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Millionaire Domainers
July 3rd, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
Calling all Millionaires. We are putting together a list of everyone in this industry that has made a million dollars from domain names. The list is long but we need your help to complete the list.
Please submit names of fellow domainers that have made it big in the comments below. We will alter the post and put the millionaires that people suggest directly into the post.
As new people join the list we will try and do a blog post about them. Also, as we get to it we will do a post about everyone already on the list.
Adam Dicker (DNForum)
Ammar Kubba (TrafficZ)
Bill Mushkin (Name.com)
Bob Parsons (GoDaddy)
Bruce Tonkin (Melbourne IT)
Chad Folkening (eCorp)
Chris Ambler (eNom)
Chris Maroney (Original Afternic)
Colin Yu (Reinvent)
Dan Parisi (WhiteHouse.com)
Dan Warner (Fabulous)
Dean Shannon (Fabulous)
Eliot Noss (Tucows)
Eric Harrington (Moniker)
Eric Rice (Bulk Register)
Frank Schilling (Name Administration)
Fred Hsu (Oversee)
George Decarlo (Dotster)
Gregory J. Manriquez (NameDrive)
Howard Neu (Traffic)
Jay Westerdal (DomainTools)
John Kane (eNom)
Jon Whelan (Original Afternic)
Joyce Lin (007 Names)
JP Vazquez (Capitol Domains)
Kevin Ham (Reinvent)
Kevin Medina (RegisterFly.com)
Lawrence Ng (Oversee)
Marc Ostrofsky (Business.com)
Markus Schnermann (Keyword Domains)
Michael Arrington (Pool.com)
Michael Collins (Afternic)
Michael Kovatch (IPhone.com)
Michelle Miller (BuyDomains)
Mike B (Weblog.com)
Mike Mann (BuyDomains)
Monte Cahn (Moniker)
Page Howe (Seniors.com)
Paul Stahura (eNom)
Peter Forman (Register.com)
Pinky Brand (idNames, Network Solutions, Arcemus)
Randy Charach (Synergy Domains Inc.)
Ray King (Snapnames)
Richard Forman (Register.com)
Rick Schwartz (Traffic)
Rob Hall (Pool.com)
Roger Collins (Afternic)
Roland Chemtob (Branded Holding Group)
Ron Wiener (Snapnames)
Russ Goodwin (Naugus Limited)
Sahar Sarid (Recall Media Group)
Sean Muller (eNom)
Taryn Naidu (Pool.com)
Tim Schumacher (Sedo)
Thunayan K. Alghanim (FMA.com)
Vern Jurovich (Proformainc.com)
Will Pemble (Web.com)
Yun Ye (UltSearch)
I know I have forgotten about 300 people so please help us out.
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July 3rd, 2007 at 6:55 pm
You can add me. Mine include BlogTV.com and the entire Blogmedia network. –Austin Chase P.S. Blogcast.com is for sale ;-).
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Dean Shannon (Fabulous)
July 4th, 2007 at 12:50 am
Warren Weitzman
IDC
July 4th, 2007 at 12:53 am
You can add me when I sell billboard.dj, vip.dj, phone.dj etc.
And where can I sell them except on sedo.com and godaddy’s aftermarket?
Thank you,
Hrvoje
July 4th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Thunayan K. Alghanim (FMA.com)
July 4th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Jay Westerdal in the list
July 4th, 2007 at 5:46 am
here should b[be] the subcategory of 10millionaire ,
i.e.
the person who has x0,000,000 USD ,
may b[be] My Dear Sir Frank Schilling
able2b[able-to-be] qualified ,;–^),
ThANKye
2w
July 4th, 2007 at 6:37 am
This is a really bad idea. Consider that your favorite domainer hero may not want you splashing his name around on a public list of millionaires.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:42 am
“This is a really bad idea. Consider that your favorite domainer hero may not want you splashing his name around on a public list of millionaires.”
I agree.
UPDATE BY JAY: I have pulled a few people off the list that want to be more private. A net worth of one Million is easy to achieve if you have been in this industry for a long time. I don’t buy into the paranoia that people will be targets if they are on the list. That is crazy talk. There are millions of millionaires. And when you look at the big picture, a million dollars only buys you half of an apartment in San Fransisco.
July 4th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Pinky Brand (idNames, Network Solutions, Arcemus)
July 4th, 2007 at 10:10 am
¿Chris Chena from Chena Ventures?
July 4th, 2007 at 11:31 am
“I don’t buy into the paranoia that people will be targets if they are on the list.”
I didn’t used to buy into that kind of paranoia until I was sued because plantiff found an online photo of me standing next to a Ferarri. Predatory lawsuits and other threats to people with money are real. (ie. Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
July 4th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
“This is a really bad idea. Consider that your favorite domainer hero may not want you splashing his name around on a public list of millionaires.”
The industry is now out of the closet, warts and all. Names shouldn’t pulled, it is like Britney asking for her pics not to be published in the paper. If it is public knowledge then publish it.
July 4th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
My boss, partner and friend for the last 35 years and currently Owner and Chairman of the company that bares my name, Tedhens Limted, http://www.Tedhens.com, “Dr. Christopher W. Hartnett,” should fit into your special group. Dr. Hartnett is the retired Chairman and Founder of USA Global Link and GlobalOnline.com and domainer since 1992 with over 18,000 premium domains and over 4500 domains starting with the word “Global”. Based on the last Traffic Auction in New York where GlobalFunds.com sold for $20,000, that should put Dr. Hartnett’s “Global Portfolio of 4500 names” alone worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $90 million.
Very best to you, Ted108.
UPDATE BY JAY: I removed personal contact details. Please don’t post those.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:25 am
This list is exciting for me. Congratulations to all those who have reached this milestone! I am a successful domainer and entrepreneur, though I am quite far off from earning even a fraction of a million dollars.
EDIT BY JAY: Please no solicitations.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Crap. Now my wife knows.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Harald Hochmann (DAY.biz, Adomino.com)
July 7th, 2007 at 4:08 am
Chris Chena from Chena Ventures (animation.com, viajes.com, and others). I think he´s also the most active hispanic on this industry, buying, developing and selling premiums. Also one of the youngest domainers. With the last sales of some of his premium spanish domains to Marchex and other companies, he made even more millions. Why he is not on this list?
July 9th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I’m not there yet (not by a long shot), but I hope there’s eventually room for a 56-year-old grandma ;=)
jss
July 30th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Yakov Yukhananov
Make Things Happen, LLC
MakeMoney.com / Workathome.com …
August 19th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Cuban ? Ari G? Every WIPO UDRP crook that is on the take? Its still making money off domains, even if ya are stealing generics from people via UDRP, which has happened occasionally.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
January 26th, 2009 at 2:24 am
kevin medina????
please forgive my alias; it was made for monitoring my domains that were held hostage by the aforementioned name. Glad my wife wont see my name here. It is nice to see a list of the ‘big players”. maybe the list could be called something else like a ‘who’s who’ but in fine print qualifications would be 1 mil in domain equity or salary of 100k plus. bad thing here, 1 mil isnt what it used to be, even less now that obama is in town.