Top Domainers
 

Some domain millionaires
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There are hugely profitable, stock market listed companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars who do little more than investing in domains. Eight and nine figure sums of venture capital pour in on a regular basis. And domains makes profits even for average moms and dads investing the change behind their sofas.

Here's just a handful of people who played clever, got in early, got rich but who are still making millions of dollars every year:

Frank Shilling, one of the world's most powerful and respected  domainers
Monte Cahn, known as the six million dollar man - brokered the first million dollar sale.
 

Rick Schwartz: Self titled domain king that some refer to as the domain pain.

 

Marc Ostrofsky: Founder of iREIT, known for his sale of business.com for $7.5 million.
Gary Alan Kremen: Original registrant of sex.com who was awarded $65 million dollars in lost earnings when the domain was "stolen" from him
 

Kevin Ham: The $300 million "most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of".

 

  There are literally hundreds of other big players from people like Yun Ye -  who sold his portfolio for $164 million and who shuns publicity - to the author of this site (who's comfortably off but isn't in quite the same league at all).

There are also thousands of full time domainers who are so successful they've given up the day job. What should interest even the most skeptical reader is that there are hundreds of thousands of people across the globe making very decent and regular profits from domains. People like you. Parents, college professors, checkout assistants, students, pensioners... A few buy and sell but many hold domains as investments, within a pension plan, as part of an investment portfolio, as a canny way of distributing risk or simply to make a quick buck.

This isn't some multi-level marketing program. This isn't some HYIP (High Yield Investment Program). This isn't some high risk game played on the borders of the financial markets. This is mainstream, baby. So why don't more people know about it? Why hasn't your financial advisor pointed you in this direction? Why hasn't your bank manager told you to spread risk by buying domains? Why don't domain prices appear in the finance section of your local quality newspaper?

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Glossary

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Parking: Used in relation to domains, parking is the temporary foregoing of having a website at a domain and instead placing the domain with a company who shows a temporary page to visitors. This temporary page usually contains ads relevant to the topic of the domain. Parking companies often allow the domain owner to choose relevant keywords for targeted ads. The company and the owner share the revenue.

Pool: A company where you can "catch" domains on the verge of being "de-registered"

Reged: Registered

Reg Fee: Cost of registration. As in your domain is worth only reg fee.

Secondary market: See aftermarket

Tasting: See Domain Tasting

TLD: Top level domain more >>

Traffic domain: Used by domainers for those domains that also get traffic.

Typo: Typographical error

Typosquatter: Similar to the cybersquatter except that the domain is a typographical error, as in googlr.com more >>

WHOIS: A query system to research a domain owner's name and contact details more>>

XXX: Adult. It was proposed as a gTLD but was not approved.

Prime Domain: A term used to refer to domains that may have been valued by third parties as "valuable"