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even it looks
glossy online. The publication is loaded with
excellent articles, interviews with industry
leaders, charts and graphs that dissect every aspect
of the business (old and new) that make it much
easier to take in what is happening in a digital financial
universe that seems to be continually expanding
outward from the Big Bang ignited by .com. Among
those featured in the inaugural issue are veteran
domain investors like Braden Pollock and
Mike Mann who share long lists of example sales
they have made in recent years. There are top
brokers like Giuseppe Graziano (GGRG.com) and
Jack Dai (DN.com) and corporate leaders like
InterNetX CEO Elias Rendón Benger, Todd
Han, Founder of one of the world's fastest
growing registrars - Dynadot, and AEServer.com
Founder Munir Badr who also founded the Domain
Days Dubai conference. These are just a few of
the featured names most of you will already
know. Equally important are the Web3 leaders, like
Freename CEO Davide Vicini and his team, who
are playing an integral role in efforts to open up
new ways to monetize and utilize domains (fractional
ownership being one big example). You
will also find a variety of timely articles led by
the cover piece on The Rise of Domain Finance.
Then there is The Role of AI in Shaping the
Domain Industry by InterNetX's Simone
Catania, and other enlightening details on the
ongoing .ai boom. All of the bases are covered,
including .com, new TLD and ccTLD sales and trends.
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For
me, it was especially refreshing to see one
particular thing The Domain Standard
got right that so many others got wrong over
the past 25 years. If you've been around
that long you've seen various new things
come along that proponents declared
would "make .com obsolete" only
to blow up on the launch pad. While
competition and choice is always a good
thing, they failed to realize that credibility
is even more important and you lose it with
outlandish claims backed by nothing but hot |
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air. Competing
successfully with a colossus like .com and
becoming a viable option requires
bringing something to the market that either
adds value to the .com foundation or
brings enough new value (and proves
it by winning market share) to stand on its
own (as .ai has done). The smartest
people in Web3 know that and are putting in
the intense work needed to build the
structure required to make their vision a
reality. They understand we are not in a
zero-sum game - there is room for many
winners in this arena and The Domain
Standard team has shown they get that by
illuminating and respecting the full
spectrum of possibilities that we are
fortunate to have in front of us now. |
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