Gighalen Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 A few months ago, I registered the domain www.officepixels.com with the intentions of starting a $1/pixel advertising site. I've since then learned that it isn't as easy as it looks. What should I do with the domain? I was thinking about starting a image hosting site, but IDK. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleary1981 Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 if it was me I would just park the site and try make some money through advertising. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-859502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 What kind of skills do you have? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-859505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
proggR Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 A few months ago, I registered the domain www.officepixels.com with the intentions of starting a $1/pixel advertising site. Sounds like the million dollar homepage to me Maybe a website where people upload pics of their workplace. Or perhaps a virtual office based mmorpg game. Kind of Habbo Hotel looking characters (pixels) and you have to compete for job promotions and get work done. That would be hard to make but I'd probably play it. I wish the sims had more of a business-like twist. I don't want to micro manage my characters eating and cleaning schedule, I want to control its career. Maybe its just me though. Or maybe you could have a Bingo like game where people pay 5 cents to get a pixel co-ordinate and once so many are bought a random one is selected and the person wins a prize. At 5 cents a pixel, an array of 800 by 800 pixels sold would still be $32000, more than enough to pay for whatever the prize is and pocket money. Why am I giving away these ideas again? I better see a cheque if anything like these make a money on that domain lol. I'll keep an eye on it Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-859913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 A few months ago, I registered the domain www.officepixels.com with the intentions of starting a $1/pixel advertising site. wow people still go for that sort of thing? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-859976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 I don't understand what this means. So someone pays you for pixels? I don't get it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-859979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 A few months ago, I registered the domain www.officepixels.com with the intentions of starting a $1/pixel advertising site. wow people still go for that sort of thing? Second that - I thought that was a 90's thing? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-859987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 I don't understand what this means. So someone pays you for pixels? I don't get it. I think its similar to this concept (you pay for a chunk of pixel grid space to place your company's logo for instance). Sorry to the mods/admin, not trying to 'advertise' that link's service or anything.. just for illustrative purposes. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-860139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 I don't understand what this means. So someone pays you for pixels? I don't get it. I think its similar to this concept (you pay for a chunk of pixel grid space to place your company's logo for instance). Sorry to the mods/admin, not trying to 'advertise' that link's service or anything.. just for illustrative purposes. Haha, just don't do it as bad as them: Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Access denied for user: 'castore@208.109.138.42' (Using password: YES) in /home/content/c/b/a/cbarr221/html/ezban/config.php(135) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-860152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohdang888 Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 I think its similar to this concept (you pay for a chunk of pixel grid space to place your company's logo for instance). i just don't understand why people would go to these sites to honestly look through a million pixels to find an interesting site when you have google or other search engines. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-860277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Those sites depend on 2 things: 1) the domain name being so good/kickass/common that random people tend to find it on their own 2) companies being gullible enough to think hey yah this is stupid, but can we afford NOT to do it? Works especially well the better #1 is and if said company has competitors listed Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-860300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Wow, that one website nrg_alpha mentioned has some pretty big names to it! Vonage, tigerdirect, godaddy, etc. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-860317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 I only chose that site because when I goggled 'pixel advertising', it was the second link (after the Wikipedia definition link). So it wasn't for the names on it so much as the site's concept more than anything. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-860328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Wow, that one website nrg_alpha mentioned has some pretty big names to it! Vonage, tigerdirect, godaddy, etc. I call fake. I doubt somebody like tigerdirect or godaddy would really be dumb enough to do that Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162870-what-should-i-do/#findComment-860474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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