www.ilovewheeze.com
www.iloveseas.com
www.ilovelees.com
www.ilovesqueeze.com
www.ilovesprees.com
www.iloveescapees.com
www.iloveflees.com
www.ilovecreamcheese.com
www.ilovejeez.com
www.ilovecapris.com
www.ilovebeams.com
www.ilovebeets.com
www.ilovebeasts.com
www.ilovevees.com
www.ilovebeaks.com
www.iloveskis.com
www.ilovekeys.com
www.iloveknees.com
www.ilovegees.com
www.ilovecees.com
www.ilovehees.com
www.ilovebeeps.com
www.ilovesneeze.com
www.ilovetease.com
www.ilovefees.com
www.ilovenees.com
www.iloveease.com
www.iloveplease.com
www.ilovedisease.com
www.ilovebreeze.com
www.ilovetrapeze.com
I wonder how much it cost them to register all of those domains… Heh. Seems like a waste of time, but I guess from a PR perspective it garners some headlines.
So, are those actually from the big N? I thought that was still up in the air. And has Nintendo figured out the whole “Show me, don’t tell me. (Or make me read page after page of scans.)” thing with this one?
If they’re going to run their campaign in the shadow of Halo 2 they’ve lost before they’ve begun.
And here I thought Ninty lost already since the cube is the least owned platform. ;)
Is the XBox ahead of the Cube now? If so, not by much.
I doubt Nintendo is actually behind it, but if they are, some of those domain choices weren’t smart moves.
“ilovebeasts.com”, “ilovedisease.com”? Riiiiiiiiiight.
Too lazy to get the numbers, but in the US the Xbox is way ahead of the Cube. In fact the Xbox outsold the PS2 the past few months. Some claimed that this was because of a shortage of PS2s with the new smaller ones on the way, but it’s still impressive. Worldwide the Xbox and GCube might be pretty close, though. I’m not sure.
A) This is hardly their campaign. It’s pretty funny, though.
B) I don’t think Nintendo expects to “win” in terms of units sold, anyway.
Wow, that’s lame on an epic scale.
If they were actually from Nintendo, they would have been bright enough to, you know, link somewhere.
In any case someone with a little ambition can probably track down where the IP address goes and what other servers are near it, and maybe who the official registrar of those domains is. (Lucky for me I’m not very ambitious.)
Domain Name: ILOVECREAMCHEESE.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.tucows.com
Name Server: NS2.2ADVANCED.COM
Name Server: NS1.2ADVANCED.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 21-oct-2004
Creation Date: 21-oct-2004
Expiration Date: 21-oct-2005
They all match. As you can see, not much info.
That won’t tell you much. You wouldn’t be able to track ilovebees to Microsoft because they paid another company to do it for them, which is proably what Nintendo did. It would have to be Nintendo, though. I know there are some dedicated fans out there, but who’s registering 50 domains just for a joke about Halo’s web game?
Well it’s 32 domains times $15 (which is Tucows’ price… not sure why they wouldn’t go with a cheaper registrar), which is $480 for all of them. On fairly well-off fan could have done it, or a group of five or ten or fifteen fans, with degrading degrees of well-off-ness.
Actually, it disproved my theory, since the domain owner is apparently a specialist in bizzare marketing campaigns. sigh Wasn’t that Channel 51 thing a copycat viral marketing effort for MP2?
A) This is hardly their campaign. It’s pretty funny, though.
B) I don’t think Nintendo expects to “win” in terms of units sold, anyway.[/quote]
A) It’s jokey and cute, which is exactly what N should be running from with a game like this.
B) How does Nintendo win? Does anybody know anymore?
Nintendo has done stuff like that before. They did it for Perfect Dark. So not really “copycat”. Channel 51 isn’t as deep as ilovebees, though. I think bees might be the biggest ARG yet.
Metroid Prime 2 is going to be awesome.
On that list, I love:
Capris
Breeze
Skis
Beets
Beasts
Trapeze
But I also love bees.
They win by having the most popular and highest selling system (GBA). Also by being profitable.
They win by having the most popular and highest selling system (GBA). Also by being profitable.[/quote]
It’s pretty clear to me that Nintendo is going to be a portable only company in a few years. And more power to them. I think it’s a good market for them. They’ve always been a cartridge business.