Alex Tajirian

Alex Tajirian

CEO at DomainMart
Joined on December 8, 2004 – United States
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About

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 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.

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  • Comment posted Nov 08, 2008 6:34 pm PST — by Alex Tajirian
    Mark, thanks!

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DNSDomain NamesTop-Level DomainsRegistry ServicesCybersquattingLawICANNCybercrimeInternet GovernanceSecurityWebRegional RegistriesEnumPolicy & RegulationWhoisBroadbandAccess ProvidersTelecomNet NeutralityP2PPrivacySpamCyberattackMalwareMultilinguismEmailVoIPMobile

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