Buy Yor Town!
January 5th, 2007I read this morning about a new site called OnTheMap US, which will allow you to “claim” a town for $100. Only one person can claim a town and a page for that town will be assisgned with the claimer having full authority to put anything on that page. For example, here is a page for Centerport, NY, which is about 10 minutes from where I live.
How very odd and possibly brilliant. The Landrush starts in 5 days.
More from the press release:
“In an effort to keep the ratio of Claims to population at about 1 per every 20,000 people, U.S. zip codes are used to define towns. The cost to Claim a town is $100. 25% of the zip codes in the 32 largest U.S. cities are available immediately, while the rest will be reserved for auction on eBay, beginning in mid-January.”
“We envision a visitor experience that provides endlessly fascinating, firsthand, continually-updated insight into what people’s lives are like in towns across the U.S.,” said Joe Holihan, President of Manifest Destiny Media, LLC, publishers of OnTheMapUS. “Our Claim Owners will be people who want to share something with the world about themselves, their life… even their products or services, and have found an inexpensive, easy, and potentially lucrative way to do so.”