The $300 Million Domain Name guy

**Indecent** · 05-22-2007, 07:36 AM

Awesome, bookmarked. Looks like an interesting read. Thanks!

**12clicks** · 05-22-2007, 07:37 AM

Originally posted by mb

Great article about this guy Kevin Ham. I'd never heard of him. Seen his landing pages many times though. Interesting what he's done.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/busin...ion=2007052205

marc

domains, the next bubble to burst.

**chri$tian** · 05-22-2007, 07:39 AM

Interesting article..

**en21** · 05-22-2007, 07:49 AM

fuck... what a life

**Chris Corn** · 05-22-2007, 07:50 AM

wtf...type in a porn domain name and end it with cm lol that guy owns them all!

http://www.katesplayground.cm/

**Nicky** · 05-22-2007, 08:15 AM

He has built a nice empire there, wish I had the ideas to make something 1/50 of that

**maxjohan** · 05-22-2007, 08:20 AM

Here is another great rags to riches article:
http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2007/may.htm

Just in case you need some more good reading

**geedub** · 05-22-2007, 08:31 AM

thats a damn good read

**macromind** · 05-22-2007, 08:34 AM

Go Canucks Go!

To 12clicks, are you serious? Typed-in domain names are never going to die... Thats what he is doing. Do you even know how many dumb ass internet user still think they can type keywords in their address bar? Well, more than you can imagine and this guy is making major money doing it!

Macromind

**RawAlex** · 05-22-2007, 08:40 AM

macromind, type-in domains have already lost some value, because of the way browsers handle typeins. People use to go to the top and just type "porn" and they would automatically end up at porn.com.

Now you do that, and you are likely to get a search page.

http://www.google.com/search?q=porn&...e7&rlz=1I7GGLC

So now typeins require that the surfer type "domain.com" to get to where they are going.

With the addition of search boxes and toolbars on the average browser, the surfer has about 5 different places to search from, so it isn't a given that he will even type into the address bar. More likely, he will type into the google search, the live search, or the yahoo toolbar on their system - or to the computer manufactures search page that comes up default when they load the browser.

They are still getting tons of traffic, but not like they use to.

**RP Fade** · 05-22-2007, 08:46 AM

This calls for the proverbial cliche 'if only i knew then what i know now'

**LiveDose** · 05-22-2007, 08:51 AM

Very nice link. Thanks.

**maxjohan** · 05-22-2007, 08:57 AM

Originally posted by RP Fade

This calls for the proverbial cliche 'if only i knew then what i know now'

What bugs the hell out of me is that these guys didn't even start from scratch, they just bought expired or dropped domains when the bubble bursted in the 2000s

I wish

**tony286** · 05-22-2007, 09:00 AM

kudos to that guy

**pornguy** · 05-22-2007, 09:04 AM

He bought out the guy that used to own alt right?

**Gentle_Ben** · 05-22-2007, 09:07 AM

great read, super interesting

**themonk** · 05-22-2007, 09:20 AM

i was to young to register domains

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**X37375787** · 05-22-2007, 09:38 AM

Talking about being right place at the right time with the right idea. Mad props.

It doesn't surprise me that he comes to realize that all of his domain portfolio has more potential when turned into content-backed portals. PPC reaches its limits sooner or later.

**pornguy** · 05-22-2007, 10:03 AM

And I hate to say this, but the statement he makes at the end, about controlling the internet was not a wise statement to make.

**RP Fade** · 05-22-2007, 10:11 AM

Originally posted by maxjohan

What bugs the hell out of me is that these guys didn't even start from scratch, they just bought expired or dropped domains when the bubble bursted in the 2000s

I wish

heheh..yeah..and I was too busy recovering from the ass-kicking I took in the stock market.

**Hoobie** · 05-22-2007, 10:14 AM

Inspirational stuff!

**12clicks** · 05-22-2007, 10:14 AM

Originally posted by macromind

Go Canucks Go!

To 12clicks, are you serious? Typed-in domain names are never going to die... Thats what he is doing. Do you even know how many dumb ass internet user still think they can type keywords in their address bar? Well, more than you can imagine and this guy is making major money doing it!

Macromind

I appreciate the advice. I'm kinda new at this internet thing and figuring out what's next.

**Sosa** · 05-22-2007, 10:30 AM

fucking nuts lol. good for him though

The $300 Million Domain Name guy

The $300 Million Domain Name guy

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