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.
Alex Tajirian launched the first domain-name secondary market in 1996. He has since pioneered the development of a number of domain-name valuation models and estimation procedures using regression trees and has written extensively on domain-name acquisition and negotiation strategies, advertising and marketing, cybersquatting solutions, direct navigation, market structure, monetization, investment, and protection.
He has also been engaged as an expert witness for ecommerce-related litigation support, including federal antitrust cases, and as a panelist at the Domain Roundtable Conference.
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 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.
