This is the weirdest, yet interesting offer I’ve ever seen by an authority website. Techdirt.com is willing to shut up for 1 year for $100,000,000. I wonder if this means that they’ll shut down their website for an entire year, or if they’ll simply stop publishing new articles for a year. I’m assuming an offer like this is probably targeted towards it’s competitors. However, that is not chump change by any standards. For an amount like that, you could buy a few good established websites. I’m surprised by how much they are asking for, and I doubt that they’ll get any serious offers.
Founded in 1997, Techdirt.com is one of the most popular sites for technology news and commentary. Techdirt has some impressive stats: 850,000 RSS subscribers, 35,000+ posts, 250,000+ comments and rated Technorati 100.
Do you think anyone is crazy enough to take this offer?