Via the National Assocation of Manufacturers’ blog. A little incorrect so I edited the text below (added “strike”, underline, keywords, bold).
Why a $200,000 Domain is Worth the Investment
Kevin Ham is making big business out of domain name investments. He recently topped the charts at a live auction in
Las VegasSan Francisco buying Perth.com for $200,000. And again, last spring in Vegas, Ham didn’t blink an eye when shelling out $650,000 in one afternoon for a swath of domains including Christianrock.com. Ham already owns God.com and Satan.com.Ham’s obviously got firm footing in the Web 2.0 domain buying game. He capitalizes on the business community’s lack of online real estate panache by buying great domain names and
selling them back for big profitusing their natural type-in traffic (Direct Navigation) to display Pay-Per-Click advertising links. Today’s companies don’t want a tweaked version of their name and they’re finally realizing that their websites are becoming who they are, the face of the company. So companies turn to Ham’s, and other’s like Ham’s, domain trough and pay top dollar.The reality in this Web 2.0 world is that a business with an emphasis on ecommerce and the right domain name could send
200thousands more people to their site amonthday for their goods and services. The domain price may pay for itself quickly.
Overall great exposure for the domain industry (click link above for original piece and more). Wish they consulted a professional before publishing.
History will show that he passed over intrinsically far more valuable domains at the same auction that he could have secured for a tiny fraction of the price.
History will show that IDN’s never happened. Nobody cares about that crap, so stop clogging up every forum and blog with your pumping. If your names were so great then you would be accumulating and not pumping.
David Wrixon is either a fool, or a dishonest speculator, for if he was honest, he would quietly accumulate and not draw attention to his worhtless IDN’s that nobody on the street has ever heard of. They are even worse than dotmobi. Most dumb IDN owners can’t even agree on what the names mean. What a joke.
kevin over pays
you should sell him spyware
rather then bring 200 people to vegas to watch you stroke each others ego and waste everyone’s time watching the sick, material-based way you petty thieves get your self-esteem