I read this article(I put link on my blog), He owns 300,000 domains which estimate $300 million, $70 million rev per year. He worked with Cameroon Govt to register, redirect traffics to his landing page which has .cm which is typos for .com..8million unique per month. Just amazing.
Thanks for sharing. I'd like to own a good typo domain, too. I registered gogole.co.ve, but it receives only about 7 uniques per day and they absolutely don't click the ads.
I think in the article is says something like 8 million unique visitors per month. And this is meant to be one of the guy's smaller projects
Thats pretty nice sum, I can imagine the corruption in Cameroon , some leader is banking all the big bucks for that one .
yeah, he is working with columbia as well which has .co and several other region. Need lots of politic connections and money.
to register NOPE! He is not registering the domains, he is wild-carding it, i.e. www.digialpoint.cm www.dfgadfg.cm www.searchfordeal.cm... Anything.cm goes to Agoga.com. That is unless somone pays a local 300 dollars a year for one of the names. Then those names are no longer under his control.
He does register domains The Cameroon project is for wildcard domains not the rest of his portfolio "Since 2000 he has quietly cobbled together a portfolio of some 300,000 domains that, combined with several other ventures, generate an estimated $70 million a year in revenue"
true, but the 1st post said worked with the government to register them, to point them to parking, which is not true, he does not register names from .cm... If that was the case then names like www.myspace.cm would be opening him up to major lawsuits. That name was registered by somone else. So was www.google.cm. Yahoo has www.yahoo.cm. Also about Dr. Ham, that number of 70M a year seems low, I think it is more. Check out Jay's blog: http://blog.domaintools.com/tags/reinvent-technology/