Experiment — 2026
Domain Terminal.
A Bloomberg terminal for the domains founders buy and never build.
The desk before a portfolio is loaded. The tape is labelled simulated. Drag it sideways to read it.Open the terminal
What it does
Paste a portfolio, get an analyst desk.
Paste anything — URLs are fine; it normalises them, strips www and deduplicates. Every position is optional: status, cost, annual renewal and purchase date can each be left blank.
The desk returns a rating per asset — strong hold, hold, outperform, speculative, copium, bagholder, let expire — some of them qualified, in the smallest type on the page, with a reason: conviction exceeds execution, diversified across unshipped ideas, for emotional reasons, suspiciously disciplined. Alongside them: a self-assessed portfolio value against your cost basis, an annual renewal figure, and a sentiment reading. The output is a terminal, a canvas-rendered share card you can download, and share text generated from your own positions.
The ratings are a deterministic rules engine. Its own comment says so: no AI, no RNG. The same portfolio always gets the same verdict, which is the only way a joke like this can be reread.
Why it exists
Founders buy so many domains they’re becoming financial assets.
The terminal takes that literally: a TLD ticker, a composite index weighted by hype, analyst ratings per asset, a sentiment gauge that runs from let it expire to buy the .net too, and an annual renewal burn.
Its own market overview prints the position without comment: an average founder portfolio of 34 domains, against 0.7 shipped products per holder.
The record
- Made of
- One HTML file, 77 kB. No build step, no dependencies.
- Backend
- None.
- Network
- Google Fonts. There is no other request in the file.
- Your portfolio
- One key in your browser's localStorage. It is never sent anywhere.
- Market data
- Simulated, and labelled simulated on the page itself.
- Ratings
- A deterministic rules engine — no AI, no RNG.
- Live at
- dtx-terminal.vercel.app
- Status
- An experiment. Unlisted, and not a product.
If I can’t leave a thought alone, I make it real.
Some become products. Some become research. Some only needed to exist once.
Griotta is the one I’m building now.
julien@ombrise.com