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.
Dr. Kevin Ham might be “The Man Who Owns the Internet” but he doesn’t own the .com
at what price?
“If you can’t beat them, buy them”.
What happened to Ham’s inhouse (mini site) developers…?
God.com, satan etc. LOL
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!
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.
These domains are crazy!? I wonder how many domains this guy owns in total!
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=)
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.