Kevin Ham

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Dr. Kevin Ham is one of the most successful domainers in the world, owning approximately 320,000 domain names. He owns a multi-million dollar business. From his company's website, Reinvent.com: [1],

Dr. Kevin Ham is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Reinvent Technology, Inc. A medical doctor by profession, he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia. He is also a devout Christian, and actively shares his faith and the message of the bible, albeit in a 'non-preachy' way.

Kevin Ham entered the Internet in 1999, when he founded his first profitable business HostGlobal.com, a webhosting review directory. A year later, Kevin formed Reinvent Technology, Inc. [2] After seven years of exponential growth under Kevin’s leadership, Reinvent has become a global media and technology company. The company’s IP, technology and media arms work together to connect the hearts and souls of people around the world through words and visuals. Kevin is heading up several initiatives to become a dominant presence in the Web 3.0 Semantic Web, the advertising industry and local space, looking to reinvent media and reinvent lives.

A self-taught programmer, designer and businessman, Kevin has become a principal professional force in the domain name fraternity, where he enjoys the reputation as an innovative online media space leader with few equals. Through Reinvent he is leveraging new technology, ideas, human and intellectual capital to transform this direct navigation enterprise into a cutting edge, global media company. The business of Reinvent is centered on the most powerful and intelligent domain portfolio and technology platform in existence today.

In a 2007 cover story in Business 2.0 magazine, Kevin Ham is referred to as “The Man Who Owns the Internet.” The same year, Kevin was proclaimed “Domainer of the Year” by industry association T.R.A.F.F.I.C. While he is held in high esteem by his industry peers, Kevin is the most powerful dotcom mogul of whom most people have never heard. He most recently received the “Industry Achievement Award” at the DomainFest 2008 Conference in recognition of his leadership in the monetization of premium domain names and portfolios.