Domain Names

Submitted by Brent Hardinge on Thu, 2007-05-24 06:06.

Kevin Ham.03When I feel that my 6 or so domain names are expensive to renew or that my employers 300+ names are hard to manage, imagine what it must be like for Kevin Ham. Ham is the owner of many domain names, some, like 'greeting.com' that he paid a mere $350,000 for. That's right. That is no typo. He started buying domain names while he was in medical school and soon abandoned that to become a domain name tycoon. With over 300,000 domains, he seems to be succeeding. Most of these names are only placeholder pages for ads served up that are mildly relevant to the URL.

Business 2.0 has a great peek into the world of the domain name business in there article “The man who owns the Internet”. It turns out that his domain business is a small part of his income. He newest venture is something that many have not doubt seen when you miss typed a domain name and ended up with '.cm' at the end instead of '.com'.

Read the full article to find out more.

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