Bret Fausett

[Matt Hartman @ShorealoneFilms]

THE BATTLE HAS BEGUN!

[John Berryhill @Berryhillj]

The point of a bar graph is to visually display proportionate quantitative data. The point of this bar graph is something else entirely. 447 is less than one tenth of 5713. Someone at @WIPO thinks you are stupid.

[Kevin Murphy @DomainIncite]

ICANN maps out new gTLD timeline https://t.co/mJd6AFjQle #icann #icann85 #domains #newgtlds

[John Berryhill @Berryhillj]

If you are using a domain name for personal email, a hobby, or some kind of other personal or family use, you NEED to move it out of @GoDaddy immediately:

[Bret Fausett @BretFausett]

@Berryhillj How about Tuyaks?

[Andrew Rosener 🛒 🔁 @andrewrosener]

Wow! $70 million confirmed sale of the https://t.co/YCLMiEoLQV domain name! Largest domain sale ever publicly disclosed!

Congrats to all involved.

Domains are the greatest and most undervalued assets on Earth!

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

This is the post that ties it all together.

The Only Income Producing Collectible That Can Buy Every Other Collectible

Most investors in collectibles don’t actually own assets.
They own expensive inventory with permanent carrying costs.

Most collectibles are static.
They sit still and wait.

Art, sports cards, and memorabilia are stored assets. They live in vaults and require constant insurance, protection, and oversight just to exist. A thirty-million-dollar trading card may be rare, but it is the most expensive nonfunctional real estate on earth.

At roughly 1% annual insurance, that single card costs about $300,000 a year just to sit there. Over ten years, that is $3 million spent to stand still. No income. No compounding. No leverage. Just cost.

It’s an asset.
It’s also a liability.

Hold it long enough and the math becomes unavoidable. Decades of insurance just to stand still. Millions spent not to grow, but simply not to lose.

Smart investors understand there is a fundamental difference between collectible inventory and operating assets.

One waits.
The other works.

An operating asset doesn’t sit in storage. It operates in public. It compounds. It builds leverage while you sleep.

A great operating asset becomes the front door, the brand, and the world headquarters of the business built on it. It doesn’t just represent value, it becomes the center of gravity everything else builds around.

There are assets that don’t just hold value, but create it.

They generate revenue.
They can be licensed, leased, partnered, and scaled.
They can spawn companies, platforms, and entire ecosystems with virtually unlimited expansion.

Most collectibles only have value if someone else buys them.

If no one shows up, nothing happens.

An operating asset doesn’t wait for a buyer.
It produces. It earns. It compounds.

You don’t hope for an outcome.
You create one.

If your asset can’t work while you sleep, it isn’t an asset.
It’s inventory.

The most valuable assets in the modern world sit at the intersection of language, identity, commerce, and behavior. One word can represent an entire industry. One name can outlive companies, technologies, and trends.

From the right operating asset, you can buy every collectible in the world.
You can’t do it the other way around.

That’s not opinion.
That’s math.

Collectibles are owned.
Operating assets are deployed.

And the most powerful operating assets ever created are high-profile, memorable, brandable, category-defining domain names.

Curious how people outside the domain world see this distinction.

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

Folks, I need your help. Help me help you.

If you’re a domain investor and you agree with what I’ve been laying out this week, I want to be clear about one thing.

Tomorrow’s post, Thursday, is the one that matters.

That’s the bridge post.
It’s written for people outside our world.
Founders. Operators. Real investors.

I’m not asking for comments.
I’m not asking for likes.

I’m asking for a simple repost. No commentary needed.

If this stays inside the domain bubble, nothing changes.
If it travels outside it, everything does.

So let me be clear.
A simple repost. No commentary.

That’s the ask.

In 30 years I’ve never seen domain investors put out a coherent and amplified message designed to break out and shake things up. This is the moment. Changing the context from inventory to income producing collectibles will change the destiny of everyone reading this.

For context, here are the three posts that led up to this.

https://t.co/Ad51eEPE4N

https://t.co/nod2gynff1

https://t.co/oWEfUg0kSu

[Bret Fausett @BretFausett]

@DInvesting @afternic @NameBio @DNJournal I have https://t.co/brLfOPJtmb which is actually a word

[John Berryhill @Berryhillj]

I am seeing so many domain names stolen due to unauthorized or stale GoDaddy "fast transfer" settings. If you care about your domain names, you need to get them the f--- OUT of GoDaddy or any other registrar using "fast transfer".

[John Berryhill @Berryhillj]

@cultra You can stand on a corner trying to sell bottles of urine with "Coca-Cola" written on the label with a Sharpie, and nobody's going to come after you for trademark infringement. There's a reason the web3 domain space is notably free of trademark lawsuits.

[Bret Fausett @BretFausett]

@Berryhillj Their account was compromised?