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The hostsite attribute can be used to enforce third party paid-links to pay for a certain percentage that is defined by the receiving party.
When your website allows third parties to create paid-links and earn money from your website, you can use the hostsite attribute to charge a percentage of their revenue. In this case, your website is the host site, since it hosts the paid-link.
For instance, if MySpace (Facebook, YouTube, Flickr or any other UGC website) allows MySpace Applications created by third parties to run on user pages and allows these applications to charge users with paid-links, MySpace could enforce a 15% commission policy:
<a href="photo.gif" receiver="alice@example.com" hostsite="15,myspace@myspace.com" price="US$ 0.50">pais-link</a>
The Access Filter software can be configured to request that all paid-links within MySpace have the hostsite attribute, according to the predetermined percentage.
The hostsite attribute can also be used by webhosting services offering an attractive service package to their customers. In exchange of the package, the webhosting service could retain a percentage of the revenue the hosted websites generate selling content to their users.
This is a whole new business model for webhosting services. This service package could include, for instance, some of the following items:
Include the percentage requested by your webhosting service in the hostsite attribute.
In the example below, the webhosting service gets 5%:
<a href="photo.gif" receiver="alice@example.com" hostsite="5,email@host.com" price="US$ 0.50">paid-link</a>
The Access Filter software can be configured later to enforce such payment in all paid-links of the websites hosted by the webhosting service.
The Access Filter software can be configured later to request all paid-links in the websites hosted to have the hostsite attribute according to the predefined percentage.
If the paid-link has a hostsite attribute, the percentage due to the host will be deducted first. The remaining amount will be split among the receivers indicated in the receiver attribute.