Yun Ye Confidential

[sasquatch]

+ Yun Ye was born in June 1972.

+ In 1995, he received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from Brandeis University, a very good private school in Waltham, Mass. He graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

+ In 1998, he earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Maryland in College Park. That certainly helps explain why he was so good at writing computer programs to snag freshly expired domain names.

+ Not long after he finished graduate school, Ye and Jin Lu, his wife, started a domain-name business called noname.com. They lived in a condo in Fremont, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lu has played a major role in Ye’s business ventures; interestingly, she once did an interview with the Denver Business Journal — in May 2001 — for a feel-good story about how noname.com donated childabuse.org to a Colorado nonprofit. A month later, Ye and Lu sold their Fremont condo, by which time they’d formed Ultimate Search, which listed a Hong Kong address and was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.

+ In recent years, Ye and his family lived for at least some of the time at One Wall Centre, a skyscraper in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, shown here .

+ His specific whereabouts these days are unknown.

 

[Seraphim]

His specific whereabouts these days are unknown.

Why does he continue to propagate this "mystery persona", is he at odds with the Chinese government? Perhaps James Bond is looking for him. Last I checked he was just a domainer. :lol:

 

[sasquatch]

Why does he continue to propagate this "mystery persona", is he at odds with the Chinese government? Perhaps James Bond is looking for him. Last I checked he was just a domainer. :lol:

Handsome fella ain' he?

 

[Seraphim]

Handsome fella ain he?

You camped outside his house again Sasquatch?

 

[StockDoctor]

They lived in a condo in Fremont, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay Area. A month later, Ye and Lu sold their Fremont condo, by which time they’d formed Ultimate Search, which listed a Hong Kong address and was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. In recent years, Ye and his family lived for at least some of the time at One Wall Centre, a skyscraper in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia,

any info on when he went to Squatter university, or why the hong kong address or bvi incorporation was necessary? on a related note, have the stock shortsellers found out about the marchex / ult search tm problems yet?

 

[hugegrowth]

Yun Ye is a mystery wrapped inside an enigma.

Apparently he kept some of his domains locked away in a Swiss Bank. :whistle:

In recent years, Ye and his family lived for at least some of the time at One Wall Centre, a skyscraper in downtown Vancouver.

Doesn't Kevin Ham live there?

 

[Poker]

on a related note, have the stock shortsellers found out about the marchex / ult search tm problems yet?

By the looks of the stock they may have already. The stock is trading at multi year lows after having found some support @ 8.50 (the low of June 2004).

If you bought the stock when it went public in April 04 (and have not sold any) you have not only managed to not make any $, you have lost $ over the last 3 years as well as the opportunity to invest your principle elsewhere.

This is a major reason not to listen to company leadership when they constantly flap their lips about how great the company is doing and will do

 

[Seraphim]

According to the independent research I've done, almost everyone one of these "big league domain players", has more skeletons in their closet then a cemetery. Ignore the fact that the dnjournal.com lays out the red carpet for these people, and head over to webhosting.info and run a free reverse IP check on their portfolios. A lot of these guys are sitting on blatant TM domains, and more than a dozen. I laugh my ass off every time one these shady characters gives a motivational speech addressed "to the industry", entailing how they "made it happen". If you are ever going to go anywhere in the industry, ignore what Yun Ye, Marchex, and Frank Schilling are saying. Use your own intuition and judgement. These guys are nothing more the cardboard mascots, and they certainly aren't sharing with you the actual story about "how they made it happen". I'm contented to know most people here see through this relentless public relations bullshit.

 

[StockDoctor]

I laugh my ass off every time one these shady characters gives a motivational speech addressed "to the industry", entailing how they "made it happen". If you are ever going to go anywhere in the industry, ignore what Yun Ye, Marchex, and Frank Schilling are saying. Use your own intuition and judgement. These guys are nothing more the cardboard mascots, and they certainly aren't sharing with you the actual story about "how they made it happen". I'm contented to know most people here see through this relentless public relations bullshit.

I might be wrong but I think you maybe meant to put Kevin Ham's name in there in place of Frank Schilling. I agree with you on the others, but I haven't seen any blatant names carried by Frank. That guy actually was Mr. Clean compared to the Ye-s, Ham-s, etc.

 

[Seraphim]

I might be wrong but I think you maybe meant to put Kevin Ham's name in there in place of Farnk Schilling. I agree with you on the others, but I haven't seen any blatant names carried by Frank. That guy actually was Mr. Clean compared to the Ye-s, Ham-s, etc.

Do your research.

 

[StockDoctor]

Do your research.

Hey, do I have to, I could be wrong? I'm tired and haven't even had my nap yet today. Help me out here. Have you really seen examples of blatant TM squatting by Frank? Just show me a few will ya? Like everyone else here, I research thousands of names every stinkin day and always run into nameadministration. I just can't remember seeing such a case from him.

 

[Seraphim]

Hey, do I have to, I could be wrong? I'm tired and haven't even had my nap yet today. Help me out here. Have you really seen examples of blatant TM squatting by Frank? Just show me a few will ya? Like everyone else here, I research thousands of names every stinkin day and always run into nameadministration. I just can't remember seeing such a case from him.

I'm not going to lay anything out against Frank here, his lawyers could easily take my lunch money. His portfolio may look different now, but I recall seeing a long list of forum and blog chatter to the contrary, and it seemed to back what I saw first hand.

 

[Fearless]

Hey, do I have to, I could be wrong? I'm tired and haven't even had my nap yet today. Help me out here. Have you really seen examples of blatant TM squatting by Frank? Just show me a few will ya? Like everyone else here, I research thousands of names every stinkin day and always run into nameadministration. I just can't remember seeing such a case from him.

When someone tastes 100's of thousands of domain names they quickly find out the TM typos pay the most. Hard to throw back the big money making whoppers.

Article by Frank: http://www.circleid.com/posts/historical_analysis_domain_tasting/

 

[StockDoctor]

When someone tastes 100's of thousands of domain names they quickly find out the TM typos pay the most. Hard to throw back the big money making whoppers.

Takes a much smaller number to find that out. It's just harder for some to throw back the TM stuff than others. You should know Greg.

 

[Fearless]

You should know Greg.

Yeah at least I don't have Guido Yukhananov beating down my door over $10K.

 

[StockDoctor]

Yeah at least I don't have Guido Yukhananov beating down my door over $10K.

Yeah, you can thank your TMs. If you're going to bring that other issue up again without having a clue what it was about, you're gonna look pretty silly. That thread was closed for a reason.

 

[Fearless]

Yeah, you can thank your TMs. If you're going to bring that other issue up again without having a clue what it was about, you're gonna look pretty silly. That thread was closed for a reason.

I read it on the Internet. It must be true.

 

[Poker]

Is this an old rivalry guys?

 

[Devil Dog]

Is this an old rivalry guys?

Looks pretty new to me.

 

[sasquatch]

According to the independent research I've done, almost everyone one of these "big league domain players", has more skeletons in their closet then a cemetery. Ignore the fact that the dnjournal.com lays out the red carpet for these people, and head over to webhosting.info and run a free reverse IP check on their portfolios. A lot of these guys are sitting on blatant TM domains, and more than a dozen. I laugh my ass off every time one these shady characters gives a motivational speech addressed "to the industry", entailing how they "made it happen". If you are ever going to go anywhere in the industry, ignore what Yun Ye, Marchex, and Frank Schilling are saying. Use your own intuition and judgement. These guys are nothing more the cardboard mascots, and they certainly aren't sharing with you the actual story about "how they made it happen". I'm contented to know most people here see through this relentless public relations bullshit.

Finally, a rare someone who really sees things for what they are.

And poor Duke, every once in a while these guys throw him a bone with their meaningless "Outstanding Industry Coverage" award, and he laps it up like a good puppy dog. Of course, he's very well in on a joke, but it's the majority of domainer "audience" that don't get it.