Giuseppe Graziano, the Founder & CEO of Lisbon, Portugal based domain brokerage and consultancy firm GGRG.com, has enjoyed a lot of success since entering this industry as the Director of European Business Development for Domain Holdings in 2012. He moved on to found his own shop in 2014 and in 2016 Escrow.com gave him a Master of Domains Award as one  of the top 3 highest-grossing domain brokers in the world. 

A lot of Giuseppe's success comes from being able to easily serve clients around the world because he speaks five languages and has lived in five different countries across three continents. He also holds a Masters Degree in International Management from Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

In addition to being known for his skills as a broker and consultant, industry pros appreciate the data Graziano collects, analyzes and publishes in his popular quarterly industry report on liquid domain sales titled LXDO. 

Giuseppe Graziano
Founder & CEO, GGRG.com

Now, Giuseppe is expanding his publishing activity with the launch today of a new series of interviews aimed at giving industry newcomers and veterans alike more insight into the domain business and how others have made a living in it.

I was honored to be asked to be the subject of Giuseppe's first article in that series, published earlier today. He told me the invitation came because he had been a long time fan of DNJournal.com, especially the many biographical Cover Stories we've done over the years. Graziano went on to say he thought being able to read our stories about Domain Holdings Co-Founders John Ferber and Chad Folkening before interviewing with the company helped him land the job there (he was also a big fan of a 2017 Cover Story about Domain Holdings Senior VP Alan Dunn with whom he also worked before starting GGRG).

For my part, having Giuseppe put me on the opposite side of the interview table felt a little odd, but it was fun re-tracing the journey from radio DJ, to TV reporter to record store owner to the domain business and DNJournal.com. It also brought home how incredibly fast so many decades have flown by. As I told Giuseppe, the positive thing about that was gaining an even greater appreciation for the precious time every new day gives us. At this very moment almost all of us around the world are being threatened by a deadly virus that could bring any of our stories to an immediate end. Tomorrow is promised to no one - so do everything you can to make the most of today (but for the time being at least, make sure you are doing that at home)!

A photo from Giuseppe Graziano's interview article with Ron Jackson 
(who is disrupting a 1980 publicity photo shoot at the ABC-TV station in Sarasota, Florida).

You can read Giuseppe Graziano's article here.