MUST Read for ALL Domainers!

[jettabosko]

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

 

[Skinny]

Good Read. Long but Good.

I was wondering about the whole .cm thing. . . .Crazy crazy guy but what a smart idea.

Skinny

 

[tetrapak]

I dont find the .cm a smart idea, but the execution is professional indeed.

 

[Spade]

Cliffnotes Anyone?

CNN is blocked from my work....

 

[TheBulldog]

He registers good keyword domains in the .cm extension hoping for typo traffic.

 

[gazzip]

The man who owns the Internet
Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire.

AKA - Vaxis !

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[alanchau]

He doesn't register them. He has an agreement with the .cm operators whereby all wildcard .cm domains point to a parking page.

 

[Spade]

He doesn't register them. He has an agreement with the .cm operators whereby all wildcard .cm domains point to a parking page.

Now that is a sweet gig.

 

[meeks]

He registers good keyword domains in the .cm extension hoping for typo traffic.

Actually he doesn't do that Showbiz,


He has a deal with the Cameroon Government who owns .cm

Any time someone lands on a .cm name that hasn't been regged it is redirected to his page,

As it says there are hardly any .cm names regged so he gets masive traffic from typos to .cm instead of .com

 

[TheBulldog]

Well ok.

So basically, all non-regged names go to his traffic.

In a vague way I would see that as owning them. (But that is me trying to loosely defend myself)

 

[cache]

"Greeting.com is not nearly as good as the plural Greetings.com, but Ham grabs it anyway, for $350,000."

is this true that the plural is better?

 

[tetrapak]

Greetings is being used much more than Greeting, even if you make a search on Greeting in google, you would end up with sites containing greetings in their url.

 

[jeffusa]

Cliffnotes Anyone?

CNN is blocked from my work....

Don't forget about proxies.

Nice article Jetta. Thanks for posting that. :kickass:

Ham has a really good thing going with the .cm thing. In a way, he is leasing all unregistered names from the Cameroon government. Now, remember sometime in the future he could have a fallout with the Cameroon government and the .cm thing could go to someone else.

Now just think about how good the .cm thing is for Ham and then just think about what Microsoft is doing with Internet Explorer on the .com domain. Anytime, someone types in a name that isn't regged it redirects to a Microsoft site if you are using Internet Explorer. Microsoft must be making good change off that.

 

[pedromcreis]

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[RegFee]

I always joke about how nice it would be to have extensions like .cm (didn't know it actually existed until recently) .xom, .vom, .con, etc. however, I don't see how the setup this guy has is any different than if I registered wwwmsn.com

Then yet, MSN's live search gets automatic typo traffic if you type a wrong address into Internet Explorer, so I doubt they are going to be taking anyone to court anytime soon.

 

[maxt0r]

I always joke about how nice it would be to have extensions like .cm (didn't know it actually existed until recently) .xom, .vom, .con, etc. however, I don't see how the setup this guy has is any different than if I registered wwwmsn.com

Then yet, MSN's live search gets automatic typo traffic if you type a wrong address into Internet Explorer, so I doubt they are going to be taking anyone to court anytime soon.

until someone makes a tool "worm" that disables the MSN's live search, and redirect to his site automatic :hehe:

 

[gazzip]

Interesting to see that sex.cm has an OVT of 238 with extension and Porn.cm has OVT 65 with with ext but there's no porn links in site ! Just a generic portal page.

It must be due to his Christian background eh ?

Google.cm is 10084 !!

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