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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."
bbq?
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
All our times h4ve
All he does is piss in a rag and wring it out in everyone's asscrack to piss them off. He practically steals domain names. So if I don't use my legal name for 4 years does this shit-faced non-productive fucktard go squat on my legal name just to resell it to me?
People like Kevin Ham are to Americans as the Jews were to Germany; when they get headway in a free market, they start trading only among those in likeness to themselves to deprave actual workers that have born the burden to actualy use the market for its purpose. Just like the non-Jewish Germans, the market will be unfree and the people will begin to spiral into starvation and withdrawals.
Look at California! 30 million criminals from Mexico are about to be made legitimate, even though they are already lied into the country to be Citizens thereof. I have friends that have already pledged to sell their house and all their unneeded property to start a new life in the countryside like Wyoming or Wisconsin. Even Canada is on their minds. The initial cause is always due to the racial profiling being done against them, whether in medical service or the results from a collission from one of those ogrish spicks and trolls.
I have respect for Mexico, they think they own California even though they stole it from the natives and complain when the natives or English returned the squat by taking it from them and pushing their burrito asses back to the sea.
Why does this guy deserve an article? He is merely profiteering off other peoples work while providing absolutely nothing in return.
To romanticise it by saying he "owns the internet" is spitting in the face of innovation.
"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.