Alex Tajirian, President & CEO of DomainMart
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 has written extensively on domain-name
acquisition and negotiation strategies, advertising and marketing,
cybersquatting and phishing solutions, 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 also been engaged as an expert witness
for ecommerce-related litigation support, including federal antitrust
cases, a panelist at the Domain Roundtable Conference, and a speaker
at the Internet
Marketing 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.
Tajirian has appeared on CNet TV and is widely
quoted in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes,
Wired magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle.
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.
A sample of his industry studies and opinions
is available at http://www.domainmart.com/news/studies-opinion.htm.
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