Tag based dating site for geeks Consumating is to shut March 15, according to a notice posted to the Consumating forums.

Consumating was acquired by CNet in December 2005 and was later relaunched in June 2006. The sites traffic remained strong in 2006 then fell away in 2007 according to Alexa (the site was too small to register on comScore). The site currently ranks at 149,238.

The code for Consumating went open source in March 2007 and is available as “clonesumating” on Google Code here for those who think they might be able to make a better go of the concept.

Consumating joins the TechCrunch Deadpool.

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