Domain Magnate

Similar to Anything.com, Reinvent.com own a top generic portfolio:

Domain Names We have thousands of domain names, each representing virtual real estate that can be developed into premium online businesses. The powerful nature of targeted visitors and premium branding of generic keyword domains can give rise to a perfect storm of rapid brand recognition and visitors to an online presence. Below are a sampling of our virtual real estate portfolio that will be leveraged to branded businesses.

Reinvent was founded in 2000 by Dr. Kevin Ham.

The rapid expansion and unparalleled technologies of Reinvent – and Internet entrepreneur Kevin Ham himself, have not gone unnoticed. In 2007, Kevin was voted “Domainer of the Year” by his industry peers. He was also featured as the cover story in the June 2007 edition of Business 2.0 magazine. This year, Kevin was the recipient of the Industry Achievement Award at the DomainFest 2008 Conference, an annual gathering of the key players in the Internet industry space where Reinvent focus. read more »

A great post from Lord:

This is My True Story

There was a time when I was extremely frustrated with my domaining business. I was seeing people sell domains for hundreds of thousands of dollars and yet I had so many domains which no one was willing to pay even registration fee for, let aside thousands. What was worse was that I was not making much money in parking either.

Whenever I saw the domain-sales charts I would cringe. What was I doing wrong? Was there a fault in my investment strategy? I had to do something about it or simply get out of domaining business. It was a do-or-die situation for me.

There is another thing — I hate failing.

So, I sat-back to take a rational look at my investment strategy and find out what was wrong with it. And very soon I did. read more »