DomainPeers.com Helps You CrowdSource Web Development

Monday, March 21st, 2011

New site brings together basic building blocks of domain development.

A new web site seeks to help domain name owners develop their domain names with the power of crowdsourcing.

DomainPeers.com brings together logo and template design as well as web hosting for one site a week day. Domain owners can submit their domain for voting by the community. Once the community picks the weekly site, designers and hosting companies go to work. The community then selects the winning designs.

The designers get paid with a portion of sponsorship fees. Companies can sponsor the weekly competitions and get exposure. (Update: each competition lasts a week, but a new one starts every day.)

This is a neat idea if the site can bring together all of the necessary players — primarily designers and sponsors. Still, it doesn’t solve one of the biggest problems plaguing domainers getting into the development game — content.

So if you’re going to use the service I recommend only submitting domain names you’re passionate about and are willing to put in the elbow grease required to build out great content.

Further Reading:

  1. Rick Latona Launches “Last Piece of the Domain Development Puzzle”

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  1. Bill Sweetman
    March 21st, 2011 | 6:18 pm

    Interesting concept indeed, but it also doesn’t solve *another* one of the biggest problems plaguing domainers getting into the development game — scale.

    Developing one domain a week isn’t going to work for holders of hundreds or thousands of domains.

  2. Andrew Allemann
    March 21st, 2011 | 7:26 pm

    @ Bill Sweetman – so long as the sites depend on Google for their traffic, I don’t know if trying to develop multiple domains in scale makes sense. A better bet is to develop a small amount of sites deeply rather than thousands of sites thinly.

  3. Kevin Ohashi
    March 22nd, 2011 | 9:13 am

    Interesting idea, I do wonder what sort of commitment you have to make? If I submit a domain and it wins, do I have to keep that design and logo? For how long? Any other strings?

  4. John
    March 22nd, 2011 | 9:42 am

    Thanks for posting about the site Andrew.

    @Kevin, there is no commitment whatsoever. You get the free stuff and you do with it what you like – you get full rights to the designs.

    After your prizes are delivered you can ditch the logo and template and prizes if you are not happy with them.

    Best regards,

    John

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