--- title: 'You Don''t Even Know How Much Your Nickname Is Worth! How to Sell a Username in Telegram?' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=WPwbY-VAI5s' video_id: 'WPwbY-VAI5s' date: 2026-07-28 duration_sec: 774 channel: 'Хозяин Телеги • всё про телеграм' --- # You Don't Even Know How Much Your Nickname Is Worth! How to Sell a Username in Telegram? > Source: [You Don't Even Know How Much Your Nickname Is Worth! How to Sell a Username in Telegram?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WPwbY-VAI5s) ## Summary This video explains how to sell Telegram usernames for real money using the official Fragment platform. It covers common scams, how to assess a username's value, and provides a step-by-step guide to auctioning usernames. The creator shares personal experiences and tips for maximizing visibility and avoiding fraud. ### Key Points - **Selling usernames for real money** [00:01] — Usernames like 'anonymous' sold for $1.7M and 'pizza' for $600K. The narrator sold his username 'r4' for 35,000 TON (~6M rubles). People pay real money for desirable usernames. - **Common scam scheme** [00:42] — A user offers to buy your username, directs you to a fake platform demanding a commission or login, leading to account theft. Scammers then use your account to request loans from contacts. - **Use official Fragment platform** [01:45] — Only use fragment.com to sell usernames. Log in via Telegram and connect a Tonkeeper wallet. Never follow third-party links. - **What makes a username valuable** [02:52] — Most usernames are worthless. Valuable ones are short (4 characters), famous brands, real names, or common English words. Long, compound usernames with numbers/underscores have no value. - **How to check demand** [03:48] — Go to fragment.com, filter sold auctions, sort by price descending. Find a similar username and check its sale history to gauge value. - **Notable sales examples** [05:10] — Artemy Lebedev bought 'tema' for 5,050 TON (~1M rubles). A friend bought 'mos' for 20M rubles and another friend bought 'bh' for 14M rubles, later sold to T-bank. - **Buying cheap at auction** [06:07] — Filter by auctions ending soon to catch undervalued usernames. Narrator bought 'brabus' for 15-20K rubles and resold for 80K rubles. - **Prerequisites for selling** [07:15] — Need Telegram Premium (20 username limit per account). Username can be linked to profile, channel, or group. Download Tonkeeper, remember secret phrase, top up with TON. - **Important setup steps** [08:19] — Enable two-factor authentication in Telegram. Wait 7 days after creating a username before listing on Fragment. - **Step-by-step auction listing** [08:45] — 1) Go to fragment.com. 2) Connect Telegram. 3) Connect Tonkeeper wallet (scan QR). 4) Verify identity. 5) Go to 'My Usernames'. 6) Select username and place at auction. 7) Set minimum bid and place first bid to start auction. - **Getting visibility for your auction** [09:38] — Place an initial bid yourself to appear on the main page (by highest bid). Narrator placed 200K rubles for his 'r24' username. If no one outbids, you get NFT and bid returned minus commission. - **Auction mechanics and tips** [11:30] — Auction only starts after first bid. Commission is 5% + 5 TON. Usernames can be resold. Subscribe to Fragment Alerts bot to track bids. You can simulate excitement with multiple wallets. ### Conclusion Selling Telegram usernames is a real money-making opportunity, but only for valuable nicknames. Avoid scams by using only the official Fragment platform and realistically assess your username's worth before investing time or money. ## Transcript feature that allows you to sell your usernames for real money. For example, the nickname went for 1,700,000 dollars, the username Pizza for almost 600,000 dollars. Well, I was able to sell my Linkn R4 for 35,000 tons, which is currently almost 6 million rubles. And this is not a joke. People actually pay for make money on this if you have a nice link. But there is a problem here, because along with this opportunity, a bunch of schemes have appeared that are trying to scam today we'll figure out how much your Usname is really worth, how to sell it, and how to avoid getting scammed. Don't skip to the very end of the video to avoid losing money and instead earn it. Let's start with the divorce scheme, as it usually happens. A random user, usually with a foreign username and in English, writes to you and offers to buy your completely non-unique username, for example, one with underscores, a lot of numbers, and so on. And it’s not much, not a little, but on average they promise a million have a unique opportunity. Have you heard that nicknames can be sold? An interested buyer is writing to us offering the very same platform, an all these transactions take place. And we understand that in the course of a few minutes, a that in the course of a few minutes, a tempting. And at this moment, scammers act on this very haste and desire to get money from people. They offer to register on a pay a commission. That is, in the best case, we will lose money on commissions, and in the worst case, if we guess that we log in to a third-party platform, we will lose access to our account. Then it falls into the hands of criminals. Well, then everything follows the classic pattern. They start scamming us through our chain of contacts, asking for money as a loan, and then the scammers' creativity knows no bounds. You need to be more follow third-party links. If you want to sell your username, use the official Fragment platform . You can log in via Telegram and be sure to connect your Tonkeeper wallet. Next, you can place your username on auction, and let the your username on auction, and let the try their luck at buying your username. Only this way and no other way. Moreover, real buyers most often study the auction fragment and make a decision there whether to bid or not. They write directly to you in private messages in rare, exceptional cases. Well, if anyone didn't know, the can suggest making an offer, that is, an offer to buy. That is, an interested buyer can find a link there that he really needs. And the owner of this link will receive a notification from the fragment that someone wants to buy his link. Now let's figure out how to understand that someone really needs your username . And moreover, is it worth decent money? The truth is bitter. Most usernames are worth nothing. word are more popular and valuable. Of course, in English, for example, Apple, Google, Space, Earth, and so on. This is not some kind of derivative with underscores, incomprehensible symbols, underscores of the official 777 there and so on. This is all beside the point . The most valuable ones are short nicknames, which have four characters. And, by the way, if you try to take a nickname like this, you because the minimum number of characters is five. Therefore, only TGO can create such nicknames based on certain information . And Telegram itself sells them, it turns out, in fragments. Next. Famous brands and popular names. For example, it is a person’s real name , for example, Michael, or a famous brand, as I already mentioned, Apple, or the same Google, and so on. Well , if you want, you can leave your username in the comments or any other username, and I will evaluate it, how much it might really be worth and whether it has any value at all. Something that is definitely of no use to anyone and has no value whatsoever. Long compound nicknames with numbers, underscores and extra characters. For example, Vasya, underline Pupkin, underline 2026. Next, meaningless nicknames and combinations of words that go in a continuous line without spaces. for example, XXX Dark Lord XXX plus nicknames that come with underscores in the middle, and not just single ones, but long ones. And those usernames that are difficult to remember in one word the first time. How can we check demand? Let's go step by step. First, go to the fragment.com site. On the main page we see all current auctions. And here you can create a filter, that is, select those auctions that have already been sold, and they will be sorted in descending order of price. Based on this, we can understand what is really in demand and how much it is generally valued in terms of money . Here we can find a nickname that is as similar to ours as possible. This could be due to sound, semantic load, or any other attributes. Found a similar nickname, looked at the history of transactions or bids during the auction. From this we can already draw conclusions. If you can't find similar usernames, or if they exist but are unused, meaning there's no particular buzz around them, then . Have there been any interesting cases where someone bought an unusual nickname for themselves? Yes, there were two moments. It was imprinted so clearly in my memory. The first is when Artemy Lebedev bought the usрнеame Tema in March of '23, and at that time it cost him 5,050 tons at that exchange rate, approximately a million rubles. Plus, a friend of mine, an admin, bought the username Mos for his Moscow news channel and paid 20 million rubles for it at the then exchange rate . And by the way, my friend also has a third case. Bought BH usernрame. At that time it was 14 million rubles. He then saw on the news that Oleg Tinkov was planning to somehow remove his name from the bank, and he immediately started thinking. And the first would be renamed T-bank. And so he borrowed money from USrnamebank for free, which the yellow bank eventually acquired from him. Does it make sense to buy nicknames for Yes, in general this is possible. For example, here's another life hack: we go to auctions, there we can filter by end time, that is, on the page fragment we can display those auctions that are about to end, and an auction there lasts on average a week. Here. And it often happens that someone didn't pay attention and nickname ends up at the end of the auction, but the bid is still low, meaning they didn't notice it for some reason. This is how I was able to catch the username Brabus. It initially cost me 15-20 thousand, and I resold it a short time later for 80,000 rubles. approximately. Nobody ever buys regular nicknames market is currently at a point where, if we have a nickname that might be of interest to a brand, business, or celebrity— for example—such nicknames can actually sell well. There are people who do this, but I will say that it is really very difficult. That is, all the main well-known names, brands, and companies there, when the news boom started about Sber being sold for a huge amount of money, Kars and other guys, especially schoolchildren and students, started to actively many nicknames as possible. You don't need to create a bunch of accounts. You create a public has a nice link. If you have Telegram premium, I think there's a 20 username limit , so you can have 20 attractive users per four accounts, then that's, well, eight pieces. Now let's figure out sell a username. The first thing that is obvious is a Telegram account. But what's important here is that your username can be linked not only to your profile, but also to a channel or public group that you own. The next step is a wallet that will contain the T-tone cryptocurrency, because without it it is impossible to auction your username. To do this, you need to download TNki Keeper, remember the secret phrase there and top up this wallet with TON. After that, we go to the Fragment platform and log in there using our Telegram profile. That is, we will simply receive a button in Telegram in which we confirm our desire to log in. . And then we need to connect the thinkeeper's wallet in order to, accordingly, firstly, pay the commission at the moment of placing the username at the auction and place the first bid for the auction to begin. Secondly, when the auction is completed, in order to receive funds into our wallet for which we will sell our nickname. There are two more small but important points here. First, before doing any of these steps, don't forget to enable . Firstly, it is additional security for you. Secondly, all these actions can be carried out with it. The next thing concerns the username and its placement on the site. If you just took ususername, you might not be able to upload it to fragment.com and will have to wait about a week. So don't rush and wait for these 7 days. Well, just in case, let's finally run through the points on how to specifically post a us-sales. First, go to fragment.com. Second, connect to Telegram, click Connect in Telegram, and log in via the bot. Next, we connect the TON wallet and scan the QR code using the Ton Keeper app. Fourth. becoming a victim of scammers and to successfully promote and monetize Telegram. Step five. On the Fragment platform, we can go to the My Usernames section and see all the nicknames that are available to us and that we own. This is something we can put up for auction. Next step, sixth. We select the desired username and place it at auction. Next, we confirm the action in the cart and set the minimum bid. So, the nickname will appear, so to speak, ready for the start of the auction. But for the auction to start, you need to place the first bid. When I was selling my R24 username, for example, I looked at the main page of the fragment and saw that the current bid was really noticeable, and on the main page, auctions are ranked by the maximum bid. This means that the auction that highest bid among all auctions is always visible on the first line. To make sure your usrname and, visible to the majority of users, you need to aim for it to appear on the page fragment. At that time, for me it was 200,000 rubles. Actually, that's what I did, I placed the initial bet. And here you don’t need to worry, don’t be afraid. And if no one outbids you, then when the auction ends, you will receive your usrname as an NFT in the thinkeeper's wallet. And, of course, the bid you place to start the auction will be returned to you minus a small commission to your Tonkeeper wallet. This disappear without a trace. But if someone outbids you wallet, and the auction will continue to develop. An important point that the auction ourselves, like I just said, yes, that is, if we don't place our bid, then the username will simply hang on the fragment and no one main auction page. In order for it to be noticed, someone would have to specifically search for it through the fragment search on the site. Agree, this greatly reduces the chances of it being successfully sold. Here is a little trick - a dash recommendation. Even if you doubt the value of your nickname, but initial bid, you can initiate it and thereby create truly in demand. There are even some clever people who add additional wallets from which they make subsequent bets, thereby simulating a certain excitement around the username. And I also want to give you four more nuances that many people keep quiet about. The first and very important fundamental point. The auction starts again only from the moment the first bid is received. If the username is simply placed on auction on a fragment, this does not start the seven-day countdown timer . Once again, the first bet is needed. Secondly, there is a commission from the final bid, which will be the final one at which the username will be sold. The fragment shows how the platform keeps 5% of the commission and another 5 tons on top. Third. Usernames can be resold. This way you can make money on this difference, but it’s a game of luck. Fourth. It's crucial to subscribe to the Fragment Alerts notification bot , which is actually called Fragment Alerts. This way, you won't miss any bets that might arrive to your username. Selling usernames is a real opportunity to make real money, but only have a valuable nickname. Don't fall for scams, don't pay commissions just anywhere, and realistically assess the value of your asset. If you'd like to learn more about ways to make money and monetize your cart in general , feel free to subscribe to my channel; the link is in the description. There I analyze generate income and are still effective to this day . And that's all from me. The . And that's all from me. The owner of the cart was with you. Until next time.