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Kevin Ham Buys ThreeWords.Me

January 19, 2011 by Michael Berkens

A couple of nights ago we wrote about the domain name threewords.me which was for sale based off its huge visitor and user count.

Tonight comes word via Mashable.com that none other than Kevin Ham has stepped up to buy the site.

Terms we not disclosed bu considering that the in-house auction was suppose to run for 5 days and the site sold in just 2 might indicate a pretty nice price for Mark Bao the 18 year old creator of the less than 30 day old site.

Of course no Kevin Ham story would be complete without a reference to “the man who owns the Internet” story of several years ago and Mashable certainly included it.

As we discussed in our post of a couple of days ago the domain name 3words.me which was registered by someone else just 10 days after threewords.me was registered is still up and looking pretty similar to the latest Kevin Ham purchase.

Filed Under: Domains, Internet News

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Acro says

    January 20, 2011 at 3:06 am

    Dr. Kevin Ham might be “The Man Who Owns the Internet” but he doesn’t own the .com 😀

  2. DOT mail TLD - a business many times bigger than .CO says

    January 20, 2011 at 4:28 am

    at what price?

  3. Aggro says

    January 20, 2011 at 4:34 am

    “If you can’t beat them, buy them”.

    What happened to Ham’s inhouse (mini site) developers…?
    God.com, satan etc. LOL

  4. lols says

    January 20, 2011 at 5:31 am

    agree with aggro lol
    for a bloke (ham) who cannot build a busy or successful site with all that cash and all those developers he can go and buy them i guess lol

    good luck to seller. get ir offloaded for a good price
    so, ham is a .me investor now!

  5. ExReinvent says

    January 24, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    Aggro:
    After frustrating, delaying and cancelling project upon project upon project, he laid all of us off back in September 2009.

    I agree with lols that the sale to Kevin Ham likely means the end of threewords.me.
    He will “try” to launch something on it, set a random deadline that his god told him in a dream or something and when that deadline isn’t met, the project will be canned and threewords.me will be parked.

  6. Accountant says

    August 14, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    These domains are crazy!? I wonder how many domains this guy owns in total!

  7. Troy says

    August 24, 2011 at 3:12 am

    ExReinvent,

    Hilarious! Seven months later and traffic is down almost 98%! You must be a prophet… but if you were a prophet Kevin would probably hire you back, right=)

  8. ExReinvent says

    December 12, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    Hey Troy,

    The name has not been parked so my prediction didn’t come true (yet), but not much has changed on the site since the initial haphazard implementation.

    Threewords.me was and still can be a very promising little idea, but only if someone puts their shoulders under it and makes it happen. A large portion of success is in the execution, and that’s still sorely lacking here.

    Perhaps given the chance, he would hire most of his old team back, but I doubt anyone is interested. What made Reinvent a great place to work were the people: A team of passionate and very intelligent developers and designers who got things done right, despite continuous changes in direction and having professional opinion discarded in favor of “divine” whim.

    I would love to work with a team that intelligent and well put together again, but we have all moved on since. People like to see their work being used.


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