Vancouver Domainers
Business 2.0 has an excellent profile of Kevin Ham, one of the most prolific domainers with 300,000 names under management.
The two most interesting points in the article, to me, are:
Vancouver is a honeypot for the domainer industry. I have no idea why exactly. Both Ham and Yun Ye, who sold his firm Name Development to Marchex for $160m, reside in Vancouver. Domain valley?
He struck a deal with the prime minister of Cameroon to do a rev-share on .cm typo traffic. E.g. type in homethinking.cm, mortgage.cm etc. and it redirects to agoga.com with Yahoo ads.
Go read the article.
