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[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@JensenHuang @nvidia G’day from DownUnder @JensenHuang & welcome to X mate. 😎

You little ripper 🤘👍

What a great first post too 👏👏

Open Source Ai is critical to the ecosystem just as Open Source software has been for the past 35+ years.

I look forward to your future posts Jensen 🙏

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@andrewrosener @abcproductions A horse is a horse of course of course, and no one can talk to a horse of course.

That is of course unless the horse, is the famous Mister Ed!

🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@morganlinton I love where you live too brother. 😂🤘😎

[Jim Penman @Thejimpenman]

Australia runs one of the biggest bureaucracies in the developed world.

We have more public servants per head than almost every country in the OECD. Only France and New Zealand sit above us.

That is not a small inefficiency.

It is a structural one.

Cut the public service in half, and services would not suffer. Stop the harmful regulation on top of that, and you remove two-thirds of it.

Where does the money go instead? Into projects like Snowy 2.0, where the cost has blown out year after year, on contracts that reward delay instead of delivery.

Every dollar of that comes from a household
somewhere. From your rates. From your power bill. From the tax on the work you did this year.

The government does not create that money.

You do. It only spends it.

I am running because I spent 40 years making a business run without waste, and I know the same thing is possible at scale.

What is one thing your taxes pay for that you are certain is being wasted?

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@chiropractic As the owner of https://t.co/2RxX4Kx1Cc & https://t.co/6LrggJt9HQ for the past 17 years & an avid audiobook listener with over 200 in my library, and a domain investor.

I think love them too. 🤘😂😎

Thanks, I will add this book to my library. 📚 👍🙏

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

Thanks for the idea Fred Mercaldo 👏👏 @fmercaldo

https://t.co/vI9GDe3d7Y

Just having some Friday domain name fun with this. 🤘😎

[Rob Kaay @robkaay]

Why auDA’s 2026 ‘Rules Review’ Matters to ‘.com.au’ and ‘.au’ Domain Investors - read this --> https://t.co/LXTbrJRgeI

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

🚨 The Biggest Risk in the 2026 auDA Rules Review Isn’t What Most People Think

As someone who has spent more than 25 years in the domain name industry as both an investor & broker, I fully agree with the concerns raised by my mate Robert Kaay in his analysis of the proposed 2026 auDA Rules Review.

If you’re a domain investor, portfolio owner, broker, registrar, or operate monetised domains, this should concern you.

The Draft Report discusses future allocation rules for .com.au & .net.au.

Buried within the discussion is a potentially significant issue.

The report raises the possibility of deleting or substantially narrowing the flexible “service” pathway contained within Rule 2.4.4(2)(f).

For many domain investors, that rule is critical.

Why?

Because it allows legitimate Australian domain names to satisfy allocation requirements through:

✅ Pay-per-click advertising
✅ Domain parking
✅ Lead generation
✅ Referral services
✅ Domain sales landers
✅ Traffic monetisation

If this pathway were removed or heavily restricted, thousands of domains could potentially become non-compliant overnight.

Let’s be clear.

Pay-per-click advertising is not some obscure loophole.

It is a recognised commercial service.

Under the WIPO Nice Classification system, PPC advertising falls within Class 35, & IP Australia follows the same framework.

This isn’t a new concept.

It’s an established business model that has been part of the Australian domain ecosystem for decades.

Many of the industry’s largest players actively support & profit from these activities.

Registrars & platforms have built businesses around parked domains, PPC advertising, traffic monetisation, domain sales landers & referral services.

These activities generate revenue for registrars, monetisation platforms, investors & the wider domain industry.

So the question becomes:

If these activities have been accepted for decades…

If they’re recognised under international trademark classifications…

If registrars actively promote them…

Why would we consider removing the very rule that allows them to exist?

I’m all for improving the .au namespace & reducing abuse.

But we should be careful not to unintentionally damage a legitimate & long-established sector of Australia’s domain name industry.

If Rule 2.4.4(2)(f) is weakened or removed, the consequences could be far greater than many people realise.

What are your thoughts?

Should PPC, parking, referral & domain sales landers continue to qualify as legitimate services under .com.au allocation rules?

Keen to hear views from domain investors, registrars, brokers & business owners.

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@DomainSherpa @J10enbaum @andrewrosener @mattgould @unstoppableweb JT @J10enbaum, please stop asking Drew @andrewrosener to take uppers before an episode of Sherpa is recorded, I thought his head was going to explode 🤯 in this one! 😂

Great show lads 🤘🙏😎👏

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@EpicClipVault Fuck those Lycra wearing, road hogging, selfish CUNTS! 💩

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@DanielSmidstrup https://t.co/8wqaCMh0Lq

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

Most businesses buy a domain name that describes what they do today. 📍

The world’s biggest brands buy domain names that allow them to become something bigger tomorrow. 🌏

Think about names like Apple, Amazon, Uber, Stripe, Tesla, Canva or Block.

None of those names locked the company into a product, service or industry. 🔓

They became vessels for growth. 📈

That’s what makes https://t.co/asopksiWSS so interesting. 💜

It’s not a keyword. ❌

It’s not a category. ❌

It’s not a trend. ❌

It’s a memorable, globally recognised word with positive associations and enormous brand flexibility. 🌍✨

💄 A beauty brand could own it.
🤖 An Ai company could own it.
💳 A fintech could own it.
🛍️ A retailer could own it.
🏥 A healthcare company could own it.

Or something that hasn’t even been invented yet. 🚀

The best brands don’t describe.

They define. 🎯

💜 https://t.co/asopksiWSS is now available for acquisition through DBR Digital Assets.

📧 [email protected]

What would you build on https://t.co/asopksiWSS? 👇

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

🌍 GLOBAL AMBITIONS REQUIRE GLOBAL DIGITAL REAL ESTATE

When people think about expanding a business internationally, they usually think about:

✈️ New markets

🏢 New offices

👥 New staff

📈 New customers

💰 New investment

Very few think about their domain name.

And that’s a mistake.

Because before a customer visits your office…

Before they meet your team…

Before they buy your product…

Before they speak to a salesperson…

They usually visit your website.

Your domain is often the very first interaction someone has with your brand.

Think about that for a moment.

The physical headquarters of a business may sit in Sydney, London, Singapore or New York.

But its digital headquarters lives on its domain name.

And for global businesses, the .com remains the most recognised digital address on Earth.

🌏 A .com doesn’t belong to a country.

🌏 A .com doesn’t belong to a region.

🌏 A .com doesn’t limit your ambitions.

It speaks the language of global business.

That’s one reason why so many of the world’s largest companies continue to prioritise owning their exact-match .com domains.

They understand that a great domain is more than a marketing asset.

It’s strategic infrastructure.

💡 Imagine building a luxury hotel.

You invest millions in the location.

Millions in the design.

Millions in the customer experience.

Then you put the front entrance down a side alley that nobody expects to use.

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

Yet many businesses do the digital equivalent every day.

Customers hear a brand name and instinctively assume the company owns the .com.

When they don’t, confusion can occur.

Some customers find the right website.

Some don’t.

Some remember the brand.

Some don’t.

And every bit of friction comes at a cost.

🚀 A strong .com helps:

✅ Build international credibility

✅ Increase customer confidence

✅ Improve memorability

✅ Reduce confusion

✅ Strengthen brand authority

✅ Support future expansion

✅ Increase long-term business value

The interesting thing about great domain names is that they become more valuable as a company grows.

The bigger the brand becomes, the more important the digital address becomes.

That’s why so many companies end up spending six, seven or even eight figures acquiring the .com later.

Not because they suddenly discovered domain names.

Because they finally realised how important the right one was.

📍If your ambition is local, your domain strategy may only need to be local.

But if your ambition is global, your domain strategy should probably reflect that.

Because in today’s world, your website isn’t just a website.

It’s your global headquarters.

👇 If you were launching a business with worldwide ambitions today, how important would owning the exact-match .com be to your strategy?

#DotCom
#GlobalBusiness
#BrandStrategy
#DigitalAssets

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@BettyAiProject @morganlinton What an awesome panel Rick 👍👏👏👏😎

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

https://t.co/asopksiWSS Now Available

🟣 One word. One colour. One global brand.

We’re proud to announce that DBR Digital Assets has secured the exclusive brokerage for ** https://t.co/asopksiWSS**.

In a digital world where attention is fragmented and branding is becoming increasingly expensive, the rarest assets continue to stand apart:

✅ Single-word .com domains
✅ Globally recognised dictionary words
✅ Emotionally evocative brands
✅ Instantly memorable identities

https://t.co/asopksiWSS is a rare, globally recognised, emotionally positive, six-letter dictionary-word .com that can become almost anything.

That’s what gives it “empty vessel” value and puts it in the same conversation as elite colour domains like https://t.co/bLaMFMbcEZ, https://t.co/31awORhdAU and https://t.co/xNz0Y7NVDV.

Violet is more than a colour.

It represents creativity, luxury, technology, beauty, wellness, fashion, imagination, spirituality, premium products, and modern digital brands.

The strength of https://t.co/asopksiWSS is that it doesn’t need to be limited to any single industry.

It could become:

💄 A global beauty brand
🤖 An Ai company
🛍️ An e-commerce marketplace
💜 A wellness platform
👗 A fashion label
🎮 A gaming brand
📱 A consumer app
🏦 A fintech business
🧠 A healthtech company
🌎 A next-generation technology company

Some of the world’s most valuable companies operate on simple, memorable, category-defining words.

A domain like https://t.co/asopksiWSS offers immediate credibility, instant recall, global reach, and a brand foundation that would take years and millions of dollars to replicate through advertising alone.

There are millions of businesses.

There is only one https://t.co/asopksiWSS.

Serious acquisition enquiries can be directed to:

📧 [email protected]

or DM me here on LinkedIn 👍

#DomainNames #Branding #DigitalAssets #Violet #DomainBroker

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE BROKERAGE SECURED — https://t.co/i20llG8w9m 🚨

Some domain names are marketed.

Others simply exist… and the right buyer already knows the value.

We’ve secured the exclusive brokerage for https://t.co/i20llG8w9m, a rare two-letter .com.au domain asset now available via DBR.

Why do names like this matter?

Because premium short domains are:
✅ Easier to remember
✅ Faster to type
✅ Stronger in branding
✅ Often aligned with existing company initials
✅ Scarce by nature

Potential buyers or industries that could benefit from https://t.co/i20llG8w9m include:

🏥 Healthcare
Possibly the most obvious fit:
• Health companies
• Hospitals
• Health insurance groups
• Healthcare technology
• Home Care services
• Community Health organisations

🏗️ Construction & Property
• HC Holdings
• HC Construction
• Housing companies
• Development groups

💼 Corporate / Investment Groups
• Holding Companies
• Holdings Corporations
• HC Capital
• HC Advisory

🏨 Hospitality
• Hotel collections
• Hospitality consulting
• Hotel chains

⚖️ Professional Services
• HC Legal
• HC Consulting
• HC Accounting
• HC Recruitment

🤖 Technology & Ai
• Hybrid Cloud
• Human-Centred Ai
• Hyper Compute
• Hosting & Cloud businesses

The interesting thing with ultra-short domains…

Their value often comes less from what the letters mean today and more from who eventually wants to own them tomorrow.

A premium domain can become:

📍 Your digital headquarters
📈 A long-term business asset
🛡️ A trust signal
🎯 A competitive advantage

Because sometimes the shortest names leave the biggest impression.

https://t.co/i20llG8w9m — Available exclusively via DBR.

📩 Enquiries: [email protected]
🌐 Available at: https://t.co/T449VVVpdX
or DM me here on X.

#DomainNames #PremiumDomains #DigitalAssets #BrandStrategy

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

You’re going to need the lyrics too brother-

Lakeside
Song by Australian Crawl ‧ 1981

I said, hey, do you remember
Where we used to sit?
All them summer rubber-necks kept coming
To panel-van street
We just yacht club dancing, city girls were rich
I'm going to sneak out my window at four in the morning
Going to meet them on the beach
Lakeside, lakeside, lakeside
Steal away, hide away
Lakeside, lakeside, lakeside
I just can't wait, I just can't wait
I got a terrific Torana
A green hand going to wave bye-bye
I got a C.B. shuffle and a dashboard muffle
Pilot's twitch my eye
I've seen them from the mallway, supermarket spy
From the frozen goods section, the delicatessen
I've seen them racing by
They're going to wallow in the shallows
Great puce hippo
Bar-be-que and blubber
Please don't show, please don't show
They're going to steal my sand space
Out where the comperes go
You shoulda seen 'em bathers!
No hero, no hero
I said, hey, do you remember
Going cruising for a nude?
Spot-pickin'em, sand kicken'em
All the lousy and the lewd

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@morganlinton And this classic early 80s song by one of the great Aussie bands, Australian Crawl (aka Aussie Crawl) and the song befitting your photos, Lakeside.

Enjoy mate. 🤘🙌😎

https://t.co/qyK5KAald8

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

@morganlinton Nothing like a bit of sand up your bum crack & other places, to remind you that you’re alive Morgan. 😜😂🏖️

[Ed Keay-Smith - Domain Name Broker & Investor. @OnlineImpactOz]

Morgan, fuck that guy!

He is the real TOOL in this conversation.

Pricks like him are either the thorns that deflate you, or the PRICKS that spur you on brother!

Don’t change YOU because of some dickhead on X.

Gutless keyboard warriors are such cowards. In person, he would be like a mouse & piss his pants.

Always got your back mate. 👍🤘😎