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The Walt Disney Company posted a job listing on LinkedIn and is looking to hire a Domain Names Management Program Manager. This is an important corporate domain name management role as Disney operates many different brands and companies in a wide variety of industries.

Here’s an excerpt from the overview of this job post:

In a recession, there are a few levers a domain investor can do to preserve capital and increase runway if it becomes necessary. Slowing or halting domain name acquisitions, portfolio downsizing, and selling domain names at reduced prices are the three levers that will have the biggest impact on cash preservation for a typical domain investor portfolio.

Reducing acquisition spend may be the easiest way to save cash for a business that spends a substantial amount of money on domain acquisitions and registrations. I typically spend a lot of money on domain acquisitions each year, and reducing my spend would have the greatest impact on cash preservation for my business. Other people may look at halting domain registrations as a means of preserving cash.

In the small city in New Hampshire where I grew up, we would get a lot of snow in the Winter. Each Winter, we would get a handful of “snow days” off from school when enough snow fell overnight to make it difficult for the school buses to pick up kids and drive them to school.

When the school district would cancel school for the day due to the snow, we would hear a loud foghorn blast several times at 6am. Of course, the announcement would run across the screen on the local news that morning, but hearing the foghorn meant we didn’t need to get out of bed early for school.

Citi, one of the world’s largest financial companies, is looking to hire a Domain Administration Analyst. The job listing was posted on LinkedIn about a month ago, and there are a handful of applicants so far. I think this job would be desirable for someone with domain management experience looking for a corporate job related to domain names.

Here’s an excerpt from the LinkedIn post that describes the job opening:

I read an article in Ad Age about brands purchasing crypto domain names. The article mentioned some major brands that acquired domain names in the .Eth extension that matched their brand name or trademark. There are other crypto extensions like .crypto, .nft, .bitcoin, and many more.

Crypto domain investing seems pretty similar to old school domain investing. People can purchase domain names speculatively with the hopes of selling them to someone willing to pay more. The difference, of course, is crypto domain names are on the blockchain and legacy domain extensions like .com and .org are not. In addition, crypto domain names do not resolve to websites on most web browsers. For instance, if you type in Budweiser.eth on Chrome, you won’t get to a website but you may end up on a Google search for that term.

I am curious to know how much overlap there is between people who invest in crypto domain names and people who invest in legacy domain names. Do most people choose one or the other or is there generally a combination of both. I would be interested to know if many people got started buying crypto-related assets and migrated to crypto domain names or if legacy domain name investors saw an opportunity with crypto domain names and added those to the portfolio.

Please vote in the Twitter poll embedded below and feel free to share more about how you got started investing in crypto domain names or why you have chosen not to buy them:

Poll to learn more about the overlap of crypto and legacy domain name investing. More context in my article: https://t.co/qdHItSMTap

— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) June 21, 2022