Founders pick domains based on where the market is. The smart move is picking based on where it's going
There's a pattern that keeps showing up and almost nobody talks about it. Technology moves between regions, adoption follows, companies form, and then suddenly everyone is scrambling for the same domain names in the same category at the same time. By that point the best options are already gone.
We built the Innovation Geography Radar to surface exactly this, tracking how innovations travel across regions using patent citation data, where startup formation is accelerating, and crucially, where the naming layer hasn't caught up yet.
Regions like India, Latin America, and parts of Africa are the sharpest example right now. Ecosystems expanding fast, technologies spreading in, companies forming, but Strategic-Grade domain names still largely unsecured. That gap is the window.
It closes. It always closes. The question is whether you're making domain decisions based on where your market is heading or where it already landed.
What region are you watching right now and do you think the naming layer has caught up there yet?