Day #16 eBay auction doing good.

I recieved a couple of private messages that I answered regarding my incentive website and they seem pretty interested. It is at $25.00 with a little under 8 days left still doing pretty well considering most of the bids always come on the last three days. Hopefully the number of watchers will pick up towards the end. If you would like to follow the auction you can view it on eBay here. That is all that has happened today I'm going to buy an IPB forum tomorrow and talk with the guy that is making the skin so I can move foward with starting my HipHop forum.

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Day #15 Domain sale and eBay update.

I sold my first domain name since starting this Blog. Not really a big sale but a good start considering I only paid $30 for the package of names. I sold WiiGames.info for $27.50 last night. I also decided to start making a Nintendo Wii forum with all of the Wii domains that I have. I think that is better then just leaving them parked and can hopefully get it pretty large before the Wii is released. Wish me luck with these sites and hopefully I can further development and get more ideas today.

Day #14 Starting a HUGE Hip-Hop Community

After reading comments from some of the readers I have decided to start a Hip-Hop community. This is going to be a huge project and probally cost me about $500. I need to get a custom skin, vB license, moderators and advertisers to build it really fast. Hopefully this will turn out to be a great sale down the road and get me good monthly income off of advertisements. For now I just have the domain names. I bought e-hiphop.net and ehiphop.net. The name had been archived since 2000 so hopefully it still has some type-in traffic comming but that does not matter to much. I thought it was a great name and describes "online hiphop" great.

Day #13 Selling some names on eBay

I decided to list the eight .be domain names for sale on eBay. I won them for almost nothing in an auction on NamePros and figure mine as well try and get a few dollars. I expect it to get around $20.00 they are pretty brandable names that a company would love to have. View the auction here and would appreciate any bids just to get it going. Thanks for reading today I am just going to play Poker some more and not really do anything buying wise. Might even start developing some of my names into forums if Poker gets boring.

Day #11 Bought more domain names.

I bought only two domains today but I feel these are my best yet potential wise. I also put my Wii domains up just to see what offers people are considering already good interest and they have been up for less then a day. The domains that are bought are below:

R-Kelly.us

Searches done in April 2006
Count	Search Term
568705	r kelly

.com X

.net X

.org X

.us X

.info X

.name

.biz X

.tv

.ws

.cc

.bz

.de X

.co.uk X

YoungDro.Info

Searches done in April 2006
Count	Search Term
32721	young dro

He just released his music video for "Shoulder Lean" and in my opinion he is going to be the next big artist this summer when he releases his album. That was a ton of results for someone thats song had not even been on television until two days ago when he premiered it. If you want to hear the song or learn more about him click here.

Day #10 Sale is complete.

The buyer paid for the website yesterday and I transfered everything to him so the sale is pretty much complete unless he comes across a major problem but highly doubt that. I came across a great song yesterday on MTV Jams and I learned that it was just released as a video yesterday. I checked and this artist has a pretty high overture for somebody that has just hit the scene. To top things off he is signed with T.I.'s label (or at least he was in the video) and good extensions are still avaliable. I will probally buy these and let you know more information later. Hopefully I can find a few names on eBay today as well.




I play poker at Poker.com

Day #9 First website sale.

I had not had time to post here that I had put my auction up for sale and before I could it was SOLD at "Buy it Now." This is great news it was a pretty good sale in my eyes $150 for a site that I am sure can make great money with more development and traffic. I wish the buyer best of luck with further development and hopefully I can start creating more php forums like this. I have six great Nintendo Wii domains that I can redirect to and start a forum out of . Well maybe that is my next idea for development will have to start looking at what free skins are out there.

Day #8 Update

Turns out to be a bummer and I lost the auctions but not feeling bad about it. The first auction was at $144 for 255 domains and the other one was at $305 for 355 domains with about 5-10 minutes remaining. Then the high rollers came in and the bidding went up to $1,000 then $2,000 and ended at around $2,500 for each of them I was shocked. There were some really valuable names in the bunch but I didn't expect it to go even close to that high. Well hopefully next time I can win one of these at a steal of a price and then park them and wait for offers while selling the others individually.

Day #8 Hoping to win some of these auctions!

I found some great auctions on eBay that are ending in a couple of hours. They have many top quality domains and are selling in bulk so there is anywhere from 80-500 depending on which auction I win. Out of the ten names I checked eight of them had more then one extension taken and some even have an overture in the hundreds. That means mega traffic and huge resale! Well I will let you know if I end up winning them or not and I am going to start playing on PokerStars for real money this week. Wish me luck.

Day #7 Advertising and Domains

I need a couple of high traffic and high PageRank sites to link to this blog so we can get some traffic and repeat visitors comming in. By doing this hopefully I can get some good donations and then will be able to buy some high risk/profit domains; meaning buy for $100 and resell for $250. I will be registering some more domains soon and putting the ones I own now up for offers but will probally hold onto them since they will only be worth good value when their albums are released and popularity peaks.

If I advertise where will my link go?

In the right hand corner under "Affiliates".

What is so special about donating other then helping you?

If you donate you will get your site or real name listed on the donators section and will also get a description of your product/website listed in the next post (will be brief unless big donation).

How will we be ranked in Affiliates spot?

Based on your websites Page Rank and traffic that it is recieving. The bigger you are the better spot you get and the more traffic you will bring this blog.

Day #6 Update on domains.

Yesterday at night I finally recieved six Wii domains I won in an auction on NamePros. I thought long term this was a GREAT deal they are very nice keywords and already almost all extensions have been snapped up. I got them parked at Sedo and hope that I will get a few offers threw them. I'm going to start playing Poker soon again on PokerStars and will hopefully make some good money from that. I have a set strategy to do only Sit&Go's, Limit Tables and Tournaments from my recent play I have noticed that I lose to much at the tables with bad all-in calls. I also put nice descriptions on the names into Sedo so people will be able to see the potential that they have and be more interested. Well I'm thinking of registering some more .info's tonight but well see how that goes. See the "Domain Portfolio" for the domains that I won.

Day #4 Bought more domains!

I spent more time looking at the music industry domains and pretty much searched for every hot artist out there. I found that the .us is always avaliable and I'm still considering registering all of these domains in that extension due to the good resale value once all of them are taken. Well here are the names that I bought hopefully they will bring in some traffic and clicks on SEDO. So far I have not recieved any bids on the network but alot of interest so hopefully the first bid will come in soon.

Registered Letoya.info on May 15, 2006.
Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 806,000 for "letoya"
Yahoo: Results 1 - 10 of about 672,000 for "letoya"
Overture: 66688 letoya, 61882 letoya luckett

Registered FieldMob.info on May 15, 2006.
Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 630,000 for "field mob"
Yahoo: Results 1 - 10 of about 362,000 for "field mob"
Overture: 155427 field mob

LeToya Nicole Luckett (Born on in March 11, 1981 in Houston, Texas) is an American R&B singer. She is a Grammy Award winner and original member of multiplatinum R&B group, Destiny's Child. As a solo artist, Luckett uses her first name only. Her self titled debut album "Letoya" is scheduled for release on July 18.

Field Mob is a hip hop group from Albany, Georgia. They have recently signed with Ludacris and his Disturbing Tha Peace record label. Their new single, "So What", is produced by Jazze Pha and guest stars R&B singer, Ciara.

Day #3 Finishing Up The List

I spent most of my free time today finishing up my list of domains that I am going to register. Due to the fact that I listen to rap music I have been searching for domains of these artists that are avaliable. I used to own a Young Jeezy domain and it was making $5.00 on its highest months which is not bad at all for just parking. I have about 15-20 names that I want to register and think that I can get some good numbers in the resale market about four months down the road when all extensions are picked up. That is about all I have done today already recieved two uniques on the name I picked up yesterday.

Day #2 Bought Some Domains

I was checking on eBay today and found a few really nice names even though they were trademarked I still felt that I could get a quick sale based on OTV and search results. Well I lost the auction in the last seconds and added a few domains to watch. Shortly after I started looking for good .info names to register because they have been so cheap lately. I found a couple and wrote them down and pondered them for a bit but decided that two of the three would probally not get traffic. The name I registered was LupeFiasoco.info he is a up and comming rap star and after hearing some of his music on MTV Jams he is pretty darn good.

Wassulu Muhammad Jaco (born and raised in Chicago, Illinois), known professionally as Lupe Fiasco (pronounced LOO-PAY), is an American rapper. (Lupe says his name is a reference to his nickname from Hispanic friends from the "Loo" in Wassulu and the word "fiasco" which means "disgrace"). Lupe first became known to the mainstream hip-hop music when he appeared on the song "Touch the Sky" from Kayne Wests sophomore album Late Reistration. He is to release his debut album, Lupe Fiascos Food and Liquor on Atlantic Records in spring 2006. He released a preview track for the album in August 2005, named "Kick, Push," which showcased his interest in skateboarding

Read more here

Day #2 Network for sale!

I listed an Incentive Network for sale at SitePoint and NamePros. I choose to do an auction because I believe that a good bidding war will start from that rather then just putting one price. I will updated this blog with any bids that come in and the final price that it gets. I will only get half of the final total because I have been running the site with a partner. My goal for this week is to acquire as many quality domains as I can and start getting a good portolio build. Well that is all that has happened so far today quite alot and hopefully I will get some offers comming in by the end of the day.

Day #1 Introduction

I have been using the internet for about five to six years but not until recently tried to make money with it. I have no clue on the actual number of teens (under 18) that make good money off the internet but I am sure it is very low. Hopefully I can prove to all of the readers that this goal is achievable and spark interest for them to do the same. To make this task ten times harder I know very little about web design and will be unable to develop websites by myself. Due to being underage I will be unable to make any money using Google Adsense™™ or any of the other advertising networks. Hopefully I can find an alternative to this but at least I can always do it the old fashion way putting "Advertise Here" links up and selling those spots. Now I'm sure your thinking to yourself How is he going to make that much money then? My ideas are outlined below.

How I play on achieving my goal:

• Buying domains and selling for higher price.
• Creating forums with the names that will need development.
• Selling advertisements on this blog and my developed sites.
• Playing Poker at .25/50 tables a couple times daily.
• Buying and reselling items oneBayy.
  -Buying in bulk and then selling for profit already have 100% positive feedback.
• Doing side projects such as paid posting and building a network of friends that can help me build my sites at a astonishing pace.

I will update this Blog daily with the domains that I purchased and any money that I have made that day. Hopefully this will end up a success and I can look back on this post in 2007 and see how far I have come. Hope the readers can inspire me to push this to the next level!

Feel free to post any comments or ideas that you have for me I would love to here them. I set the comments to be approved before showing up to eliminate the spam and useless ones.