Article on CNN today (Domaining) - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**rmacdon** · 05-22-2007, 07:08 AM

This article is pretty good have a read.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/busin...ex.htm?cnn=yes

**Gramma** · 05-22-2007, 07:59 AM

THanks for the heads up!
very interesting....

Banned: VioxxLawyers · 05-22-2007, 08:26 AM

Nice article. Thanks.

**DomainLobe** · 05-22-2007, 08:34 AM

Thanks for sharing!

**Rockefeller** · 05-22-2007, 08:34 AM

Great read! Thanks!

**simon** · 05-22-2007, 08:45 AM

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urn it without cost after a free trial, on occasion grabbing hundreds of thousands of names in one swoop.

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He was one of the first to take advantage of a loophole that allows people to register a name and ret

And what few people know is that he's also the man behind the domain world's latest scheme: profiting from traffic generated by the millions of people who mistakenly type ".cm" instead of ".com" at the end of a domain name.

thats another way of typo squatting. At least this guy accepts it publicly

**Makis77** · 05-22-2007, 09:02 AM

ever tried to register on cameroon tld???

just try and see the reg fee

**Doc Com** · 05-22-2007, 10:02 AM

Damn fine article. MUST READ for newbies and all the "know it all's".

**AlienGG** · 05-22-2007, 10:19 AM

So Kevin runs HitFarm.
How many of you are going to move to Vancouver? If not mistaken, I think Yun Ye was from there too.

**bdss** · 05-22-2007, 10:32 AM

great article..thanks for sharing

**tonyfloyd** · 05-22-2007, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by AlienGG

So Kevin runs HitFarm.
How many of you are going to move to Vancouver? If not mistaken, I think Yun Ye was from there too.

Yeah....Vancouver seems like the place to be......wanna make it big??....Move to Vancouver!!...lol...

**groundctrl** · 05-22-2007, 11:35 AM

frank schilling is from British Columbia as well, i think.

cursal · 05-22-2007, 12:32 PM

Favorite line

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"If you control all the domains," he says, "then you control the Internet."

Great read, thanks for sharing.

**elivate** · 05-22-2007, 12:37 PM

Every time I read articles like this I feel like giving myself a good swift kick in the A$$... I could have been one of those guys!!! *sigh*

**Rockefeller** · 05-22-2007, 12:37 PM

Vancouver and Australia seem to be where the best domainers live.

**companyone** · 05-22-2007, 02:38 PM

I think Frank S. is in the Cayman Islands.

Peace,
dan

**whitebark** · 05-22-2007, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by AlienGG

So Kevin runs HitFarm.
How many of you are going to move to Vancouver? If not mistaken, I think Yun Ye was from there too.

No need to move - already there!

**hugegrowth** · 05-22-2007, 04:38 PM

I used to live there! Does that count? All that domaining was going on right in my own backyard...

**JuniperPark** · 05-22-2007, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by hugegrowth

I used to live there! Does that count? All that domaining was going on right in my own backyard...

Don't feel bad -- I used to have a 'real job' in Carlsbad Ca, occasionally buying domains on my break at work, and I kept noticing a red ferarri with a tag something about "WS".

After working there several years, the day I moved on I learned that the .WS headquarters was LESS THAN 1/2 BLOCK AWAY the whole time, in an office/industrial complex I simply had never gone into.

Luckily I never bought any .ws domains, but it still was an odd geographical coincidence.

**gmac17** · 05-23-2007, 10:57 AM

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Every time I read articles like this I feel like giving myself a good swift kick in the A$$... I could have been one of those guys!!! *sigh*

there are a lot of us in that boat. What really kills me is that I knew about domains early on - bought 50+ one night in 1997 and started from there - but.... didn't buy the right ones. Then even in 2003 when I first reg'd here I was kicking myself about 1997 instead of buying great drops...

(50 people reading this post nodding their head in agreement...5 or 6 reading this post counting piles of cash on their countertops...)