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Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy
robertjmoore writes "Everywhere I go lately, I see these lawn signs that say "Single?" and then give a URL with my town's name in it. Being a huge business intelligence geek with too much time on my hands, I decided to track down who was behind them and wound up uncovering ten thousand domain names, a massively coordinated and well-funded guerilla marketing machine, and the $45 Million revenue business hiding behind it all. Hot off the presses, these are my findings."
yes, yes, yes, I'm sure you uncovered a conspiracy of epic proportions behind the dating sites, but this is /. and only one thing matters....
did you get a date?
why yes, I am new round here.. how did you know?
Even singles sites are lonely enough to pay for some action... I thought I was the only one willing to pay out $100 for head...
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StayOffOfMyLawn.com
Have gnu, will travel.
I think you missed the point. You were suppose to go to the URL to get a date NOT research the registration.
Ditto for the suburbs of DC. It's like road spam.
We should start a counter-campaign:
Married?
LincolnSwingers.com
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
the low percentage of signs advertising for asians.
Mmmm, asian women. You can eat a lot because you never fill up!
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ghostbusters.
Duh.
I thought secret agents about various towns would go to these websites and put in their "special" information. Then they could get secure messages back and forth. If someone else used them, they just got some boiler plate thing. I thought the whole thing was a vast government project. Like those CIA numbers stations.
I'm disappointed to find out it's nothing more than spam for a "dating" site. Really kills my faith in conspiracy theories.
Clearly, their marketing has invaded Slashdot.
You mad
I might be behind on my paleoanthropology, but were the Neanderthals big on lawn-sign marketing?
What?! I hadn't realized the human race had officially speciated by operating system!
I really thought I was the only one that got angry enough to actually yank the signs out of the ground. Thank you so much for that link! It's good to know I am not alone in my neurosis.
I usually just pull them up and leave them on the ground because I don't want to get my car trunk dirty.
I know what I will be catching up on tonight. Now if only we could destroy all the billboards too...
plentyoffish.com
That sounds like the perfect site for me...people tell me I'm plenty offish all the time!
why didnt he just fill out the form and see where he would be redirected to or wait for someone to contact him?
Because he's already on 3 other dating sites, and his wife is starting to get suspicious.
...or figuring out how to make the pelvic actuators on your girl robot work properly...
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Whether it's the grepping to find instances of an odd item in your logs
Guilty!
or statistical analysis to compare voting records by state to federal balance of payment figures
Guilty!
or figuring out how to make the pelvic actuators on your girl robot work properly
*GASP* Who told you?
*SLAMS DOOR*
When you're retelling a story like this it needs to get better each time.
So, the first reply should have stated the correct amount of $3100. However, by now, that number should be well in excess of $10,000.
Insanity: voting in the same two parties over and over again and expecting different results
>(In actuality, they often type "www.houstondating.com" as well, regardless if that's correct or not).
Yes, but they type this into google. So, if you can get your site to be ranked number 2, then you will get a lot of clicks. Because no one like to pick the one right off the top. You know, the store lights have been shining on it making it stale. Other people have touched it and crinkled the packaging.
How many more years will slashdot have an off-by-one error on your Score in your profile?
Naw, because some asshat lawyer will steal the idea:
"Married ?
LincolnDivorce.com"
And then we'll have to kill them.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
I usually reach right back in the google results in the hope of getting one with the freshest expiration date.
demi
$3600 is only 18 good nights out at the bar, so its relatively cheap in comparison.
There is something wrong with either where or how much you are drinking.
paintball
...for making cages for small animals.
I won't ask.
Uhh, so it's all good, right?
Requiem for the American Dream
In reality, you can find fulfillment any way you like, but typically people prefer to couple up.
But every so often I need to switch hands and then it just feels weird.
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
$3600. About $3100 of that was wasted, as I purchased a block of 36 introductions and only used 5.
Yes, most things you spend on toward a wedding are a ripoff, anyway. I bought two dozen oysters for our wedding night and at least three of them didn't work.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
I think she's worth the full $3600, plus the wasted dates with the 4 other women I met.
I'll give you $4000 for her.
Every time I think of someone from Slashdot on a date I imagine this:
...
I put on my robe and wizard hat
Do not meddle in the affairs of geeks for they are subtle and quick to anger
This is exactly why I signed up for the service posing as a woman. Cheaper.
Unfortunately there's no checkbox for the ladies to check "Seeking Man Posing as a woman to get a better deal", so I had to resort to posing as a Lesbian.
Wonder why I am still single.