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Christian Koch liked thisChristian Koch liked thisNumber 1 in Germany! 🚀❤️ 53,165 additional domains in the first 12 days of October. According to domainnamestat, OpusDNS gained more domains than any other German ICANN registrar. Almost 35% of the total net domain growth in Germany came from OpusDNS. And this is just one year after our launch. 😎 As a team, we have worked seven days a week over the past months. With a lot of passion, hard work and sometimes very little sleep. :-) OpusDNS is a project close to all our hearts. ❤️ That is why this success means so much to me. I know how much everyone has put into this, and I am incredibly proud of our team. Thank you to everyone who is part of this journey!
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Christian Koch reacted on thisChristian Koch reacted on thisI’m honored to share that I’ll be taking on the role of CEO of Newfold Digital. When I joined Newfold to lead Bluehost Group, I was excited by the opportunity ahead. Since then, my responsibilities expanded to include Network Solutions Group, giving me the privilege of working with extraordinary teams across our company and around the world. Today, I’m even more convinced of the opportunity in front of us. We are entering one of the most consequential periods our industry has seen. AI is changing how businesses are created, how customers discover them, and how technology gets built and consumed. But as technology becomes more powerful, I believe some fundamentals become more important, not less: trust, digital identity, reliable infrastructure, security and human expertise. Across Newfold, we serve approximately 6 million customers in more than 200 countries. Our opportunity is simple to articulate and ambitious to deliver: make it dramatically easier for entrepreneurs and businesses to establish, operate and grow online. I’m grateful to our Board for its confidence in me, and to Sharon Rowlands for her leadership, partnership and support. I look forward to continuing to work closely with Sharon as Executive Chair. Most importantly, I’m grateful to our teams around the world. I’ve seen firsthand the talent, resilience and commitment to customers that exists across Newfold. There is a lot ahead. And I couldn’t be more excited about what we can accomplish together. Onward! https://lnkd.in/gMDp5mK7Newfold Digital Appoints Sachin Puri Chief Executive Officer; Sharon Rowlands to Become Executive ChairNewfold Digital Appoints Sachin Puri Chief Executive Officer; Sharon Rowlands to Become Executive Chair
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Christian Koch liked thisChristian Koch liked thisRecently, at Milano Unica, I was asked why I had not used a less expensive fabric for a particular garment. It would cost considerably less, I was told. And the customer probably would not notice the difference anyway. Whether she consciously notices it is not the decisive question for me. What matters is how the fabric falls, how it feels against the skin, how it moves, and how it shapes the design. Because a cut does not exist independently of its material. A different fabric can turn the same cut into a different garment. So for me, the question is not whether a customer can explain why a garment feels special. She does not need to be able to name the difference. She should be able to feel it. A cut is only as good as the fabric that carries it. #NOLESS #PresenceThroughDesign #ModernLuxury
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Christian Koch liked thisChristian Koch liked thisA coat that looks as if it came from a current collection. It is around 30 years old. The cut is straight, the shoulder line clean, with no conspicuous details. I came across the photograph online some time ago. The coat is from Jil Sander, Autumn/Winter 1996. Why do some designs barely age? Not because they lack a recognizable signature. On the contrary. You recognize the silhouette, the proportions. Perhaps it is precisely because they carry a clear statement of their own, yet do not design a finished role for the woman who wears them. They leave room for different women to wear and interpret them in their own way, at different times. The clothing does say something about the woman who wears it. Only its own statement never takes her place. You see the design. And you still see the woman wearing it. That could be one reason why some designs, even thirty years later, do not look like the past. #NOLESS #PresenceThroughDesign
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Christian Koch liked thisChristian Koch liked thisA garment is not finished when it leaves the atelier. Its form may already be defined. But how it falls on the body and what effect it creates is still unknown. That only becomes clear when a woman puts it on. For a long time, I was unsure whether one particular design belonged in the first collection. It was a short, sleeveless black jumpsuit made from cashmere. On the hanger, something seemed to be missing, but I could not say what. At the shoot, I saw it being worn for the first time. In that moment, I knew it had to stay. A good garment does not define who a woman should be. It only becomes complete through the woman who wears it. That does not mean it has no effect. Its effect emerges with the wearer, not in her place. A design should not offer a ready-made identity. But it can create the conditions in which a woman becomes visible as herself. #NOLESS #PresenceThroughDesign #ModernLuxury #FashionDesign
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Christian Koch liked thisChristian Koch liked thisThe uncomfortable math of AI transformation: 10% is the model. 90% is work your organization hasn't budgeted for. And that 90% is where almost every AI strategy quietly dies. It almost always starts ambitious at the top: sized opportunities, an approved budget, transformation targets, the competitive-advantage language everyone nods at in the boardroom. Then it has to fall through the reality gap into the actual work. Siloed and poor data. Legacy systems that won't expose what you need. Compliance and risk. Change resistance. And the silent killer: no clear owner. The strategy doesn't fail loudly. It quietly stops being anyone's job. This is the gap nobody budgets for, the distance between ambition and execution. The model was never the constraint. The operating model was. What survives the fall has a spine the boardroom version skips: strategy, then operating model, then workflow redesign, then integration and data, then adoption and enablement, and only then business value. Each step is a handoff where strategy can die, and the two that get cut first are workflow redesign and ownership. Which is exactly why pilots inflate and nothing has moved six weeks later. As far as I can tell, AI success is not a technology challenge. It is an execution problem, and the execution side does not improve on its own. PS: Every week in Human in the Loop, I break down where AI actually creates value and where it just creates demos: https://lnkd.in/dbf74Y9E
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Christian Koch liked thisChristian Koch liked thisA brand that tries to be for everyone ends up recognizable to no one. The wish to please as many people as possible edits a brand down, until little of its own remains. At the beginning of NOLESS, the first question for me was not how many pieces a collection needs, which category is still missing, or what a perfect assortment should look like. What mattered more was what clothing is meant to do. Behind that lies a question that concerns every company. Who are we here for, and what is the thing we make actually meant for? It is sometimes skipped too quickly. People talk about products, prices, processes, target groups, margins, and growth. All of that matters. But it does not yet explain why a brand comes to mean something to people. A brand has to decide who it is there for. Not in the abstract, but for real. It cannot be all things to all people, and it should not keep adjusting its product until it becomes as agreeable as possible. Identity does not come from being compatible with many, but from knowing exactly who it works for and why. Because in the end, a company does not only sell something. It leaves a mark on people. #NOLESS #PresenceThroughDesign #BrandIdentity #BrandStrategy #FashionBusiness
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