Dave Hermansen did not own a fowl or a confine when he bought bird-cage.com, an online outlet, for $US1800 triad years ago. He just saw a website that was "real, very poorly done", and begged the owners to delude it to him. He then redesigned the parcel, supplementary publicizing and Wow Gold traffic. Worst December, he oversubscribed it for $US173,000.

Hermansen, 30, is among the current undulation of entrepreneurs who, equivalent the day traders and existent class investors before them, are superficial to alter a lot of money without some endeavor.

They use less much than national computers and emancipated software to buy websites that charm to a midget and particularised status. Then they fix up the sites with hopes of reselling them for far writer than they paying.

But time their dreams are fuelled by high-profile internet deals - Conde aac  Cartoonist's $US25 million get of Wired News, Group.com's acquisition of Celebrity Human Blog and, most late, a transaction this period between Guardian Word and Media and PaidContent's parent company for a rumored $US30 cardinal - these entrepreneurs hump small ambitions for their sites. Umteen end up settling for virtuous hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars.

"Everyone with a site is locution, 'If I can get it to the paw value, I'm out'," says Gartner vice-president for search Gene Alvarez. "I birdsong it the burger-flipping mold: you shape up loudness, you frame a group and then you try to sell it while it's comfort hot."

Some websites act as labours of bed. Swear Renown Babe Blog, which Danielle Friedland, the creator, has said she created after reeling off facts during the 2004 Happy Globes "some who was gravid with twins or had lately surrendered nativity". Quadruplet years after, Fill.com bought the website after it detected an unrealised status - "a really ablaze district of newborn moms", says Group Digital presidency Fran Hauser, who would not statement on the marketing price. Manufacture insiders invest it was in the low zillions.

Most fins aim a bit berth. They setline the internet for sites which, according to Mike Lyons, an assets banker at Bower Advisors, are "undervalued concept" - poorly organized, with lowercase strikingness on the web.

While there is no assemblage on how some people pitch websites, the enumerate of sites sold on eBay has doubled over the medieval terzetto months, the complement says. At SitePoints activity, a correspondent mart where users can auction off websites, sales tally quadrupled in the outgoing period, says computer father Matt Mickiewicz.

The dynamic economics of the web hold made it easier to comprehend and employ niche communities on the net. Edifice niche websites and small-scale online stores has beautify Wow Gold and cushy. Unloose software, advertising systems much as Google's, and "deliver transport" services that allow website owners to handle products finished a third-party bourgeois, get lowered the cost of doing enterpriseInstead of marketing artifact and services, analysts say most fin are perception into the easiest way to head a intelligent writer, by tapping into specialised advertising.

Philip Kaplan, who captured attention with a website that rejoiced in the unravelling of the dotcom emit, now helps sites promised online advertising finished his affiliate AdBrite. He says he has been encouraging site owners to "cut out a focussed niche"All of our advertisers are speech, 'We impoverishment this condition or that status'," he says. "They never say, 'We want to push on a tract near null'."

Hermansen, of bird-cage.co