strategy Homeless Man Spends Change on Domain

RCBitking said:

Hey friends,

I wanted to pass this along. Eugene is a homeless entrepreneur working odd jobs. Domaining could become one.

“I’m buying land!” ~ Eugene, a homeless man in NC buying his first domain, for under 2 bucks.

Who knows whether (BlackGolf.club) will fetch him enough for a pair of boots…or more. Surviving is on your mind in a shelter. Owning real estate is not even on the map.

I've often wondered about the idea of educating someone living in a shelter or a car to develop domains as virtual real estate. I had a scholarship to attend Namescon in Austin Texas recently. The people I met were incredible. I was blessed to have time with Harold Nue, Dave Evanson, Rob Monster, Alvin Brown, and then, thanks to Jorge Verdugo, go to lunch with a few veteran domainers and the Booth Brothers.

One day looked down, out my 6th floor window at The Omni, and saw a surreal picture. On the left, an international group of investors/CEOs/domainers... eating breakfast, networking and about to bid on seven figure domain names. To my right, just outside the hotel, a group of homeless men and women waiting in line in the cold as a church opened it’s doors for a hot meal.

Surely, I thought, someone in that group to the right could turn a profit if given a chance to invest. I've been working on this in my city. For Eugene, a homeless hustler, buying BlackGolf.club wasn’t his first step.

He pulled an old laptop out of his bag at the soup kitchen a few months ago, and asked for help using it. I became convinced that his curiosity, intuitiveness, and street sense made him a great candidate for a new type of social entrepreneurship. Besides, he’s been my friend for years.

So, after weeks of tutorial over lunch (and providing him clothes, reading glasses and bus passes) we researched, strategized, and opened his own account. With the popular “.club” domain on sale at $1.57, and, although high, an Estibot appraisal of $1,900, he laughed and pulled the trigger.

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RCBitking said:

Hey friends,

I wanted to pass this along. Eugene is a homeless entrepreneur working odd jobs. Domaining could become one.

“I’m buying land!” ~ Eugene, a homeless man in NC buying his first domain, for under 2 bucks.

Who knows whether (BlackGolf.club) will fetch him enough for a pair of boots…or more. Surviving is on your mind in a shelter. Owning real estate is not even on the map.

I've often wondered about the idea of educating someone living in a shelter or a car to develop domains as virtual real estate. I had a scholarship to attend Namescon in Austin Texas recently. The people I met were incredible. I was blessed to have time with Harold Nue, Dave Evanson, Rob Monster, Alvin Brown, and then, thanks to Jorge Verdugo, go to lunch with a few veteran domainers and the Booth Brothers.

One day looked down, out my 6th floor window at The Omni, and saw a surreal picture. On the left, an international group of investors/CEOs/domainers... eating breakfast, networking and about to bid on seven figure domain names. To my right, just outside the hotel, a group of homeless men and women waiting in line in the cold as a church opened it’s doors for a hot meal.

Surely, I thought, someone in that group to the right could turn a profit if given a chance to invest. I've been working on this in my city. For Eugene, a homeless hustler, buying BlackGolf.club wasn’t his first step.

He pulled an old laptop out of his bag at the soup kitchen a few months ago, and asked for help using it. I became convinced that his curiosity, intuitiveness, and street sense made him a great candidate for a new type of social entrepreneurship. Besides, he’s been my friend for years.

So, after weeks of tutorial over lunch (and providing him clothes, reading glasses and bus passes) we researched, strategized, and opened his own account. With the popular “.club” domain on sale at $1.57, and, although high, an Estibot appraisal of $1,900, he laughed and pulled the trigger.

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RCBitking said:

Hey friends,

I wanted to pass this along. Eugene is a homeless entrepreneur working odd jobs. Domaining could become one.

“I’m buying land!” ~ Eugene, a homeless man in NC buying his first domain, for under 2 bucks.

Who knows whether (BlackGolf.club) will fetch him enough for a pair of boots…or more. Surviving is on your mind in a shelter. Owning real estate is not even on the map.

I've often wondered about the idea of educating someone living in a shelter or a car to develop domains as virtual real estate. I had a scholarship to attend Namescon in Austin Texas recently. The people I met were incredible. I was blessed to have time with Harold Nue, Dave Evanson, Rob Monster, Alvin Brown, and then, thanks to Jorge Verdugo, go to lunch with a few veteran domainers and the Booth Brothers.

One day looked down, out my 6th floor window at The Omni, and saw a surreal picture. On the left, an international group of investors/CEOs/domainers... eating breakfast, networking and about to bid on seven figure domain names. To my right, just outside the hotel, a group of homeless men and women waiting in line in the cold as a church opened it’s doors for a hot meal.

Surely, I thought, someone in that group to the right could turn a profit if given a chance to invest. I've been working on this in my city. For Eugene, a homeless hustler, buying BlackGolf.club wasn’t his first step.

He pulled an old laptop out of his bag at the soup kitchen a few months ago, and asked for help using it. I became convinced that his curiosity, intuitiveness, and street sense made him a great candidate for a new type of social entrepreneurship. Besides, he’s been my friend for years.

So, after weeks of tutorial over lunch (and providing him clothes, reading glasses and bus passes) we researched, strategized, and opened his own account. With the popular “.club” domain on sale at $1.57, and, although high, an Estibot appraisal of $1,900, he laughed and pulled the trigger.

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frank-germany said:

to me, it sounds like you spend too much time with Rob

so in the US homeless people have access to wireless?
they do carry laptops / iPhones?

how about being robbed?
( sorry Rob .. )
as a homeless that's a severe thread, I would think

how about the current?
do they have access to power?

how do they pay their TMobil bill?
don't they need a permanent address for that?
and how about the taxes?

the whole story sounds nice
but to me, I would think
there are some problems to be solved, first.

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RCBitking said:

Thanks for the reply. I didn't even understand these replies were here till this morning.

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Recons.Com said:

You seem not even understand the difference between an auction and a listing.

It is listed on Sedo with 50 minimum offer. So your post is misleading. No one has offered or bid anything on this. And the name is complete trash.

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creataweb said:

Avtar's one story reminds me of this guy

Let's hope Eugene's $2 investment pays off with some work and some reading around NP, maybe he'll be the next from $2 to a baller success story.

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WhoaDomain.com said:

There are many stories like this in the world.

Here's a few I remember.

1. Vietnamese immigrant came to this country with only $50 to his name. He washed dishes cleaned houses. Then got a job in a hair and nails salon in Flatbush Ave. Brooklyn sweeping th hair from the floor.

He found a wig maker in NYC and asked how much he would pay for real hair. So he collected long cut hair. Specifically blonde hair. Natural hair is expensive. Back then women wanted the short look. Some even went full bald. He made a killing.

Saved up enough money and went to nail school to learn how to do nails and get a license.

Then he started to work on the same salon he was sweeping at.

Saved his money for years. Finally opened his own nail salon.

Now he owns 8. Each one generating $10-$15 a month net not gross.

2. Next. Homeless crack addict in Jersey City. Got clean. But has a record. So no one would hire him.

Took his welfare check. Bought cleaning supplies. Windex, Clorox, squeegie, rags mop.

Went to every main St where there's stores. Employees of such stores get paid minimum wage. None really wants to clean the store windows or the dirty bathroom.
But they'd pool $10-$20 to have Windows and bathroom cleaned or even have the floors mopped.

He also shoveled the snow off cars in winter.

He hustled. No drugs.

Saved his money.

Bought a used food truck. He was actually a pretty good cook. Took his mom's recipe for Pasteles. It's like a Puerto Rican Tamales but made with green bananas and seasoned pork.

This thing is time intensive. People know someone has to prepare this the night before. It's not "fast food". It's the kinda food grandma's make for you the day before.

So people will pay $2.50-$3.50 for each one. Is overhead for each was like 75 cents.

After that he got off welfare. And kept buying more food trucks. Now he owns 6.

3. This one is from my country. Homeless man with a family. 4 kids. No job.

He collected food for his wife from the city dump. Food that's been thrown in the garbage. From fast food or restaurants.

Wife and kids would sift throw the food. Throw out the rotten food. Keep the meat. People waste food so much.

She would then reseason the meat. Spices.

Then open up shop and sell to the people who live around the city dump who collect recyclables for a living. They trust her food plus she either fries the food really good or boils in for hours.

I had the food a few times. Their kids were my friends from grammar school. Last I heard my friend's mother opened a legit restaurant in the center of town.

All her food leftover for the day she donates to her old customers from the dumps. Some actually work for her now.

4. New York. Homeless man. Hangs around Gramercy park. Rich people talk to him because he's a nice guy. They give him food.

Funny thing about rich people. They drive fancy cars but still want to park on the street in NYC. Lol. They don't want to pay to park in a lot. Cheap bastards! Well I guess that's how rich people stay rich yea? So this guy made up his own hustle.
He parks cars or holds a spot for them in the street for $5 sometimes $10 tip.

Plus since he's "out there anyway" he's like their luxury car's own personal security guard.


He's actually called the cops when someone tried to steal one of his "neighbors" cars.

He's even done "house sitting" for people. Rich people actually giving him the keys to their multi-million dollar townhouses.

Just Google Gramercy Area NYC and you will get the idea.

He does dog walking. He's them bring stuff from their cars to their house.

I hear he clears about $40,000-$50,000 a year tax free. But you did not hear that from me!!?

Those are just some stories I know of over the years.

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equity78 said:

Any updates here?

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