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The Man Who Owns the Internet
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."
Not anymore different than Al Gore "inventing" the Internet. I wouldn't be surprised if Al filed a lawsuit to protect his invention. :P
Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap.
Since spam introduces meaningless noise in email, isn't what this guy is doing introducing meaningless noise in the DNS system? Maybe an RFC is needed to further and more specifically define such worthless noise and abuse in the DNS system.
Ham is a devout Christian, and he spends $31,000 to add Christianrock.com to his collection, which already includes God.com and Satan.com.
Why is that not surprising...
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
"I've often thought that a person or corporation should only be allowed to own 1 domain. If a person/company really wants more domains then they can create additional child corporations."
That's just daft. I have a domain for cars (mbz.org) and one for tropical fish (aquaria.net).
I have to make two incorporations to be able to have these? How bout not?
Need Mercedes parts ?
"Well, the schools sure are educating our kids. They're picking up all sorts of useful skills and ideas, and should be proud of their accomplishments."
Seriously, there should be a minimum IQ requirement for the distribution of mod-points.