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The industry is coming off it’s fourth consecutive year of robust growth and that has attracted major capital investors who are attempting to roll up the domain space. In last year’s article the consensus among our panel of experts was that consolidation would continue to be the key force in Will the domain industry continue to enjoy smooth sailing in 2008? We asked more than a dozen experts for their forecast and what they viewed as the most important trends from 2007. 2007, just as it was in 2006. Their forecasts again proved to be on the money. The most recent example of that was this month’s announcement that Oversee.net had acquired Moniker.com. With the ink on that deal barely dry, we felt Moniker CEO Monte Cahn (who signed a long term deal to stay on under Oversee) would be the perfect lead-off man for this year’s round up. In addition to being one of the most popular registrars among domain pros, Moniker permanently changed the industry for the better by pioneering the live auction model that has produced so many high dollar domain sales.