I read this article in Business 2.0 magazine the other day and was amazed not only by how many domain names Kevin Ham owns, but also by his ingenious idea to grab traffic for unregistered domain names. Basically, he struck a deal with the Cameroon government to direct all of the traffic from unregistered .cm domain names to his company's website where he hosts Yahoo ads.
If you're like me, I'm sure you've fat fingered a URL and missed the 'o' in .com. So, for example beer.com becomes beer.cm. Now that this deal has been made, all Ham does is sit back and collect a check and kicks the Cameroon government a few bucks.
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