Līve Ambitions

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?