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After a lot of hours spent on putting together and then fine-tuning the site, I am proud to announce the soft launch of DomainPeers.com – the peer-powered domain development platform.
What is DomainPeers?
DomainPeers.com is a crowdsourced, “peer-powered”, domain development platform – an amalgam of crowd sourcing, contests, link building and social marketing all catered to the domainer (webmaster) and aimed at promoting and getting traffic and exposure for, and finally developing domain names.
Why “peer-powered”?
Starting from 22 March 2011 at 00:00:00 Los Angeles time, DomainPeers.com will launch one “peer-powered project” per day, every day. Each project lasts for 7 days. Each project is conducted purely based on peer participation and interaction. Candidate domain names are voted into project mode by peers. Logos, templates, hosting packages and other prizes (like css/xhtml conversion, theme coding, advertising etc) are voted up by peers with the winning entries being the ones with the highest vote count at the end of the project. The winning entries are awarded to project owners free of charge.
Currently, DomainPeers is accepting candidate domain names for the first project.
Why should I participate?
There are a number of reasons why you should participate, regardless of whether you participate as a sponsor, domain owner, prize provider, hosting provider, designer or otherwise. By participating you gain exposure for your brand, get permanent links to your websites and domain names, get traffic, and of course, get the chance to develop your domain name for free. Designers of course get paid for their winning entries, which is always good.
How transparent is the process?
The process is completely transparent. You can view all votes for prizes, logos, hosts and templates by clicking on the vote count on the specific entry screens. Total vote counts are also shown on all top entry lists. For domain names, because the vote counts can be reset daily (depending on how many days the domain is activated for), you can use the domain vote history screen to view past vote counts.
How are winners selected?
Starting from 2011-03-22 00:00:00, every day at 00:00:00 a new project will be launched. The domain name candidate with the most peer votes from the previous day at 00:00:00 will be promoted to project. At the same time, for projects whose 7 day duration is up – logo, template, prize and hosting package winners will be selected based on the same principle (most votes = winner).
Think you own a domain name worthy of peer-powered development? Submit it at DomainPeers.com now. For further information about the entire process, please read the faq on our site.
We kicked things off some 8 hours ago and already have some interesting development candidates. Currently in the lead are cssmanual.com and hiring.com - with 3 plus days to go before things really explode into action.
Any questions? Ask away and I'll try my best to answer.
Jonathan
What is DomainPeers?
DomainPeers.com is a crowdsourced, “peer-powered”, domain development platform – an amalgam of crowd sourcing, contests, link building and social marketing all catered to the domainer (webmaster) and aimed at promoting and getting traffic and exposure for, and finally developing domain names.
Why “peer-powered”?
Starting from 22 March 2011 at 00:00:00 Los Angeles time, DomainPeers.com will launch one “peer-powered project” per day, every day. Each project lasts for 7 days. Each project is conducted purely based on peer participation and interaction. Candidate domain names are voted into project mode by peers. Logos, templates, hosting packages and other prizes (like css/xhtml conversion, theme coding, advertising etc) are voted up by peers with the winning entries being the ones with the highest vote count at the end of the project. The winning entries are awarded to project owners free of charge.
Currently, DomainPeers is accepting candidate domain names for the first project.
Why should I participate?
There are a number of reasons why you should participate, regardless of whether you participate as a sponsor, domain owner, prize provider, hosting provider, designer or otherwise. By participating you gain exposure for your brand, get permanent links to your websites and domain names, get traffic, and of course, get the chance to develop your domain name for free. Designers of course get paid for their winning entries, which is always good.
How transparent is the process?
The process is completely transparent. You can view all votes for prizes, logos, hosts and templates by clicking on the vote count on the specific entry screens. Total vote counts are also shown on all top entry lists. For domain names, because the vote counts can be reset daily (depending on how many days the domain is activated for), you can use the domain vote history screen to view past vote counts.
How are winners selected?
Starting from 2011-03-22 00:00:00, every day at 00:00:00 a new project will be launched. The domain name candidate with the most peer votes from the previous day at 00:00:00 will be promoted to project. At the same time, for projects whose 7 day duration is up – logo, template, prize and hosting package winners will be selected based on the same principle (most votes = winner).
Think you own a domain name worthy of peer-powered development? Submit it at DomainPeers.com now. For further information about the entire process, please read the faq on our site.
We kicked things off some 8 hours ago and already have some interesting development candidates. Currently in the lead are cssmanual.com and hiring.com - with 3 plus days to go before things really explode into action.
Any questions? Ask away and I'll try my best to answer.
Jonathan
