Alex Tajirian is CEO of DomainMart. He launched the first domain-name secondary market in 1996. He has since pioneered the development of a number of domain-name valuation models and has written extensively on domain-name acquisition and negotiation strategies, advertising and marketing, solutions to cybersquatting and phishing, direct navigation, market structure, monetization, investment, and protection.
After completing his Ph.D. course work in economics at U.C. Berkeley, Tajirian joined Bank of America as a visiting scholar responsible for providing quantitative support to the trading floor. During his seventeen years of academic and practical experience, he has also taught finance at U. C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Business (Haas School) and business policy and strategy as part of the university’s Worldwide Programs. His nonacademic experience includes consulting experience with Morgan Stanley, Treynor-Arbit Associates, Financiometrics, and BARRA on financial-risk monitoring and valuation.
He has been invited to be a judge for the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. And has also been engaged as an expert witness for ecommerce-related litigation support, including federal antitrust cases, a panelist at the Domain Roundtable Conference, a speaker at the Internet Marketing Conference, and invited to speak at the Internet Show Middle East on social media marketing.
The Honorable W. Allen Pepper, Jr., a United States district judge, has qualified Tajirian as a federal expert witness meeting the Daubert standard for domain name valuations.
He has been retained for domain name related engagements by number of law firms including: Buter, Buzard, Fishbein & Royce, LLP; Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP; Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.; Gevurtz Menashe, P.C.; and Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.
Retained to value the new Arabic TLD ???? (xn—4gbrim) – Arabic for “site”.
He is also a member of the board of Third World Enterprises Ltd., a leader in the acquisition and online distribution of reggae-related intellectual property.
For a sample of his industry studies and opinions click here.
Except where otherwise noted, all postings by Alex Tajirian on CircleID are licensed under a Creative Commons License.
| 2018 - Jun 14 | on | Leveraging Traffic Statistics to Manage Corporate Domain Portfolios |
| 2018 - Jun 14 | on | Leveraging Traffic Statistics to Manage Corporate Domain Portfolios |
| 2018 - Jun 14 | on | Leveraging Traffic Statistics to Manage Corporate Domain Portfolios |
| 2018 - Apr 05 | on | Facebook vs. Domain Names: Lessons from Cambridge Analytica |
| 2018 - Apr 03 | on | Facebook vs. Domain Names: Lessons from Cambridge Analytica |
| 2018 - Mar 29 | on | Leveraging Trademark Data to Drive Domain Name Strategy |
| 2017 - Nov 30 | on | New gTLDs and Concept of a Universal Directory |
| 2017 - Nov 30 | on | New gTLDs and Concept of a Universal Directory |
| 2017 - Sep 10 | on | Making Sense of the Domain Name Market - and Its Future |
| 2017 - Sep 06 | on | Making Sense of the Domain Name Market - and Its Future |
| 2017 - Jul 28 | on | How Much Should Startups Budget for a Decent Domain Name? |
| 2017 - Jul 28 | on | How Much Should Startups Budget for a Decent Domain Name? |
| 2017 - Jun 30 | on | Cars.com $850 Million Valuation: Methodology Critique |
| 2017 - Jun 23 | on | Breaking the Mold: Reclassifying Over a Billion .XYZ Domains for Alternative Uses |
| 2017 - Jun 23 | on | The Future Internet I Want for Me, Myself and AI |
| 2017 - May 17 | on | Digital Identity and Branding: The Five Most Common Mistakes in Naming |
| 2017 - May 15 | on | Dot-Com is Still King - of Domain Name Disputes |
| 2017 - May 08 | on | A Lesson from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Domain Name Disputes |
| 2017 - May 07 | on | SEO Secrets of Keyword-Relevant Domain Extensions |
| 2017 - May 04 | on | Dot-Com is Still King - of Domain Name Disputes |
| 2017 - Jan 11 | on | Should You Pay Ransomware Demands? |
| 2016 - Dec 28 | on | Confusing New gTLDs |
| 2016 - Dec 26 | on | Confusing New gTLDs |
| 2016 - Dec 26 | on | Confusing New gTLDs |
| 2016 - Dec 05 | on | Excessive Offers to Sell Domain Names: Evidence of Bad Faith or Bona Fide Business Practice? |
| 2016 - Dec 04 | on | Excessive Offers to Sell Domain Names: Evidence of Bad Faith or Bona Fide Business Practice? |
| 2015 - Sep 01 | on | Online Reviews Provide Insights into gTLD Customers' Needs |
| 2015 - Aug 26 | on | World Body Declares Cyber Security Top Issue |
| 2015 - Aug 17 | on | Making Sense of Google's .xyz gTLD Branding |
| 2015 - Jul 09 | on | Never Invited, but Always Present |
| 2015 - Jun 26 | on | Is .SUCKS Pricing Model Gaining Traction With Other Registries? |
| 2015 - Jun 19 | on | Understanding the Threat Landscape: Cyber-Attack Actors and Motivations |
| 2015 - Jun 18 | on | Is Sharing the Answer to .BRAND Top Level Domain Disputes? |
| 2015 - Jun 17 | on | Pricing & Promotions of TLDs - Is Your Billing System Holding You Back? |
| 2015 - Jun 17 | on | Dot Brands Should Not Rush to Market, but Build Effective Strategies First |
| 2015 - Jun 17 | on | Pricing & Promotions of TLDs - Is Your Billing System Holding You Back? |
| 2015 - May 07 | on | Live Streaming Apps: Piracy Trends Are-A-Changing |
| 2015 - May 04 | on | The Economics of Magic |
| 2015 - Apr 30 | on | The Internet of Stupid Things |
| 2015 - Apr 30 | on | Competition for Monopoly gTLDs |
| 2015 - Apr 23 | on | Metrics for New gTLDs Performance |
| 2015 - Apr 23 | on | Metrics for New gTLDs Performance |
| 2015 - Apr 17 | on | Is Upping the Minimum Wage Good for the Information Security Industry? |
| 2015 - Apr 07 | on | Premium Generics, the Domain Industry's Luxury Goods |
| 2015 - Apr 07 | on | Active and Passive Internet of Things |
| 2015 - Mar 30 | on | Low Cost Economy Depends on Ubiquitous Affordable High Speed Broadband |
| 2015 - Mar 26 | on | Consumers Are the Serfs of the Feudal Internet Companies |
| 2015 - Mar 05 | on | Google Chose to Win .APP in an ICANN Auction for $25m - Why? |
| 2015 - Mar 04 | on | Google Chose to Win .APP in an ICANN Auction for $25m - Why? |
| 2015 - Mar 04 | on | CMO Offers Fresh View on New gTLDs: "They're a Channel, Not Just a Label" |
| 2015 - Mar 03 | on | The DNS Still Isn't a Directory |
| 2015 - Mar 03 | on | Could Net Neutrality be to Investments in the Internet What AT&T's Regulation was to Bell Labs? |
| 2015 - Feb 28 | on | CMO Offers Fresh View on New gTLDs: "They're a Channel, Not Just a Label" |
| 2015 - Feb 07 | on | We're Asking the Wrong Questions |
| 2015 - Feb 06 | on | We're Asking the Wrong Questions |
| 2015 - Feb 04 | on | .cancerresearch - Can a New TLD Beat a Global Disease? |
| 2015 - Jan 16 | on | Branding with New gTLDs: The Next Marketing Frontier |
| 2015 - Jan 13 | on | New gTLDs Show Promising SEO Performance |
| 2015 - Jan 13 | on | .brands - Nobody Said It Was Easy |
| 2015 - Jan 09 | on | I Spoke to a .TAXI Driver |
| 2015 - Jan 08 | on | I Spoke to a .TAXI Driver |
| 2014 - Nov 23 | on | Experience and Evidence Point to Strong Renewal Rates for New TLDs |
| 2014 - Oct 12 | on | Where Is Cyberspace? |
| 2014 - Oct 11 | on | New gTLDs' Sales Force a Bottleneck? |
| 2014 - Oct 08 | on | 5 Common Misconceptions New Registries Have About Domain Revenue |
| 2014 - Oct 02 | on | New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge |
| 2014 - Oct 01 | on | So you want to apply for a new gTLD in the second Round of the ICANN new gTLD program? |
| 2014 - Oct 01 | on | New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge |
| 2014 - Sep 30 | on | New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge |
| 2014 - Sep 25 | on | So you want to apply for a new gTLD in the second Round of the ICANN new gTLD program? |
| 2014 - Sep 25 | on | So you want to apply for a new gTLD in the second Round of the ICANN new gTLD program? |
| 2014 - Sep 24 | on | Big Data Stress? Go Zen With These 5 Technologies |
| 2014 - Sep 14 | on | The Coding of Online Brand Protection |
| 2014 - Aug 20 | on | Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs |
| 2014 - Aug 20 | on | Is racing.com a Half-Million Dollar Mistake for Racing Victoria? |
| 2014 - Aug 16 | on | Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs |
| 2014 - Jul 15 | on | Where Are the Registrars With New gTLDs on the Mobile Web? |
| 2014 - Jul 13 | on | Where Are the Registrars With New gTLDs on the Mobile Web? |
| 2014 - Jun 16 | on | Alternatives for .COM ? (Part 1) |
| 2014 - Jun 02 | on | Alternatives for .COM ? (Part 1) |
| 2014 - May 26 | on | Demystifying Premium Domain Names |
| 2014 - May 24 | on | Demystifying Premium Domain Names |
| 2014 - May 17 | on | New gTLDs: Is Internationalism the Solution? |
| 2014 - May 16 | on | New gTLDs: Is Internationalism the Solution? |
| 2014 - May 16 | on | New gTLDs Will Work Way Better Than Vanity Domains Did |
| 2014 - May 08 | on | Still Think .brands Might Be a Waste of Time? Google Doesn't! |
| 2014 - May 07 | on | Still Think .brands Might Be a Waste of Time? Google Doesn't! |
| 2014 - Mar 19 | on | Registration Numbers Not the Only Success Measure for New TLDs |
| 2014 - Mar 11 | on | AdDomains: A New Weapon for Traditional Advertising |
| 2014 - Mar 03 | on | ICANN's Uniform Rapid Suspension: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| 2014 - Mar 01 | on | ICANN's Uniform Rapid Suspension: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| 2014 - Feb 18 | on | Who Are the Major New gTLD Applicants and... (Part Three: Minds + Machines) |
| 2014 - Feb 16 | on | Luddites of the 21St Century Unite? |
| 2014 - Feb 10 | on | IPv6 and the Browser Wars |
| 2014 - Feb 07 | on | More Problems Crop Up With Universal Acceptance of Top Level Domains |
| 2014 - Feb 07 | on | Luddites of the 21St Century Unite? |
| 2014 - Feb 07 | on | More Problems Crop Up With Universal Acceptance of Top Level Domains |
| 2014 - Jan 27 | on | Exploring the Various Options of Private gTLD Auctions |
| 2014 - Jan 27 | on | New gTLDs: What About 10 Years Ago? |
| 2014 - Jan 22 | on | Inside Bitcoins |
| 2014 - Jan 22 | on | 6 Domain Name Industry Developments to Lookout for in 2014 |
| 2014 - Jan 17 | on | Broadband and Household Income |
| 2014 - Jan 16 | on | Broadband and Household Income |
| 2014 - Jan 16 | on | Broadband and Household Income |
| 2014 - Jan 15 | on | Inside Bitcoins |
| 2014 - Jan 13 | on | Inside Bitcoins |
| 2014 - Jan 13 | on | Inside Bitcoins |
| 2014 - Jan 03 | on | Think ICANN Will End Up Rolling in New gTLD Cash? Think Again! |
| 2013 - Dec 11 | on | How to .DOWNLOAD Banging Tunes, Sick Movies and Nasty Apps |
| 2013 - Dec 11 | on | How to .DOWNLOAD Banging Tunes, Sick Movies and Nasty Apps |
| 2013 - Oct 01 | on | Phishing: A Look Into the E-Crime Landscape |
| 2013 - Oct 01 | on | Looking Internally for the Success of Your TLD Strategy |
| 2013 - Aug 15 | on | Singular and Plural New gTLDs: Costly Headaches |
| 2012 - May 08 | on | Wall Street and Virtual Space Data: Internet Domain Name Index (IDNX) Listed on Bloomberg, Reuters |
| 2012 - Mar 04 | on | Last Minute Tips for a Solid gTLD Application |
| 2012 - Feb 23 | on | Last Minute Tips for a Solid gTLD Application |
| 2011 - Nov 22 | on | Why the Lawsuit Against .XXX Maybe the Best Sales Tool Ever For New gTLD Applicants |
| 2011 - Nov 19 | on | Why the Lawsuit Against .XXX Maybe the Best Sales Tool Ever For New gTLD Applicants |
| 2011 - Nov 19 | on | Why the Lawsuit Against .XXX Maybe the Best Sales Tool Ever For New gTLD Applicants |
| 2011 - Nov 13 | on | New TLD Spotted - .FUD |
| 2011 - Oct 27 | on | What Will Be the Magic Number for New gTLD Applications? |
| 2011 - Oct 24 | on | Big Brands Should Embrace New TLDs & Stop Giving Away Money |
| 2011 - Jul 15 | on | New TLDs: Finance Dept. Role, Part 2 |
| 2011 - Jul 15 | on | New TLDs: Finance Dept. Role, Part 2 |
| 2011 - Apr 29 | on | What Next for Email Service Providers? |
| 2010 - Nov 05 | on | Understand the Value of Defensive Domain Registrations |
| 2010 - Nov 05 | on | .YourBrand Now! |
| 2010 - Nov 03 | on | .YourBrand Now! |
| 2010 - Oct 28 | on | Why App Stores Won't Survive |
| 2010 - Oct 08 | on | A Case for Limited New TLD Flavors |
| 2010 - Oct 06 | on | A Case for Limited New TLD Flavors |
| 2010 - Sep 30 | on | Come to the First Ever Dedicated New gTLD Conference: .nxt |
| 2010 - Sep 30 | on | A Case for Limited New TLD Flavors |
| 2010 - Sep 30 | on | Come to the First Ever Dedicated New gTLD Conference: .nxt |
| 2010 - Sep 27 | on | A Case for Limited New TLD Flavors |
| 2010 - Sep 21 | on | Outages Never Sleep! |
| 2010 - Sep 21 | on | Outages Never Sleep! |
| 2010 - Sep 17 | on | Why I Support Canadian Presence Requirements for .CA Domain Names |
| 2010 - Sep 17 | on | Why I Support Canadian Presence Requirements for .CA Domain Names |
| 2010 - Sep 16 | on | Why I Support Canadian Presence Requirements for .CA Domain Names |
| 2010 - Apr 07 | on | AFNIC Publishes New Issue Paper on "the Secondary Market in Domain Names" |
| 2009 - Dec 22 | on | End of Domain Name Auction Sites |
| 2009 - Dec 07 | on | Unlimited VoIP Offers Starting to Appear in Africa |
| 2009 - Nov 13 | on | Email's Not Dead, Neither is Spam |
| 2009 - Nov 11 | on | Dot-Biz Saga |
| 2009 - Oct 10 | on | Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail Compromised - But How? |
| 2009 - Oct 07 | on | Risk of Portfolio Approach to Cybersquatting |
| 2009 - Oct 02 | on | DHS Asks Citizens to Practice Good "Cyber Hygiene" |
| 2009 - Aug 24 | on | Helping Banks Fight Phishing and Account Fraud, Whether They Like It or Not |
| 2009 - Aug 22 | on | Corporate Domain Registration Practices in Light of New gTLDs |
| 2009 - Aug 18 | on | Examininng Value in New ICANN TLDs on Search and Navigation, Companies, Domain Registries |
| 2009 - Aug 14 | on | Why Can't We Make the Internet Secure? |
| 2009 - Jul 27 | on | A Framework for Selecting New TLDs |
| 2009 - Jul 24 | on | Trademark Attorneys Warn Companies About the Upcoming .CM Cybersquatting Possibilities |
| 2009 - Jun 08 | on | Cyber Security and the White House, Part 2 - Cyberwarfare |
| 2009 - May 26 | on | Blame Yourself, Not ICANN |
| 2009 - Apr 05 | on | Complicating ICANN's New TLDs Decision |
| 2009 - Feb 17 | on | Resolving the ICANN-Proposed TLDs Debate |
| 2009 - Feb 12 | on | Logical Deduction on Why New TLDs Will Not Increase Costs for Trademark Holders |
| 2009 - Feb 12 | on | Analysis of Domain Names Registered Across Multiple Existing TLDs and Implications for New gTLDs |
| 2009 - Feb 04 | on | Logical Deduction on Why New TLDs Will Not Increase Costs for Trademark Holders |
| 2009 - Feb 02 | on | Analysis of Domain Names Registered Across Multiple Existing TLDs and Implications for New gTLDs |
| 2009 - Jan 19 | on | The Perpetual Peril of Open Platforms |
| 2008 - Dec 26 | on | What Could the RIAA's Switch in Strategy Mean? |
| 2008 - Dec 21 | on | Predicting Domain Name Trademark Infringement |
| 2008 - Dec 04 | on | Voluntary Collective Licensing of Brand-Sharing Domain Names |
| 2008 - Dec 01 | on | ICANN Responsible for Domain Name Trademark Mess |
| 2008 - Nov 28 | on | ICANN Responsible for Domain Name Trademark Mess |
| 2008 - Nov 24 | on | ICA Anti-Phishing Victory Might Be a Curse! |
| 2008 - Nov 15 | on | Susan Crawford, Kevin Werbach Named Obama's FCC Review Team Leads |
| 2008 - Nov 09 | on | ICA Anti-Phishing Victory Might Be a Curse! |
| 2008 - Nov 08 | on | ICA Anti-Phishing Victory Might Be a Curse! |
| 2008 - Nov 08 | on | ICA Anti-Phishing Victory Might Be a Curse! |
| 2008 - Oct 03 | on | Who Should Bear Domain Name Risk? |
| 2008 - Oct 03 | on | Who Should Bear Domain Name Risk? |
| 2008 - Oct 02 | on | Who Should Bear Domain Name Risk? |
| 2008 - Sep 05 | on | Domain Name Lessons from Napster |
| 2008 - Aug 07 | on | Gartner on New Generic Top Level Domains |
| 2008 - Jul 21 | on | The Patent That Justifies Microsoft's Interest in Yahoo! |
| 2008 - Jul 15 | on | Gartner on New Generic Top Level Domains |
| 2008 - Jul 08 | on | The Patent That Justifies Microsoft's Interest in Yahoo! |
| 2008 - Jun 21 | on | It's Time to End Domain Name Front Running |
| 2008 - May 31 | on | Do We Need Two Internets? |
| 2008 - May 28 | on | Do We Need Two Internets? |
| 2008 - May 28 | on | Do We Need Two Internets? |
| 2008 - Apr 22 | on | Will Technology Solve Network Neutrality? |
| 2008 - Apr 09 | on | Why Telcos Don't Get Networks |
| 2008 - Mar 05 | on | The Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008 |
| 2008 - Mar 05 | on | ICA Posts Position Paper and Analysis of Snowe "Anti-Phishing" Legislation |
| 2008 - Feb 28 | on | Typosquatting: A Solution |
| 2008 - Feb 27 | on | Typosquatting: A Solution |
| 2008 - Feb 22 | on | Why Regulate Cable Internet Access |
| 2008 - Feb 22 | on | Typosquatting: A Solution |
| 2008 - Feb 18 | on | Typosquatting: A Solution |
| 2008 - Feb 17 | on | Typosquatting: A Solution |
| 2008 - Feb 14 | on | Typosquatting: A Solution |
| 2008 - Feb 14 | on | Typosquatting: A Solution |
| 2008 - Feb 14 | on | Typosquatting: A Solution |
| 2007 - Nov 18 | on | Best Approach for Appraising Domain Names |
| 2007 - Nov 16 | on | Best Approach for Appraising Domain Names |
| 2007 - Oct 31 | on | Best Approach for Appraising Domain Names |
| 2007 - Oct 25 | on | Are Domain Name Portfolios Actually Worth What They Are Touted to Be? |
| 2007 - Oct 19 | on | I, the Domain Name Tasting Victim |
| 2007 - Oct 03 | on | Every Domainer Is Subsidizing Tasting... Abolish Registration Grace Period |
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