nominet. Registry policy verified 7 September 2026.
Seller
Noorder partners GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
Transfer
Same registrar push within 24 hours of cleared escrow, via Escrow.com
Structures
Outright purchase, lease to own, earn out against milestones, or contribution to a NewCo against equity
Also available
mRNA.med and RNA.med, same seller, same terms
Governing law
Germany, exclusive venue Hamburg
VAT
All figures are net. German VAT is added where applicable. Supplies to businesses outside Germany are treated under the reverse charge procedure where the conditions are met.

Nothing on this page is a binding offer. It is an invitation to make one. Every structure described here is subject to a separate written agreement.