100 people in the world own 2 million domains

[sasquatch]

"...Another 15 companies or individuals own between 10K and 99.99K domains... while 76 more own between 1K and 9.9K names. "Internet domain marketing is largely made up of 100 people who collectively own 2.2 million .com domains..."

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/07/28/domain_payperclick_services_growing_rapidly.html

Your thoughts?

 

[octobus]

typosquatters..

 

[Rascagua]

I wonder if there is someway to contact those people.....or a list somewhere

 

[Theo]

But that means Elequa is #1 with well over 140k domains.

 

[martialtiger]

interesting read. Thanks!

 

[SuperBrandables]

I venture to guess that 99 of the 100 are probably DNF members.

"...Another 15 companies or individuals own between 10K and 99.99K domains... while 76 more own between 1K and 9.9K names. "Internet domain marketing is largely made up of 100 people who collectively own 2.2 million .com domains..."

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/07/28/domain_payperclick_services_growing_rapidly.html

Your thoughts?

 

[Rascagua]

I own only a couple domain names :cheesy: :cheesy:

 

[eq78]

typosquatters..

Doubt Elequa or DCG are typosquatters.

 

[Jonathan]

typosquatters..

You say typosquatting, I say providing lost users with solutions while redirecting for profit.

 

[droplister]

You say typosquatting, I say providing lost users with solutions while redirecting for profit.

, these stats just show how small time the domain industry still is, compared to any other industry.

 

[Edwin]

Hey, I wonder who the other 99 folks are

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

I'm hoping to get another 1 thousands domains this year ... whoooo 10 years to go.

Em

 

[cooljeba]

woah nice info.
offtopic: sasquatch seems to be a BIG FOOT fan . nice avatar.

..:: peace ::..
Jeba

 

[rshldm]

Wow..really surprising.

 

[Rick Latona]

typosquatters..

I don't own typos except the typos of my own domains and I'm one of the 15. Well, all the domain acounts I have accross all companies I'm a partner in would qualify me.

 

[Chaiki]

"...Another 15 companies or individuals own between 10K and 99.99K domains... while 76 more own between 1K and 9.9K names. "Internet domain marketing is largely made up of 100 people who collectively own 2.2 million .com domains..."

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/07/28/domain_payperclick_services_growing_rapidly.html

Your thoughts?

The top Eight in that story would be:

-Marchex (acquisition) formerly Yun Ye - Ultimate Search
-Highland Capital (acquisition) formerly Mike Mann - Buydomains.com
-Fabulous (public Australian exchange) Australia
-Vertical Axis/Proto/DomainDeluxe/Hitfarm group (private) Hong Kong
-Name Administration Inc. (private) Cayman Islands
-Compana LLC/RentalQue (private) Jeff Baron Texas
-Domain Systems (private) Florida, Steve Obrien
-FMA.com (private) Thunyann/Elequa guy (sweet set mixed with conceptual stuff)

Lower quality big guys who grew quickly in the last year or two with expireds and linkpop crap:
-Directnic (private) New Orleans [mainly old linkpop stuff expiring from their registrar]
-QSRCH (new.net group) [aweful typo linkpop crap]
-Netster (some older stuff and then a bunch of tmish stuff)

Biggest mid-size operators who people always think are much bigger, but who have some nice portfolios include:

-Oversee.net yes they own names too
-WorldWideMedia (private) Tampa Florida
-Digimedia-Reflex Publishing (private) Texas-Oklahoma / Florida
-Dotzup (private) Spokane WA
-Modern Limited formerly Real Time Internet(private) Indiana/Carribean
-CNET.com (yes they hold some domain names to drive traffic to their properties)
-National A-1 advertising (free.com)
-Viper Holdings (SFO) Slavik V.
-Rick Schwartz (the one and only)
-Webquest (private) Modesto California
-Modern Empire Internet Ltd. (private) Hong Kong
-Ecorp.
-Strategist Research / Innovation HQ (private) Carribean
-Dot Com Agency - france


You can actually see how smart it was for Marchex to buy Ult Search. You would have to do deals with 4-5 guys from the bottom two levels to equal the quality of 1 deal at the top 8 in terms of traffic volume and quality of name.

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

Summarized properly. Thanks.
Em

 

[Theo]

You say typosquatting, I say providing lost users with solutions while redirecting for profit.

I didn't see that same statement when Verisign implemented their global DNS catcher :-D

 

[mike031]

chaiki got everybody profiled... heh, nice report'

 

[Theo]

I only own 700 domains so I am not in that group :-D