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Those three Canadian dudes got 1 million domains worth $1 billion
Frank Schilling, Kevin Ham and that mysterious $164 million man who is otherwise known as Yun Ye managed to snatch up close to 1,000,000 of the best domains in only a few years... But what do you got?! You got all the shitty names and leftovers! Yep... Those three amazing genius domainers pretty much did a clean sweep right around 2001 - 2004 while everybody else was too busy with god knows what. Some of the others who invested in domains managed to do OK back then but those three in particular went at it like there was no tomorrow. Yun Ye sold his domain collection to publicly traded Marchex for $164 million a few years ago. Cha-Ching !!
Yun Ye's Name Development Ltd. portfolio had over 100,000 generic keyword domains. Going by that valuation... Combine Frank Schilling's and Kevin Ham's domains today, and they are worth somewhere around $800 million. Not bad... Hehe. We should also factor in that internet penetration has grown by at least 50% since early 2005. There are now 1.5 billion internet users... Yup! So, Frank Schilling makes around $20 million per year parking his domains and Kevin Ham does something like $50 million per year parking domains as well. Not bad at all! They were very aggressive with domain acquisitions and I am sure if they coulda went after more domains... They would without hesitation.
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