How to Make A Couple Easy G's.

[johnny-]

its really easy, you just have to be patient. so look up the top high school basketball players. odds are none of them will have a legit site in their name right now. so all you need to do is buy like 50 domains, and name them all after the top 50 hs bball players..

example: say there is a player named steve jackson (just made that up). you would buy stevejackson.com

anyways, you keep these sites for a few years. now, odds are many of these players have made it to the nba. and a few will even hit the bigtime. now some bigwig will try to create a site in that players name only to find out its taken (by you). so you make them a deal you will sell them the site in exchange for a decent amount of money. hopefully this works for a few players and you have made a lot of money easily

for example kobebryant.com redirects to kobe's website

cliffs:
1. find people who aren't really that famous yet but will be soon
2. buy websites in their name
3. sell in a few years when the people become superstars

 

[.Hack]

So basically pay $10 for 50 sites for 5-8 years until they get drafted. LOLZ

 

[johnny-]

So basically pay $10 for 50 sites for 5-8 years until they get drafted. LOLZ

Gotta think longterm son

 

[jorarulit]

damn.

 

[battlefork]

Cybersquatting act?

 

[defelice]

i personally think this is retarded but if it makes someone money then congrats

 

[Incantation]

Could be good for reality TV stars as well, as they usually rise to stardom over a very short period! Using the example of Leona Lewis... if you look at LeonaLewis.com, it's just a pretty much blank screen, not even being monetized! At Google.com that site is on the second page for "Leona Lewis" with hardly any backlinking and that term gets 88,300 searches a day. Gotta get there early.

 

[Deliguy]

i actually do this with tv shows and inventions. I own bullybeatdown.net which gets good typin traffic and some iptv domains.

 

[Goodcat]

Domainers have been doing this for years in every imaginable niche, including up-and-coming actors

 

[mpbiz]

its really easy, you just have to be patient. so look up the top high school basketball players. odds are none of them will have a legit site in their name right now. so all you need to do is buy like 50 domains, and name them all after the top 50 hs bball players..

example: say there is a player named steve jackson (just made that up). you would buy stevejackson.com

anyways, you keep these sites for a few years. now, odds are many of these players have made it to the nba. and a few will even hit the bigtime. now some bigwig will try to create a site in that players name only to find out its taken (by you). so you make them a deal you will sell them the site in exchange for a decent amount of money. hopefully this works for a few players and you have made a lot of money easily

for example kobebryant.com redirects to kobe's website

cliffs:
1. find people who aren't really that famous yet but will be soon
2. buy websites in their name
3. sell in a few years when the people become superstars

good idea but nothing new.. tons of people already do this for actors, singers, tv shows, etc the list goes on

 

[jorarulit]

i actually do this with tv shows and inventions. I own bullybeatdown.net which gets good typin traffic and some iptv domains.

omg, bully beat down... that show is so gay it's epic.:rasta:

 

[Yaxxx]

Cybersquatting act?

i think you'll be fine if you don't have basketball content or try to make $ from the site. also, chances are the name will be fairly generic and you have the fact that you reg'd the domain years before he hit the big time on your side.

 

[AllBizNiz]

I tried to register a domain of some 8 year old kid. I saw a news story about this kid being a basketball bad ass and tried to register his name. Somebody beat me to that shit.

 

[moomycow]

Welcome to 1998!

 

[eat it Murphy]

High school basketball players? You crazy, you gotta get those kids in elementary school:


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[kingfish]

This thread is so full of fail it's incredible.

 

[Andrew Scherer]

hahahaha

 

[PinHead1424]

how about just register bad_ideas.com and list this one on it. Fairly sure in the long run with the lawyers out there, you will have more legal expenses than profits. As has been said, this is nothing new (really like the 'welcome to 1998' comment). With that said, keep the ideas coming, that is the whole purpose. They don't all have to be good.

 

[justo_tx]

I have some luck with a similar strategy to that of the OP, but instead of basket ball players I registered possible future tv shows. There's always a new CSI coming out, I already have:

csi-cinncinati.com
csi-boise.com

and what I think will be the breakout show of 2011: csi-fargo.com

It works with Law & Order too:

lawandorder-publicindecency.com
lawandorder-mailfraud.com
lawandorder-mattresstagremoval.net <-- the .com was already registered.

 

[hectic]

This strategy might work if you sold the domains cheaply and got lucky on volume. Like maybe had them all on Sedo for less than $1k each.

But since a lot of businesses are wise about URDP proceedings these days, they can take the domains away relatively easily for $2000 + costs, especially if you are parking them or can't make a legit claim on why you registered them.

Cybersquatting (for big $ at least) is over, I think.