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Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy

Posted by timothy on from the tragically-yes-I'm-single dept.

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."

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  1. peh. by apodyopsis · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  2. Don't tell me... by novalogic · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  3. Re:Which URL? by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    StayOffOfMyLawn.com

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  4. missed the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you missed the point. You were suppose to go to the URL to get a date NOT research the registration.

    1. Re:missed the point by Dekortage · · Score: 5, Funny

      This gives me an idea for a new set of yard signs: "Single? Bored? www.slashdot.org"

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    2. Re:missed the point by megamerican · · Score: 3, Funny

      These signs were a great way to break up with my girlfriend*. A few dozen Single? signs in her front yard gave her a pretty strong hint.

      *Girlfriend may or may not actually exist (this is /.)

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  5. Re:signs by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We should start a counter-campaign:

    Married?
    LincolnSwingers.com

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  6. It's disappointing to see. . . by smooth+wombat · · Score: 3, Funny

    the low percentage of signs advertising for asians.

    Mmmm, asian women. You can eat a lot because you never fill up!

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    1. Re:It's disappointing to see. . . by mschuyler · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ha ha. I used to live in Macon. I worked at a B.Dalton--Bookseller store out at the Macon Mall. The cops busted us and stole 500 copies of the "Joy of Sex" because it was 'pornographic.' Naturally, every cop in Macon wound up with a copy. There was even a trial. It wound up in a 'hung' jury. Oh, man, minimum wage was fun.

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  7. It's an interesting story... by Minwee · · Score: 3, Funny

    High churn rates mean new customers have low, volatile expected lifetime values. This has a negative impact on the equity value of each customer, making it difficult to justify the valuation multiples seen by membership-driven websites in other verticals.

    ...but an English translation might be more accessible.

    1. Re:It's an interesting story... by EricWright · · Score: 3, Funny

      So you don't make that much money per customer

      Dude, did you SEE how much they were charging?!?

    2. Re:It's an interesting story... by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 5, Funny

      So they work on the Scientology model?

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  8. Re:Who you gonna call? by Enry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ghostbusters.

    Duh.

  9. I always thought they were NSA and CIA messages by HomerJ · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:but do they work ? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    plentyoffish.com

    That sounds like the perfect site for me...people tell me I'm plenty offish all the time!

  11. Re:Guerrilla Marketing by eln · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  12. Re:Guerrilla Marketing by RobertB-DC · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...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.

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  13. Re:signs by billcopc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Naw, because some asshat lawyer will steal the idea:

    "Married ?
    LincolnDivorce.com"

    And then we'll have to kill them.

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  14. Re:Together by raehl · · Score: 5, Funny

    $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.

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  15. Re:How Much Did You Pay? by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 3, Funny

    $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.

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  16. Re:but do they work ? by bytta · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  17. Re:Together by Chapter80 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Women were charged significantly less- my wife bought in blocks of 6 instead of 36.

    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.