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Liquid Market Report Q2 2020
Last quarter I was invited by the legendary Ron Jackson of DnJournal.com to share my view about how the domain aftermarket would be impacted by Covid 19. This is what I wrote: Assuming that within the domain aftermarket there are 2 separate markets (investors and end users), and assuming that the investor’s demand is a function of…
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How The Domain Economic Machine Works – Solving the Pricing Question
Whether you are simply curious about the domain industry or you are a domain veteran who bought his first domain in the 1990s, chances are you are often asking yourself a question. This is the holy grail of the questions, the alchemic secret, the knowledge of which, can grant you the power to transform virtual…
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Industry Interviews – Michael Cyger (DNAcademy)
What happens when a nuclear engineer with entrepreneurial spirit who worked in the best of corporate America, from CitiGroup to General Electric, becomes passionate about domain names? The answer is Michael Cyger. Mike took the domain industry by storm a decade ago after successfully selling his previous business, iSixSigma. In that time, Mike won the…
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Industry Interviews – Morgan Linton (Bold Metrics)
Morgan Linton is the first face I saw in the domain industry, when watching his 5 part video series called Domaining Power Course (published by a young Morgan 11 years ago!). Yet, I only met Morgan in person last year in Lisbon in occasion of NamesCon Europe. We hit it off right away, and it…
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Liquid Domains Overview Q1 2020
Covid 19 started to be a “thing” around mid January. At that time, I was still in Japan, and I remember friends and family in Europe being concerned about the spread of the virus in Asia. Being geographically close to China, Japan was one of the countries affected early by the virus. The virus only…
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Industry Interviews – Yoni Belousov (Original.com)
I met Yoni for the first time on a soccer field in Las Vegas during a friendly match organized by Andy Booth in the occasion of Namescon. The opposing teams had a few well known names in the industry like Shane Cultra, James Morfopoulous, Theo from DomainGang and many others. While the match was quite…
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Industry Interviews – Ron Jackson (DNJournal)
The first time I met Ron Jackson was in an unusual setting. He was sitting on an improvised barber chair in the middle of a conference room at the Domaining Europe conference in Valencia, surrounded by an ecstatic group of people, while his hair was being shaved for charity. What struck me about Ron in…
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LXME Sunset Cruise – The Movie
How is your summer going? Hope you are having a great time! Here in Portugal, Namescon, the domain industry event launched by Richard Lau, which recently merged with Domaining Europe (the event founded by Dietmar Stefitz), closed its European chapter in Cascais, right near Lisbon. It was a joy to have the largest industry players…
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Domains VS Bitcoins
I was working on an article that explains the differences (and similarities) between domain names versus bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies. At one point, the article reached 2,000 words, and I decided that probably you do not need such a lengthy article to get the main points: 1. LIQUIDITY BITCOINS: highly liquid. DOMAINS: ranging from fairly liquid (for…
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From the Roman Empire to China – A Brief History of Domain Names
The Roman Empire Imagine you are a citizen of the ancient Roman Empire. You live in a small farm outside of Rome. Animals and vegetables in your farm provide for food and you store the surplus. Occasionally, you need to buy clothes or utensils, so you go to the local market. Despite the fact that,…
