Comments on: Blackmailers try to black out Million Dollar Homepage

Popular pixel ad site comes under DoS attack from hackers who are demanding a ransom to stop, site's owner says.

[Dead Soulman]

What a bunch of jealous cowards.

See, that's what's wrong with some people. They see someone who came up with a brilliant idea on how to, legitimally, make money. Now, these jealous cowards, for lack of better word, come to attack and destroy it.

People who get into this extortion practices should get castrated and have them fed to the lions.

You can run, but you can't hide !!!

Not entirely true...

You can hide in RUSSIA. They have crap for internet laws there.

[jash69]

this guy is a fraud!

i can't believe he's not finishing school. this guy has absolutely zero integrity. i love the original idea ever since i read about him back in the summer. if i were one of his advertisers, i'd sue him for breach of contract and deceptive advertisers.

[David Arbogast]

Why?

What makes him a fraud? He has no integrity because he was able to make $1 million after dropping out of school? Do you have any idea how many people have dropped out of school to make their fortune? And do you have any clue how many of them used their new money to go back to school? On what basis do you declare this man a fraud and lacking in integrity?

And... if you were one of his advertisers, I'm sure your law suit would be thrown out. Have you ever read a contract governing online services?

Why do you immediately attack the victim of hackers? Do you feel that these hackers are providing a valuable service? That they have some right to spread virii and control people's computers to launch DoS attacks against those you don't like? Should we DDoS attack every person who dropped out of college?

[whiterabbit--2008]

It's a good idea, but really the page sucks

I agree that it was a great idea, he did make a lot of money from it; but it really doesn't look like a business model that will last, At least not without a few changes.

The amount of business only happens in bursts. Right now there are only a few thousand pixels left. All the ads that are currently up will not expire for about five years. That means he is not going to get any more business for five years. Nothing "new" will be on the page for five years. The page will be very out of date by that time. Without new content, people won't be visiting the page in five years.

In fact, there actually is nothing to keep people comming back for more. There is no reason anybody would view the page more than once, to see what the deal is.

I like to be informed as much as the next guy, so I do apreciate some level of advertising, however I completely dispise advertisiments (and anyone displaying them,) which are "sleezy." The MillionDollarHomepage is filled with this stuff. Maybe you need an example, here is a banner that reads "SEX." I click on the ad and up pops a web page claiming that they will "pay me to browse the internet and more if I refer my friends to do the same." Here's another one, get a free iPod, all you have to do is sign up for a few trial subscriptions to things you don't want.

This page will never really be a succes until these shortfalls are dealt with.

[Mister C]

Pardon?

Would you like some cheese with that?

[microsoft slayer]

You're just jealous

Why don't you come up with somethine creative and stop whining.

[timb2006]

Do the numbers

Think about it for a minute. The guy was able to sell 999,000 pixels without much publicity, but somehow, now he actually gets publicity, can't seem to move the last thousand or so in two weeks?

My guess is that "sold" might not exactly mean "sold"...

[robertsull]

Another guy trying the same thing just CHEAPER

I found this page http://www.500grandhomepage.com which is trying to do the same thing as Alex buy offering the pixels "cheaper". lol. The things people will do. I bet he'll get a few but nothing nearly close to what Alex did. Maybe the ruskies will go after him too! ha ha!

[ronniecray]

Cunning publicity stunt

No "Russian hackers" tried to blackmail him. It's just a publicity stunt to increase traffic to his lame website.
And he has not sold 990,000 pixels.

That's just another publicity stunt.

[AtariusRex]

Where did the links come from

If he didn't sell 990,000 pixels or however many, where did all the pages he linked to come from? What would the point
I'm very jealous, Its rare that something comes along to generate this much publicity and this kind of potential profit for someone.
Instead of talking about how he didn't do it or how hes making it up, why not think of your own idea. Like that guy who sold the Wedding dress on Ebay. Made a few bucks and got on TV.

[Mendz]

Good News... Bad News...

The good news is you can make a million dollars in less than a year. The bad news is you can also make a good target of criminals in the same year.

The good news is the kid's a millionare. The bad news is a lot of people are jealous and envious they attack the kid's million dollar idea with ideas of their own... ideas that never proved to be worth a dollar.

The good news is the kid's new idea of advertising online by selling/buying pixels. The bad news is someone's already capitalizing on it: http://www.milliondollarscript.com/ -- dunno if the kid's related to this outfit...

[AtariusRex]

Web Traffic

Could the enormous amount of web traffic generated by getting mentioned on these websites be tied to some of these thousands of DoS attacking hosts?

TechDirt, Cnet, and Digg have all been known to bring down a page by bringing their web traffic up by huge amounts.

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