Super Bowl Porn Postmortem
Posted By Jeff on February 3, 2009
This post is a salute to the enterprising fellow in Tucson, Ariz., whose first act, upon seeing a wagging penis on his television instead of the Super Bowl building towards its thrilling climax, was to register comcastsuperbowlporn.com and to get that video online. It is that kind of gumption, that level of entrepreneurship, that will lead us out of the recession.
Perhaps.
I e-mailed the guy and he graciously shared the traffic statistics for his new site. 178,000 visits from 156 countries, not counting that the site was down for a few hours and a lot of people probably tried to get to it and couldn’t.
What’s that worth? To the guy who bought the domain — who didn’t disclose his name, and I don’t see a point in outing him — it hasn’t been worth a cent, yet. His initial idea was to auction off the domain quickly but that has not worked out:
Honestly I got a bunch of bogus bids, which is why I ended it. I had people bidding $1,000,000 from other countries — which obviously wasn’t legit.
Obviously. So he’s looking for donations on the site, to keep it open; and he’s trying to sell advertising. He offered me an ad for the site, 30 days for $200 … and it would probably be worth it, I reckon, except that intotemptation.net doesn’t produce any revenue, either.
Odds are, at this point, that yesterday will be the biggest day comcastsuperbowlporn.com ever has and that traffic will drop off, probably quickly. But it won’t go to nothing — not overnight, probably not for a long time. One of the major adult sites probably ought to jump on it. The competition for eyeballs looking for porn is fierce.
Update 2/6: FreedomTube.org, which looks a lot like xtube or redtube or porntube or any of the other hardcore free XXX sites, is the guy’s sponsor. I really think he must have made out OK. I bet Comcast is fucking THRILLED that www.comcastsuperbowlporn.com will be a dick up their ass forever. If you type Comcast Super Bowl into Google — don’t even bother with typing the word “porn” — you get Comcast porn news.
Comcast is blaming the porn interlude on an “isolated malicious act” and giving out $10 credits to customers claiming they viewed the clip. Presumably you have to have seen it on TV, though who knows? I have Comcast here in MA; I’ve seen the clip. Am I collateral damage?
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