Xenite.Org

Advertising Rates

Dear advertiser,

Thank you for your interest in Xenite.Org. We appreciate your desire to learn more about us. The Xenite.Org Network presently serves more than 1,000,000 page views to approximately 100,000 unique visitors per month.

We offer a broad selection of content to the science fiction and fantasy community, including link directories, forums, essays, fan fiction, and original fiction. Including archives on other domains as well as offline archives, any of which may be moved back to Xenite.Org at any time, our content extends to over 30,000 static HTML pages and more than 100,000 dynamically served HTML pages. There is usually in excess of 2,000 pages of content on Xenite.Org itself. We manage several subsidiary domains which participate in our wholly owned and operated internal network.

Some of the content we carry is made available to us by individuals or commercial domains under certain stipulations or contractual agreements. These terms may not be transferable and may take precedence over new arrangements should we elect to alter our current status.

Xenite.Org and its sister sites are privately registered domains. Xenite.Org was founded in 1997 by Michael Martinez. We are not presently incorporated and all contractual agreements will be entered into by Mr. Martinez as an individual until such time as we elect to incorporate. All contracts must stipulate that there will be or allow without penalizing process an automatic 100 per cent, no fee, no penalty transfer of obligations from Mr. Martinez to said corporation.

Although we participate in certain affiliate/associate programs, these programs are retained on the basis of performance, as we use the fees we earn to pay our Web-hosting fees and any other associated expenses. We do not guarantee results to any particular merchandising programs nor that we will continue with them for any specific lengths of time.

We do operate internal banner networks which help us cross-promote our Web sites. From time to time, at our discretion, we will agree to promote other domains, sometimes commercial domains, in exchange for services or gratuities, provided such promotions do not require extensive redesign on our part. We are most likely to accept affiliate links used in conjunction with banner advertising. We may discontinue the use of banner ads in favor of text ads at our discretion.

Xenite.Org does not participate in the Linkshare, Commission Junction, and Reporting.Net networks.

We will NOT redesign our content to facilitate intrusive, non-standard, or new advertising designs. We will not host popup ads, popunder ads, or invasive Flash ads that users cannot control.

We require that any prospetive advertisers who wish to enter into contractual relationships beyond typical affiliate agreements agree to a $25,000 advance deposit, payable to Mr. Martinez or the corporation if such a corporation exists. The deposit must be paid by cashier's check, bank draft, or wire transfer in US funds, and is non-refundable. Payment must be received in full before we undertake any conversions. All revenues from the contract would be deducted against the deposit until you have earned back your $20,000. We make no guarantees that you will recover your costs.

Please understand that we are not a business site. We have a large volunteer staff but effectively only one primary Web designer with occasional backup. If you want to put your advertisement on any substantial number of Xenite.Org pages, you're going to have to ensure that our efforts are compensated. If you seriously want to advertise on Xenite.Org, we suggest you be creative and considerate (i.e., don't spam our forums and mailing lists), or get out the checkbook. If you want to buy Xenite.Org and its network of Web sites, we will consider offers starting at $125,000. To acquire the copyright for all original material posted on Xenite.Org by Michael Martinez, we will consider offers starting at $250,000 (the domain comes with it).

Original copyrighted material posted by other individuals is not for sale. In our use of the word "bidding", we do not imply or suggest that we will solicit counter offers should a single offer of purchase be tendered. We do not, however, guarantee that multiple offers will not be considered. In the event we receive multiple competitive offers for control of Xenite.Org and its network, we may retain legal counsel for the sake of securing proper advice and guidance on conducting a sale of network assets. We reserve the right to decline all offers tendered.

We are not affiliated with Xenite.Com or Xenite.Net. Generally speaking, however, when people say "XENITE", they ARE referring to XENITE.ORG and not to any other domain.

Michael Martinez, founder of Xenite.Org