Domain Name Faux Paus
July 17, 2006 7:07 AM Subscribe
What were they thinking? The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs. I had a feeling that MeFites might have some others to add to this list. Some non-YouTube levity for a Monday.
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These are great, but this just got posted here recently. I am too lazy though to find the link.
posted by ORthey at 7:10 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by ORthey at 7:10 AM on July 17, 2006
My local theater chain has the url CA theaters dot com which when you look at it, you can't help but read it as catheters.com even though there is an extra A.
posted by mathowie at 7:16 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by mathowie at 7:16 AM on July 17, 2006
I could find worse on eBay.
posted by Smart Dalek at 7:17 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by Smart Dalek at 7:17 AM on July 17, 2006
Older than time.
posted by bob sarabia at 7:18 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by bob sarabia at 7:18 AM on July 17, 2006
I would imagine that the net spreads even wider if you consider how other TLDs are used (like the intentional del.icio.us). Particularly unfortunate might be those using the Cook Islands' 2nd level Domain: "co.ck". Apparently suckmy.co.ck is still available!
posted by spock at 7:24 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by spock at 7:24 AM on July 17, 2006
I hadn't seen it. It made me laugh.
posted by Pallas Athena at 7:28 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by Pallas Athena at 7:28 AM on July 17, 2006
At least one of them is false. Powergenitalia.com is not owned by Powergen.
posted by Plutor at 7:28 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by Plutor at 7:28 AM on July 17, 2006
This seems the perfect place to rehash the old story about Scunthorpe's email filtering software that filtered out all the email because it thought the town name contained a naughty word.
posted by talitha_kumi at 7:28 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by talitha_kumi at 7:28 AM on July 17, 2006
It's a shame that Pen Island appears to be a hoax. I'd buy pens from them just because of that name.
posted by kafziel at 7:37 AM on July 17, 2006
posted by kafziel at 7:37 AM on July 17, 2006
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