Conan O'Brien sketch forces NBC to buy HornyManatee.com domain
Caroline McCarthy Former Staff writer, CNET News
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It's not something that a broadcast TV network does every day, for sure. After a sequence about football mascots on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" mentioned a fictional webcam site called "HornyManatee.com," NBC quickly snapped up the domain before pranksters could get to it.
They've actually put a site up there. It's pretty funny.