Making Millions For Kevin Ham is all about the “O”…or the lack of it, really. Open up a new browser window right now and type in any word you can think of with a “.cm” at the end…chances are, you’ll find a domain owned by Kevin Ham called agoga.com populated by Yahoo ads. This recent article in BoomJ titled “The Man Who Owns The Internet” gives us a brief but enlightening view into how Kevin Ham, master of Web domains, built a $300 million empire from aggressive domaining. I’ll quote liberally here with no apologies just to wet your appetite. Check out the full article on BoomJ to really find out how a doctor turned domainer and became an internet mogul.

Here are some quotes from the article…

…Trained as a family doctor, he put off medicine after discovering the riches of the Web. 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…

…Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. He was one of the first to take advantage of a loophole that allows people to register a name and return it without cost after a free trial, on occasion grabbing hundreds of thousands of names in one swoop…

…Given Ham’s reach on the Web — his sites receive 30 million unique visitors a month — it’s remarkable that so few people know about him. Even in the clubby world of domainers, he’s a mystery man …

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