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Old 05-22-2007, 08:34 AM   #1
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The $300 Million Domain Name guy
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

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Old 05-22-2007, 08:36 AM   #2
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Awesome, bookmarked. Looks like an interesting read. Thanks!
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Old 05-22-2007, 08:37 AM   #3
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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

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Old 05-22-2007, 08:39 AM   #4
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Interesting article..
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Old 05-22-2007, 08:49 AM   #5
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fuck... what a life
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Old 05-22-2007, 08:50 AM   #6
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wtf...type in a porn domain name and end it with cm lol that guy owns them all!

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Old 05-22-2007, 09:15 AM   #7
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He has built a nice empire there, wish I had the ideas to make something 1/50 of that
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:20 AM   #8
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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
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:31 AM   #9
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thats a damn good read
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:34 AM   #10
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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!

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Old 05-22-2007, 09:40 AM   #11
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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.
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:46 AM   #12
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This calls for the proverbial cliche 'if only i knew then what i know now'
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:51 AM   #13
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Very nice link. Thanks.
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Old 05-22-2007, 09:57 AM   #14
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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
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kudos to that guy
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He bought out the guy that used to own alt right?
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great read, super interesting
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Old 05-22-2007, 10:20 AM   #18
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i was to young to register domains )
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Old 05-22-2007, 10:38 AM   #19
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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.
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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.
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Old 05-22-2007, 11:11 AM   #21
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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.
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Inspirational stuff!
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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!

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I appreciate the advice. I'm kinda new at this internet thing and figuring out what's next.
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Old 05-22-2007, 11:30 AM   #24
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fucking nuts lol. good for him though
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