UCONN STUDENT LAUNCHES MILLION DOLLAR WEBSITE

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(Free-Press-Release.com) June 7, 2007 --

NEW HAVEN, Conn – June 7, 2007 – A student at the Univeristy of Connecticut has launched a new website that is on track to make him a million dollars. The Million Dollar Wiki (www.MillionDollarWiki.com) is a website similar to Wikipedia.com but with one important difference: every page of the website costs one hundred dollars. The pages are public for everyone to see, but only the owner of a page can add content to it. That means that only one person will own the page for “Business,” one person will own the page for “Newspaper,” and so on. The goal of the site’s creator, Graham Langdon, is to sell ten thousand words thus making one million dollars. So far, he has sold words every day since the website launched.

“It’s quite simple,” said Langdon, the twenty-one year old founder. “Say you have an internet business that sells flowers. You could buy the “flowers” page and fill it with all sorts of information, images, and links to your site. It’s a great way to advertise your business, and you are the only person that can put anything on that page as long as the site is up. I think people are rushing to buy pages because they realize that once a page is purchased, that’s it. It’s no longer available.”

People are also in a rush to buy pages for an entirely different reason. If you purchase a page, you can turn around and sell it for a profit. The scenario Langdon describes is one in which someone has purchased a word of some value, the “Business” page for example. The person who purchased it only paid $100, but because it is the only page for “Business” someone might be willing to pay several hundred or possibly several thousand dollars for that page. The owner of the page can sell the page for a profit, and the new owner can then put whatever they want on the page.

Only a week old, the website has already generated a thousand dollars and thousands of hits. “No one has ever done this before,” said Langdon, who started the website to pay off his college debt. “It kind of reminds me of the dot-com frenzy to purchase premium domain names. Everyone wants to buy the good pages before someone else does.” Langdon anticipates he will make the entire million dollars in only a few months.

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Media contact:
Graham Langdon
Graham@MillionDollarWiki.com
Phone: 203.415.6545