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Industry Interviews: Michael Castello (Castello Cities Internet Network)
I recently said in this interview that what I came to love most about the domain industry is the people. Unlike other industries, domain investing attracts people from all walks of life, like Fred Mercaldo, who had a previous career as an art trader, or Ron Jackson, who was an accomplished DJ and TV anchorman.
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Industry Interviews – Fred Mercaldo (Geocentric Media)
My favorite part of the domain conferences are the dinners. You get to sit down with some of the smartest people in the industry, enjoying great food, drinking wine, and trading life stories while picking up gems about how domains – and sometimes life – work. At one of those dinners, organised by the super…
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Industry Interviews – Nat Cohen (Telepathy)
For anyone who has been in the domain industry for a while, Nat Cohen needs no introduction. When we compiled the data for our first Liquid Market Report in 2016, I was surprised to learn that Nat, through his company Telepathy, is one of the largest holders of liquid domains in the world, with over 1,000 3L .com (the…
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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…
