Alex Tajirian

Alex Tajirian is the CEO and founder of DomainMart, the first domain name secondary market, established in 1996.

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. Tajirian has seventeen years of academic and practical experience. He has taught finance at the Graduate School of Business (Haas School) at U. C. Berkeley, and Business Policy and Strategy at U.C. Berkeley'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 industry models and estimation procedures including: valuation based on pay-per-click (PPC); statistical regression-trees to estimate the likelihood of sale given an ask price and liquidation value; sources and estimates of premiums among gTLDs; statistical domain name suggestion tools; and traffic monetization. He has also been engaged in the following industry activities: an expert witness in a number of ecommerce-related litigation support, including federal antitrust cases; and a panelist at the Domain Roundtable Conference.

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.

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