Pricing diary
Why a square is $10, not $100
The lower price is not a discount timer. It is the standard price for an ordinary 10×10 location outside the separately governed center.
The old minimum created a useful reference
The Guardian reported that the Million Dollar Homepage sold pixels for one dollar each but required a minimum purchase of 100 pixels, making the smallest useful 10×10 block cost $100. That price made sense inside a project aiming to sell one million individual pixels for one million dollars.
Milliondollarinternet keeps the million-pixel map and the 10×10 base unit, then changes the standard price to ten cents per pixel: $10 for 100 pixels. The decision makes participation closer to an impulse-sized creative purchase while preserving a finite coordinate. It does not make every region identical; the locked central 100×100 follows separate rules when it opens September 1.
Low price does not mean inflated promises
For $10, a verified standard placement receives its chosen available location, artwork or color, title, destination link, public hover identity, and Hall of Internet card. It does not receive guaranteed clicks, search rankings, sales, or future resale value. Stating the boundary clearly matters more than making the offer sound enormous.
The purchase is one-time for the approved placement and is intended to remain on the public canvas. The project still has real costs: payment processing, media storage, database records, security, moderation, and delivery at the edge. A price can be accessible without pretending those systems are free.
Why not begin at one dollar
A one-dollar block would make fees consume a large share of every transaction and encourage disposable submissions. Ten dollars is still small enough for an individual experiment, but high enough to ask for an intentional image, link, and location. It also keeps the arithmetic understandable: each standard 10×10 unit adds $10 to a larger selection.
There is no fake launch discount scheduled to disappear tomorrow. If standard pricing changes in the future, the live checkout and rules must say so before payment. Today the simple public promise is the one on every call to action: select a 10×10 square, pay $10 once, and add it to a canvas intended to stay.
Your square can start at $10
Select a 10×10 square for $10, pay once, and it is intended to stay on the public canvas.