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I'm used
to being the one that asks the questions but
Andrew turned the tables on me with this invitation. I think it was to
get even with me for grilling him for 3 hours
on a 2023 Zoom call asking the questions that
produced one of our most widely-read cover stories
ever - Andrew
Rosener's Amazing Ride From Historic New England to
Domain Sales Nirvana.
Further evidence that
retribution was his primary goal came when JT began
the discussion by noting it was a DomainSherpa
Short (a series of briefer interviews with one
person as opposed to Sherpa's usual panel discussion
format). An hour and 20 minutes later the
"short" was still going on with Andrew
smiling way too much along the way (JT was clearly
in on it too).
Clockwise
from top left, JT, Andrew and Ron
I tried to
avoid the inquisition by starting with an absurdly
long monologue, assuming that if they couldn't get a
word in edgewise, I would have fewer embarrassing
questions to answer. In the end that tactic failed
because even I got tired of listening to myself
ramble! From that point on we covered a lot of
interesting ground regarding how far the industry
has come and where we're headed now. That
is also the topic of our new 2026
State of the Industry Cover Story that
features 29 experts from every corner of the
industry, notably including JT himself (read
his insightful comments here).
I usually have Andrew in it most years too, but for
some reason he insists on spending some of his time selling
domain names rather than taking 3-hour calls
from me. Go figure! However, in that way, I guess
I've played a role in keeping his mind on business,
so you could say I'm partly responsible for him
being the world's #1 broker on the
Escrow.com platform for an unprecedented 7
years in a row! Near
the end of the new Sherpa episode I did manage to
restore the natural order of things by asking Drew a
question. He has built a world class domain
portfolio of his own over the years and acquired
enough capital to look into diversifying into other
assets as well. So, I wanted to know what assets had
he found that would be a better investment than
domains at this point in time? His detailed
answer to that topic and explanation of "the
compression of value" was undoubtedly the
highlight of the episode and something no one should
miss (feel free to fast forward past the guy in the
black shirt to get to the good stuff)! You can enjoy
the new DomainSherpa
episode here - and a big thank you to
Andrew and JT for the always enlightening
conversation!
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