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The hidden world of domainers

The hidden world of domainers

John Chow examines the hidden world of Domainers, those that make their living through owning loads of domains and the income that they bring in:

Yun Ye is a ‘€œdomainer.’€? He is, in fact, the world’€™s most successful domainer, a pioneer in a highly lucrative industry based on buying, selling and developing domain names. Ye holds over 100,000 domain names that was making him more than $20 million a year in revenues – $19 million in profits. Ye sold his domain empire in November 2004 to publicly traded Seattle-based Marchex for, get this, $164 million. Since then, Ye has never been heard from again.

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