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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Million-dollar home page has now sold out (updated)

The last 1,000 pixels on Alex Tew's Million Dollar Home Page have been sold, but not for $1,000: they went for $38,100 on this eBay auction.

I notice I first blogged the page here on September 12, 2005, which represents a pretty impressive earning rate.

The Washington Post has marked the event with another article, A Million to One -- no doubt the first of many.

Update: The site has just suffered some outages because of a major "distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, reports Netcraft. "The DDoS attacks raise the prospect that operating milliondollarhomepage.com may prove more expensive than Tew originally envisioned. Tew will not be charged for any additional bandwidth consumed by the attack. But as Weiss noted, defense against DDoS attacks is typically a paid service not included with basic hosting accounts."

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