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The arithmetic of desert farming, scored.

Eight cultivation directions for a MENA context, evaluated on technical soundness, feasibility and regional relevance — plus the blindspots no one wrote down, and eight directions no one listed. Prepared for Christian Strunden, July 2026.

8 ideas scored12 blindspots8 additions12 domains verified

01 Ranking  ·  02 The map  ·  03 Blindspots  ·  04 Additions  ·  05 The read  ·  06 Domains

01 — Ranking

Eight directions, ranked.

Technical soundness, feasibility, MENA relevance — each out of ten. Tap any row for the evidence.

02 — The map

Where each idea sits.

Feasibility against regional relevance; dot size is technical soundness. The star is the idea nobody listed.

03 — Blindspots

What the concept note forgot.

Twelve questions a decision maker or investor will ask before the agronomy.

04 — Additions

Eight directions not on the list.

Same thesis — low water, desert-native advantage, high value — extended.

05 — The read

How the portfolio holds together.

Lead with aquaculture and overseas farming. That is where the sovereign money and the precedent already are — a 600,000-tonne Saudi target with 70% subsidies on one side, the Almarai/Fondomonte model on the other.

Anchor the plant story in cactus and halophytes. Proven physiology, proven partners, and an expert network that maps one-to-one onto the advisory bench: Crassulaceae, cactus, ethnopharmacology, fermentation, AI.

Make Salicornia the signature. Seawater irrigation, desert land, an oilseed the world wants — and the research centre that proved it sits in Dubai. The first conversation is easy to get.

Reframe the two weakest as research themes. Pharma botanicals and CAM-under-solar are compelling advisory questions and poor farming offers. Sold as thinking, they strengthen the brand; sold as crops, they fail the first diligence call.

06 — The name on the door

Twelve domains, verified available.

Checked live against the registries on 19–20 July 2026 via RDAP. Availability can change at any moment — the three starred names are worth securing first.

christianstrunden.com
Primary

The canonical personal brand, exact match to the site itself. The address anyone who has met him once will guess first. This is the front door; everything else redirects here.

strunden.ch
Swiss anchor

A five-letter surname in his home registry — rare air. Ideal for email (christian@strunden.ch) and for Swiss and European counterparties, and it quietly signals establishment without saying a word.

whereraindoesnotfall.com
Campaign

The site's own positioning sentence as an address — the one nobody forgets after hearing it once. Long, yes; that is why it works. Redirect to the main site; use it in talks and articles.

04
christianstrunden.ch
Defensive

The .ch mirror of the primary .com, in the registry his Basel counterparties actually type. Cheap insurance against impersonation and confusion.

05
cstrunden.com
Short

Nine characters, easy to dictate across a noisy phone line, clean as an email host (cs@cstrunden.com). The practical workhorse.

06
strundenadvisory.com
Descriptive

Says exactly what he does, in the discreet register he wants. The sensible fallback should the personal name ever be unavailable in a given TLD.

07
strundenmena.com
Regional flag

Name and region in one word. Useful for a MENA-facing landing page, conference materials, or a future Arabic-language surface.

08
desertagronomy.com
Category

Claims the discipline rather than a practice within it. The natural home for the future article platform — the "slow platform for new ideas" from his note.

09
thedesertadvisor.com
Persona

How people will describe him after a single introduction. A memorable spoken name for any future public-facing surface.

10
greentechphytoresearch.com
Corporate

His actual company name — the address institutional counterparties will look for when they check whether he is real. Bridges the legacy identity and the new brand. If a "Greentech family" of domains is ever built, this is its stem — not a generic suffix.

11
greentechfarming.com
Family bench

Available — but only worth registering together with its hyphenated twin, and never as the lead. Two structural caveats: greentech.com itself is permanently taken (the family would be built around a stem it can never own), and "greentech" is the noisiest register in the world — Cleantech, solar, batteries — where a two-person desert-agronomy practice is invisible and sounds like an energy startup. The matching pair greentechfarming.ch / greentech-farming.ch is also free and costs a few francs a year if the set is completed.

12
greentech-farming.com
Twin — pair only

The hyphenated twin of #11. The hyphen rule from the desert-green.com discussion applies in full: hold both spellings or neither — registering only the hyphenated form leaks a share of type-in traffic to the unhyphenated owner forever. As a pair they are acceptable bench insurance (~USD 20/year); as a primary brand they would rank below the trio above on distinctiveness, searchability, and register.

The bill — year 1, year 2

Flat beats cheap.

Registrar prices pulled live on 20 July 2026 (.com: Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap — .ch: Swiss registrars, indicative, incl. VAT). Domains are a year-2 business: the number that matters is the renewal, not the welcome offer.

Registrar · TLD Year 1 Year 2 and after The catch
Cloudflare Registrar · .com $10.44 $10.44 At-cost, zero markup, free WHOIS privacy. Requires Cloudflare nameservers — which this project already uses. Does not carry .ch.
Porkbun · .com ≈$10.99 ≈$10.99 Flat pricing, free WHOIS privacy. The uncomplicated alternative.
Namecheap · .com $11.28 (new-customer promo $6.79, once) $18.48 The classic promo model: friendly entry, +64% at renewal. Verified on their pricing page today.
Swiss registrars · .ch ≈CHF 10–15 ≈CHF 10–15 cyon CHF 14.90 flat; Infomaniak similar, occasional first-year promos. .ch rarely plays the promo game. DNS can still run on Cloudflare even though their registrar does not carry .ch.
Promo-TLD trap · .tech $6.99 $50.98 Verified at Porkbun today: a 7.3× jump. The desert-green.tech caution, quantified.

The trio, sensibly bought. christianstrunden.com + whereraindoesnotfall.com at Cloudflare ($10.44 each) + strunden.ch at a Swiss registrar (≈CHF 13 ≈ $15) → year 1 ≈ $36, year 2 ≈ $36, and every year after. The same basket via the promo route: ≈$34 in year 1, then ≈$52 every year — "cheap" costs ~45% more from year 2 on.

Practical note. Register the trio as a bundle — roughly USD 40/year for all three: the .com as the public face, strunden.ch for credibility and email, the tagline domain as a redirect. Pointing them at the Cloudflare site takes minutes; the account already exists. Also on the bench, verified available today: drylandadvisory.com, desertnativeadvisory.com, watercubeadvisory.com, onekm3water.com, rainlessfarming.com. And a .swiss address (strunden.swiss) is worth checking separately — restricted to Swiss entities, which he is; it could not be verified from here.