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Re: [CW] Domain Name, server ...
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Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:22:50 GMT
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> 2.  Of course doing this and getting a domain name does cost.  In the NELUG
> case I did all the initial funding and since then I have recieved a couple of
> donations toward the site from members although it has not covered my initial
> outlay.  I don't know how much Pawel is planning to fund this himself but here
> are my ideas for funding the site.

Well .. being a college student, I really can't afford to fund it all
myself.  That's what I'm thinking about right now ...

> A.  Have a membership fee.  This is not the best approach in my mind because it
> is exclusionary.

I don't see us doing that at any time ... we could have "sponsors" of the
page - people that would be willing to donate a few bucks or creations for the
page to continue having it's own domain name, etc ...

> B.  Take voluntary donations.  This is good although without knowing how much
> Pawel is spending it is hard to judge how much to give in order to cover costs.

That's true ... I will have to give this more thought.  I think this could
go under the "sponsors" part of the page.  What are your thoughts on that?  A
special section for people that have helped out with making CW grow and
expand ... I suppose these would be the equivalent of boosters in sports;)

> C.  Sign up for some affiliate programs.  My idea here would be to set up a
> "Store" on Castle world where people could buy Castle LEGO from say E-Toy's or
> Amazon.com.  I did this for a while with Star Wars LEGO on my old site and I
> made over $50 with almost no effort.  The way this works is you go to the
> stores site and sign up for the program then using their instructions you set
> up links to anything from their home page down to individual products.  Then
> any time someone buy's product after coming through your link you get a
> percentage of the sale.  Actually Todd does this in the Pause database as well.
> For an example look at the bottom of this page.

Great idea!  Any more info on that ... ?

Thanks!

-- pn



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(...) Or, you could do what a lot of "free" places on the web do. Have a base service level that is free. And offer other services for those willing to pay a fee. This could be increased disk space, more functionality, maybe an @castleworld.org (...) (27 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)

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<snip> (...) Well I have been stuck in airports for the last 2 days so I have missed quite a bit. I do have a few suggestions here though. 1. I think pair.com is great it is where the NELUG site ( (URL) is hosted and I have been very happy with (...) (27 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)

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