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Hmmm, I thought the TV networks had a policy of buying domain names mentioned on the air. Didn't NBC have to buy a bunch of unregistered domains that Conan ment
by ronnoch 16y ago
Hmmm, I thought the TV networks had a policy of buying domain names mentioned on the air. Didn't NBC have to buy a bunch of unregistered domains that Conan mentioned a few years back?
- gilgad13 16y agoI thought they were required to do this. Thus all the "How I Met Your Mother" websites. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother#Websites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother#Websites)
- GFischer 16y agoI remember the HornyManatee.com thing :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Late_Night_with_Conan_O%27Brien_sketches#Horny_Manatee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Late_Night_with_Conan_O... "Conan, in an ad-libbed statement, mentioned that the character appeared on the, at the time fictitious, web site "HornyManatee.com". The next night, Conan told viewers that if he mentions a web site which doesn't exist the NBC corporate policy is to buy the domain name lest someone else use it and potentially make NBC liable for the site's content. Conan said Late Night decided to use the domain name to create an actual web site, giving it the appearance of a fake porn site. "