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The Man Who Owns the Internet

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-a-way-to-make-a-living dept.

Tefen writes "CNN Money posted this story about Kevin Ham, who has made a fortune gobbling up lapsed domain names and has recently launched a lucrative business partnership with Cameroon, the country which controls the .cm TLD. 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."

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  1. IP addresses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Block outgoing TCP packets on port 80 to these IP addresses:
    64.20.33.115
    64.20.33.131
    64.20.49.210
    64.40.116.41
    66.45.231.154
    69.46.226.166
    204.13.160.26
    204.13.160.129
    208.254.26.132
    208.254.26.140
    209.200.153.152
    216.34.131.135
    217.68.70.69
    That should get rid of many pages you get to when you type "typos".