Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy 324
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."
peh. (Score:5, Funny)
did you get a date?
why yes, I am new round here.. how did you know?
Don't tell me... (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...
Re:Which URL? (Score:4, Funny)
missed the point (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.
Re:signs (Score:3, Funny)
Ditto for the suburbs of DC. It's like road spam.
Re:signs (Score:5, Funny)
We should start a counter-campaign:
Married?
LincolnSwingers.com
It's disappointing to see. . . (Score:4, Funny)
the low percentage of signs advertising for asians.
Mmmm, asian women. You can eat a lot because you never fill up!
It's an interesting story... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:missed the point (Score:5, Funny)
This gives me an idea for a new set of yard signs: "Single? Bored? www.slashdot.org"
Re:Who you gonna call? (Score:4, Funny)
Ghostbusters.
Duh.
I always thought they were NSA and CIA messages (Score:4, 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.
Re:Together (Score:3, Funny)
Re:BTW, those signs are illegal (Score:2, Funny)
I might be behind on my paleoanthropology, but were the Neanderthals big on lawn-sign marketing?
Re:Slow News Day? (Score:2, Funny)
What?! I hadn't realized the human race had officially speciated by operating system!
Re:It's an interesting story... (Score:4, Funny)
So you don't make that much money per customer
Dude, did you SEE how much they were charging?!?
Re:BTW, those signs are illegal (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Re:It's an interesting story... (Score:5, Funny)
So they work on the Scientology model?
Re:but do they work ? (Score:5, Funny)
plentyoffish.com
That sounds like the perfect site for me...people tell me I'm plenty offish all the time!
Re:Guerrilla Marketing (Score:4, 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.
Re:Guerrilla Marketing (Score:5, 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.
Re:Guerrilla Marketing (Score:3, Funny)
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*
Re:but do they work ? (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Together (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:signs (Score:5, Funny)
Naw, because some asshat lawyer will steal the idea:
"Married ?
LincolnDivorce.com"
And then we'll have to kill them.
Re:missed the point (Score:4, 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 /.)
Re:Together (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Together (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.
Re:Together (Score:2, Funny)
...for making cages for small animals.
I won't ask.
Re:signs (Score:2, Funny)
Uhh, so it's all good, right?
Re:The "from the..." Department (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:It's disappointing to see. . . (Score:4, 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.
Re:How Much Did You Pay? (Score:4, 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.
Re:but do they work ? (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.
Re:but do they work ? (Score:3, Funny)
I put on my robe and wizard hat
Re:Together (Score:5, Funny)
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.