fyi. Buat yang punya bakat pemasaran... cukup ngarang satu adv. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Year2000.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Y2K ANNOUNCE: $10K Reward - Year2000.com goes up for Auction Year2000.com Announcement List, Special Mailing December 23, 1999 Year2000.com goes up for Auction on eBay As you may have noticed if you read the Digits column in this morning's Wall Street Journal, your hosts here at year2000.com have embarked on a bit of an experiment in online marketing. We've put the Year2000.com domain name up for auction on eBay. In a true Y2K countdown, the auction will end as the final seconds of 1999 draw to a close. We created the Year 2000 Information Center in 1995 for a single purpose--to create awareness of the Year 2000 computer problem and to get people to take the problem seriously. To the best of our ability we achieved that goal, and in the process accidentally created one of the most successful ventures in online publishing. Year2000.com has now served its purpose well and in the last year of the millennium it can undoubtedly be put to better use. So we are now hoping to find it a good home, and have a bit of fun in the process. One thing I want to make clear to this list is that, even if we are successful in selling the domain, we are NOT putting this mailing list or your e-mail address up for sale. Even if we find a buyer for the Year2000.com domain, we will simply move the current content at Year2000.com to a new location at pdejager.com, and continue reporting to you, first on the after effects of Y2K, and then over time on other issues of interest to the IT community, such as e-commerce. The auction for the year2000.com domain name can be found on eBay at: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=225003545 One question we've been asked a lot by the press in the last few days is "who would want to buy Year2000.com and why." We've listed a few reasons that we've come up with below. Now we wanted to ask for help from members of this list to come up with additional ideas... To spice things up a bit and motivate your best ideas, we're offering a reward. In return for e-mailing us your ideas, either serious or silly, as to whom should best buy Year2000.com, we are offering a $10,000 reward to the first person (whether a member of this list or not) that suggests someone that actually ends up buying the domain. Send your ideas to us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll compile the ideas and post some of the best ones. If no one suggests the eventual domain buyer but someone still buys the domain, we'll give the $10,000 reward out to whomever we decide submitted the most clever entry among those received. Here are some reasons for buying the domain that we've come up with... Probably one of the most compelling reasons someone would want to buy Year2000.com is that the site comes with approximately 25,000 links pointing to it, so it provides instant traffic for someone. It might otherwise take someone years to generate that kind of traffic and a lot more than $1,000,000 (it took us 5 years of constant work to get all those links in place). A buyer would also be able to get some good mileage and publicity out having the "web site of the year" for at least the next 12 months. It will, after all, be year 2000 for another 12 months past midnight December 31. It is only the computer bug that will stop being a big problem early next year. I'd think someone like M&M's might get some advertising mileage out of it (MM is roman numerals for 2000). There might be those that would find it of value to have year2000.com because it is the first year of the 2000's, and it will be the 2000's for another 1000 years. Finally, there are those that might find it of historical value. The role of the Internet on the rise and growth of the Year 2000 industry has been unique in the history of the Information Technology business sector. For the first time, the Internet played a central role as catalyst in facilitating the rapid growth of a new industry to respond to a very real and significant crisis. For several years, Year2000.com served as the primary central focal point for that industry. -- so perhaps Bill Gates or some other computer mogul will want to buy it... Any other ideas are welcome at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The clock is ticking... Best, --Cliff Cliff Kurtzman, Year2000.com Producer and Peter de Jager, Year2000.com Editorial Director/Chief Evangelist/Head Honcho The Year2000.com Partnership http://www.indolinux.com - Nikmati Layanan Personal INDOLINUX :: http://techscape.net/ - Webhosting: Dual T3 on Dual Pentium III 450Mhz Only US$1.95/month -> CGI SSL 5MB Unlimited Traffic & Mail FP2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- untuk berhenti kirim email ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] untuk melihat peraturan kirim email ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] arsip berada di http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
