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Welcome to the The
Lowdown from
DN Journal - your source for notable news
and information from all corners of the global domain name
industry!
The Lowdown
is compiled by DN Journal
Editor & Publisher Ron Jackson. |
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Post
Holiday Round Up: Three Cheers From the Zak
Pack, Prognostications, .XYZ & NFTs!
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I
hope you all had a great holiday
season and that the new
year will turn out to be your
best yet! Today I want to
touch on a few things I didn't
have a chance to write about while
taking full advantage of the
seasonal break to rest and
recharge.
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First,
I wanted to join the loud chorus
of cheers you have been
hearing for Internet
Commerce Association
Legal Counsel, veteran domain
attorney and all around nice guy Zak
Muscovitch. The Canadian
International Internet Dispute
Resolution Centre (CIIDRC) appointed
Zak to its roster of panelists
who decide disputes under ICANN's
UDRP (Uniform Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Policy) and
under CIRA's .ca CDRP
(Canadian Dispute Resolution
Policy). Zak is one of the
world's leading experts in the
field of domain name law.
With over 20 years of experience
and encyclopedic knowledge of the
subject, Zak is a great addition
for CIIDRC.
As
most of you know, Zak has been the
ICA's Legal Counsel for the past
four years and has done such an
outstanding job defending
domain owner's rights, I
think it's past time he have his
own fan club, so consider this
post the launch of the Zak
Pack!
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Zak
Muscovitch
ICA Legal Counsel
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Andrew
Allemann
Domain Name Wire Podcast |
This
being January, it also a time for looking back at
what happened in the year
just past and what the
industry's prospects are
for the new year ahead.
We'll be examining both in
our 18th annual State of
the Industry Cover Story
that will be out in a
couple of weeks.
Meanwhile, Andrew
Allemann has already
released the 2022
Predictions episode
of his popular DNW
Podcast (his is
episode #369)! The show
features audio predictions
from 22 industry
experts (I
was honored to be among
them) that will give you a
good idea of how people
whose livelihood depends on
it think the domain
business will fare in 2022. A
lot of people looking back
on 2021 have been
commenting of the
increasing depth of
the domain aftermarket.
Yes, .com is still
dominant and the gold
standard, but a handful of
non .com gTLDs and ccTLDs
(re-purposed to serve as
generic globally available
extensions, a la .io,
.co, .ai and .me
- to name a few) have
carved out a growing piece
of the aftermarket for
themselves. |
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The strength
of .xyz, especially
in the crypto space, may
have been the biggest
surprise (though certainly
not to Founder Daniel
Negari, who has believed
in it from day one). After
Google picked Alphabet.xyz
as their corporate address
and fintech giant Square
changed their name to Block
and their URL to block.xyz,
the TLD is being viewed in
a new light. Anita
Ramaswamy
at
TechCrunch
did a good job of
explaining what's up with
.xyz in an article
that came out between
Christmas and New Year's
Day. |
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Larry
Fischer
Founder, NFT.net |
In
2022, it looks like NFTs
(non-fungible tokens)
will be creating even more
buzz than crypto, with our
field included because
NFT
domains have
become a thing. As a
digital asset, it's not
surprising to see a lot of
major figures in the
domain industry (built on
digital assets, of course)
taking a big interest in
NFTs. One of the most
visible of those is
veteran domain investor
& broker Larry
Fischer, who has
launched NFT.net,
a central place to
organize, share and
discover NFT art.
When
someone like Larry, who
has made more six and
seven figure domain sales
than most people could
even dream of (including
both Marketing.com
at $2.5 million
and Near.com at $1.15
million in 2021),
goes all in on a new
category like this, people
in this business are going
to pay attention to
it.
As
always, the constant in
this industry is change.
It may be hard to keep up
but it sure keeps things
interesting! |
(Posted
January 4, 2022)
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