Fantasy domaining contest runs through January 15.
Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest conference has an innovative contest going on right now: fantasy domaining.
It works similar to fantasy football. But instead of drafting players and watching their Sunday afternoon performance, you draft domain names and watch their pay-per-click performance.
Here’s how it works:
1. Select 35 domain names out of 1,000 owned by Oversee.net
2. Pick 25 of these to be your “in game” players. You can track the PPC performance of these domains with the goal of maximizing revenue. The actual PPC performance is based on the real results from the same day last year.
3. You can swap domain names from your bullpen (10 domains) to your active list (25 domains) at any time. You can also swap out domains from the list of 1,000 master domains — but only ten people can have a domain at any given time.
It sounds like a fun game, but the real reason to play is for prizes. The top player will win a ticket to February’s DOMAINfest Global, four nights in the hotel, and a $1,000 travel stipend. Not bad.
don says
cool concept, have to imagine this is going to become a major contributor to click fraud
don says
ok….didnt read the post very well to see its retroactive traffic, so disregard my previous comment )
duh says
time for an open list of domainers and their best 5+- domains, let everyone vote
who’s got the best properties?
John Bomhardt says
okay.
I’m slowly exiting the room backwards and closing the door behind me very quietly.
🙂
Louise says
This will separate the men from the boys. It’s on – I signed up! Woohoo!!! 🙂
Ed Muller says
This hardly seems like domaining. Gather the most typos and see who wins? A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Louise says
Wow! Thought I would be #1! But I’m #6! Learned a bit – didn’t I @ Andrew? – this past year! 🙂 Time to break out the big guns . . .