Sometimes one can stumble and bumble their way into domain investing due to launching a side venture.

Today’s podcast guest is the very epitome of stumbling into domain investing by way of having launched a basketball camp for kids.

What is the next “big thing” on the horizon? This often tends to be the never-ending question about many things in life, domains included decade after decade, year after year.

There are many big moments in and throughout the history of tech, especially when considering domains and their role in the existence of the Internet.

One of the latest topics up for discussion amidst a world of civil unrest and #CancelCulture is the birthing and formation of a decentralized internet — the web 3.0.

From the legacy domains in a centralized structure of management to the decentralized management of handshake domains, the Handshake domain ecosystem is steadily growing day after day.

Can legacy and Handshake domains coexist in a new web ecosystem?

There aren’t many domain investors today that can claim they sold a domain or had a domain purchased by the Domain King himself, Rick Schwartz, especially when in the infancy of their domain journey.

In addition, not many domain investors can claim to have made the finalist list for a Verisign .com domain contest, but today’s podcast guest realized both.

Many domain investors often keep a tight rein on their investing strategy(ies) and overall results. Some investors claim anonymity as to not draw attention to just how lucrative their strategies.

But then there are domain investors that are an open book. They willingly share the good, the bad, and the ugly of domain investing they’ve encountered along the way.

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At approximately 4:05 pm Tuesday afternoon, Hal Yaffe created an impromptu Clubhouse room: LIVE Domain sales action. Let’s make a deal now! 1,200 .coms.

Hal had one goal in sight: to see if anyone would join the room. He sat in this room in complete silence for 5 minutes before anyone joined.

It was wasn’t long before people began trickling into the room to talk domains. As talks progressed amongst clubbers, a few domains were swapped and then sold.

And in the blink of an eye, the room filled with veterans and newcomers stepping up to the stage in hopes of buying and selling .com domains, averaging 80-90 persons in the room and nearly 700 passing through the room over a six hour time period.

One likely thinks of book publishing as archaic or somewhat out of touch and date to the fast-paced nature of the ever-changing internet.

Now marry the inventions of various digital technology, smartphones, tablets, and more, to that of the book industry, and boom: a self-publishing revolution is born. It has never been easier for a person to communicate and dialogue in mass and across the globe thanks to self-publishing.

Now you may be thinking, “But Alvin, what does self-publishing have to do with domain investing?”

Well, I’m glad you asked because today’s guest has strategically married both self-publishing and domain investing industries to realize profitability — with bullish growth ahead based on key indicators.