Top 10 Domainers in the World?

[mirrorcube]

Most people know Frank Schilling and Rick Schwartz, but who else would you put in the top 10. Ive seen John Berryhill in the whois for some nice names also. But like to get a complete top 10 list by your guys and gals consensus.

 

[GiddyUp]

wow so he is the one behind the deal for .cm with Cameroon - that must be a ridiculous amount of traffic. clever, but deceiving.

 

[gazzip]

i'm just saying I'd like to see some inspiring stories of people who aren't living in windfalls from visions of '95, but are trying to come up with new and innovative visions for the industry/community here and now.

Here's a good one

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-hacker-dropout-ceo.html


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[Premium]

YOU would be a TOP domainer if YOU were registering names right now rather than posting this thread

 

[gazzip]

YOU would be a TOP domainer if YOU were registering names right now rather than posting this thread

:lol: I think I have enough as it is !


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[spaceguru]

I dont get the bob parsons joke. please inform. :tri:

 

[namelogic]

if you guys think Rich Schwartz is one of top 10 domainers
than you guys missed about 10 other companies that are much bigger than he is.

 

[onewordonly]

if you guys think Rich Schwartz is one of top 10 domainers
than you guys missed about 10 other companies that are much bigger than he is.

His story is still quite inspiring, I just wish I decided to buy domains back in 96 when I first got online instead of trying to be a web designer i did have a few but most never got renewed due to not been aware of what was to come & the high fees by the only register I knew of back then "network solutions".

 

[Finer - Tommy]

I am new to the domaining business but I would have to say the owner of domainsource.com. he has some fantastic domains and makes a nice dollar every month.. Around 50K a month.

 

[Pred]

Digimedia
Namemedia
BuyDomains
Ireit

They own pretty much everything

 

[NeeJam]

Member here "XF.com" he owns a couple good domains including XF.com and March.com he could be in contention around the #10

Kevin Ham has to be around the top-spot though - vancover.com, god.com, satan.com, owning the .cm extension and about 300k other names.

 

[onewordonly]

Kevin Ham has to be around the top-spot though - vancover.com, god.com, satan.com, owning the .cm extension and about 300k other names.

He seems to be one of the biggest buyers from reading the article on him. It seems a bit strange that it is allowed for one individual to own a whole country tld, I would hate to think this could happen to all the others too which would mean only a few hundred people would own all the domains in the world one day.

 

[-REECE-]

I would think Domain Finance Inc. would be up there (oil.com, gas.com, students.com + many lesser gems).

 

[mkylut]

I would think Domain Finance Inc. would be up there (oil.com, gas.com, students.com + many lesser gems).

Who are they? they own very very excellant domains. dubai.com, oslo.com, helsinki,com, kazakhstan.com.....etc...etc...

They're based in Malaysia?

Someone know about them?

thanks in advance

 

[gazzip]

Who are they? they own very very excellant domains. dubai.com, oslo.com, helsinki,com, kazakhstan.com.....etc...etc...

They're based in Malaysia?

Someone know about them?

thanks in advance

yeah, they have some absolute diamonds Cities.com - refineries.com - SolarPower.com - Cartoons.com - Worldnews.com - Steel.com - Brussels.com - MilanCity.com - StMoritz.com - AbuDhabi.com - Feed.com and as mentioned Dubai.com

Loads of their domains are listed here http://www.wn.com/s/sitemap/index.html

WN World News Network sites

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[Michael]

Frank Schilling is #1 in my book. Came late to the game and still dominated, and didn't start with a huge bankroll.

 

[gazzip]

As well as Sahar Sarid's story is as much as inspiring.

Yeah, its a great story - I see on his blog that he's putting Spyware.com up for sale soon - WOW, what a HUGE name to own


http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/13/spywarecom-is-coming-on-the-auction-block/

He must have an amazing collection of names considering he also started out around 2000 with nothing but a credit card !


...If he has names like that, he must be well worthy of being somewhere in the top 10 too


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[petrosc]

still its a good sale. congrats!

how do you know without knowing the domain name?

 

[Kate]

It was easier to pick good domains in 2000 for sure. Saying that, I'm sure that in 2013 people will say there were plenty of opportunities left in 2007 :hehe:

 

[-REECE-]

There were plenty of opportunities in 2007 :hehe:

Thanks for the WN.com link and info guys, I was curious myself what other names Domain Finance Inc owned... Must be 100mm+ worth of names there :lala:

It was easier to pick good domains in 2000 for sure. Saying that, I'm sure that in 2013 people will say there were plenty of opportunities left in 2007 :hehe:

 

[Kenny]

It was easier to pick good domains in 2000 for sure. Saying that, I'm sure that in 2013 people will say there were plenty of opportunities left in 2007 :hehe:

And here we are 10 years later.
This was a fun thread back in '07
Who makes this list now?
Some of the posters in this thread could be on that list.

Kate, you were absolutely right about 2013 vs '07, and now 2017, were there more opportunities in 2013 than now?

I'm not so sure.
With all the emerging technology, specific niches, future holds, the Chinese market swallowing up what were considered bad letters, fortune passes everywhere.

One problem with this question is how many big shooters keep a low profile, but even the high profile will still be hard to pick.

Another problem is the fact that Registers have become domainers.
There was a post earlier in this thread where they picked Bob Parsons.
That got a good laugh at the time.
Not so funny anymore,

So who are the Top 10 players in the industry in 2017?

Peace,
Cy