Kevin Ham, the $300 Million Domainer

Today I was surfing the web until I hit a story on CNN about a man named Kevin Ham who had over $300 million dollars worth of domains in his portfilo. To say the least, I thought that his story was very inspiring although the story may have been dated a few years back.

Now anyone could say that he was lucky to have lived in the new age of the so called Internet, but in any scenario of new great change like the Internet, comes risk. And he took the risk of investing money into hundreds of thousands of valuable domain names, and now look at how much his domain portfolio is worth: $300 million dollars.

Knowing that he holds probably the largest domain portfolio in the world, whenever he likes a domain, chances are he will buy your domain name off your hands for crazy prices people would say. CNN reported that one of the domain names he liked, he bought for $31,000 and the domain name was Christianrock.com.

He is probably the most pleasing buyer for buying out domains he likes. He also owns many great domain names like God.com, Satan.com, and etc.

In the beginning stages of the Internet where the search engines were just developing, he developed many methods of ways to monetize his domain names that other webmasters never thought of. He registered many of the misspelled domains, as well as domains that sounded cool, and displaced ads on them. He reported that at the time, he generated over $40,000/month of revenue by this. However, because more and more search engines are catching up (he owns domains like NewYorkTimes.cm & etc) he believes that misspelled domain names are going to run out of businesses. Now, he tries to operate and maintain a larger portfolio of his web properties for the purpose of benefiting the general public and earns money from that.

Now what attracted me to this story was that he went from wanting to become a doctor to becoming a dot-com mogul that basically holds probably some huge percentage of the world’s most valuable domain names. Also because that he doesn’t seek out attention or publicity for his great online achievements. Despite his achievements, I thought that his story of wanting to become a doctor into becoming a dot-com mogul was inspiring and I hope you did too.

You can the full report of his story below:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/

http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2008/may.htm

You can practically say that he owns the majority of the Internet.