No, not my site, but this site. The man that is trying to raise money ala Million Dollar Homepage to buy a commercial during Superbowl XLI. Last year, a 30 second commercial for Superbowl XL cost between $2.5M and $2.6M according to CNN Money.
Now, there are a few ways that this can pan out, and I'll expound upon some of these according to my views and frankly, my imagination. Obviously, the love of this guy's life could leave him before then or something could happen and they break up. His love could also figure out who he is, but this guy has done some clever things to hide his tracks as well as not mentioning her name nor his name (I only did a cursory scan of the site, so names may have been dropped), but he does leave his initial, JP. Assuming these two stay together, these are some of the situations:
1) The guy doesn't get the money.
This is totally possible. Although I would not be surprised if he does get the money, it is a lot of money, but he may not have started early enough to actually pull this off. Who knows, he may get Slashdotted, Fark'd, or BoingBoing'd but he's already been MeFi'd. If his site stays up, he could easily pull in the money that he needs. If he doesn't, then he says in his FAQ that the money will be donated to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, TN which is honorable.
2) The guy gets the money but can't buy the ad
Also possible, although I don't know much about ad sales, so I can't talk with any certainty about this. He does address this in his FAQ too though and says that with enough public interest, the network will probably air it.
3) The guy gets the money and gets the ad
a) the girl says yes, everyone's happy
b) the girl says no, that would SUCK!!!!!!!
4) The guy gets more money than he needs
According to the FAQ, he'll use the excess money for the engagement ring, honeymoon, and give some to aforementioned Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. All's fine and good there, but I personally think that the engagement ring and honeymoon should be paid by him.
There are definitely some more possibilities including that this is a scam, it may be a girl posing as a guy to throw her boyfriend off, etc. but this guy does get kudos for being original. As of right now, he's already raised $61,931. You can help him along if you want.
One other thing that might be worth mentioning is that the reverse DNS according to Netcraft resolves to 911forpeace.com, which is registered to a Craig Tommola, but that is probably because the server is hosted by HostMySite.com, a division of LNH Inc. in Newark, Delaware. So, that's probably no help.
Oh yeah, or the site could get hacked or shut down, whatever. It'll be interesting to say the least.
Posted by yakuza at October 24, 2006 10:06 PM | TrackBack