You would be surprised at the number of webmasters that don’t spend quite enough time thinking about their domain choice. This lack of thought leads to some pretty misinterpreted domains.
Either the web masters don’t think carefully enough about their domain names, or they purposely do this for a laugh, but there are sure some weird domains out there. Most of these are honest mistakes that lead to serious misinterpretations by readers that had no background with the site. Remember, always look for possible flaws with your domain BEFORE you register it to avoid this.
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DicksOnWeb.com (Dickson Web)
This is an example of a purely honest mistake. Dickson Web is a website used for data loggers and chart recorders; however their domain name is misleading. As suspected, they have finally caught on to the words within the domain that give it its misleading message. They now only use this as a link to redirect to their new domain name.
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ChoosesPain.com (Choose Spain)
Choose Spain. This is a hotel and a realty site for Spain. Hopefully your vacation isn’t as painful as the domain. They do however have some pretty nice land for sale and hotels for rent there.
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ViagraFix.com (Via Grafix)
This has been around for a while. It was a rather innocent name until Viagra came out. They have “graphix” tutorial cd’s and a bunch of other items related to computer graphics. The company no longer uses this as their domain.
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TeacherStalk.com (Teachers Talk)
This is a community for teachers and students from across the US to talk about just about anything. It just turns out that by moving the “s” it turns into teacher stalk.
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WinterSexPress.com (Winter’s Express)
This is a small town’s local newspaper. They are called the “Winter Express”, but the domain can make it appear to be a different type of site. The paper is for Winters, California.
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NYCAnal.com (NY Canal)
This is a travel information website with links to all sorts of different activities to do on the canals of New York.
This is a general website mistake. If you were to start a business on the Cook Islands, you would end up with .co.ck at the end of your domain. Co is the standard for commercial domains, and .ck is the TLD for the Cook Islands, so either way you will end up with the .co.ck after any innocent sounding domain name.
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WhorePresents.com (Who Represents)
This is actually a database for contacting the lawyer and/or publicists of some of the biggest actors and actresses out there. Whether or not this actually puts you in contact with the people it claims is beside the point, still somehow, the domain fits for at least some of the people on the database.
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ExpertSexChange.com (Experts Exchange)
This is a site where Experts can exchange their ideas. It is actually for programmers to get help with their current projects, and yet it makes it sound like it’s advertising the best “sex change” company out there. Since then, for some reason, they’ve changed their domain.
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TheRapistFinder.com (Therapist Finder)
This is actually a database for you to find a therapist. I thought this was the best of them all, as even without the caps you would probably read it as it sounds. This site is actually pretty big and could really help you find the best therapists in your area.
Hopefully this list will make you think twice before registering your next domain name. If you’ve seen another strange domain name other than the ones here, please feel free to share them with me in the comments.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I get a lot of comments on my domain name (bittenandbound.com) from people who think it is a porn site (it’s not). When I started the site, it seemed that every celebrity related domain I could possibly think of had been taken, so I had to get creative. I explain where the name comes from on our “About” page.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Hi Jared -
I must say that your article had me laughing this morning. Very clever topic that you have written about. Overall, your creativity is impressive.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
April 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Jared, I love words. They can say so much more or less than intended. Quite interesting. Thanks for the laugh & message combined.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
All these names are hilarious. It makes me wonder, didn’t these people see the double meaning?
April 13th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Very funny, Jared. Where do you find them?
April 13th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Okay, this would seem funny, however your report is misleading as you intended to put capitalization in certain parts on the URL’s to give it more hype.
April 13th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Idiots with URL’s whats new?
April 13th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
there used to be a pen company with the URL PenIsland.com, but it’s gone now…
April 14th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Yeah another vote for penisland.net
April 14th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Just noticed this hit diggs front page. When writing this article, I had no expectations of getting more than 20 diggs. I didn’t submit this article so thanks to mississippilife for getting front page.
To address the comments you’ve been saying about penisland here is why I left it out. Checking digg comments and here over half the comments include this. That means you guys all have heard of it before. If I included it you guys would have simply been like I’ve heard this before, it’s old news.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Funny. Years ago when I worked as a Tech Support Bob, I actually talked to one of the guys behind Via Grafix and he was telling me about the deluge of emails he started getting from guys looking for the new “Viagra Fix” they’d heard about.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:30 am
You beat me to it Ven.
PenisLand.net
April 14th, 2008 at 12:31 am
What about SpeedoFart.com – that’s a fun one too.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:35 am
well the freedom of choice..what you can do just lol
bloggersmosaic.com
April 14th, 2008 at 12:35 am
I’ll take The Rapists for $500 Alex.
sorry, had to say it
April 14th, 2008 at 12:57 am
There used to be an office supplies company at PenIsland…or PenisLand if you change the emphasis.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:13 am
penisland.net > *ROFLMAO*
It gets even better when you actually visit the website. Their tag line is: “Your Pen Is Our Business”
April 14th, 2008 at 1:15 am
One more funny: anyad.rulez.org || AnyAd
April 14th, 2008 at 1:16 am
You forgot PenisLand.com AKA Pen Island
April 14th, 2008 at 1:16 am
newsexchange.com. found that one in an airport.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Hey, did anybody mention penisland.net? *sarcasm*
April 14th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Hey, did anybody mention penisland.net? *sarcasm*
April 14th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Yes! you cannot forget PenIsland
April 14th, 2008 at 1:45 am
no mention of ferrethandjobs.com???
April 14th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Don’t forget Microsoft’s exchange Team Blog, available at
mSexChangeTeam.com
April 14th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Another one is BabySitEase.com I frequently misread it as Babys I Tease.com. Its a real crappy site too.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:10 am
It seems funny that for a site that you come to, to read, a lot of people aren’t doing that.
Wait guys!! Don’t forget Penisland.net!!!111
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Oh and to the internetter: I didn’t see this article as misleading. I think the capitalization was completely appropriate. Sorry but even if it were put as viagrafix.com, The point is still there. =)
April 14th, 2008 at 4:14 am
My favorite: http://swissbit.ch
April 14th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Good post, Jared!
April 14th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Its pretty funny how many websites urls are like that.
this is great for a good laugh.
Great article!
April 14th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I see you’ve provided lots of people with lots of laughs. Good job.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Very funny article. Good to see you back in the grind.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Wow. Thats HILARIOUS.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
This would have been a lot better if the artificial capitalization had not added by the poster, allowing us to really get a sense of how the names are interpreted.
As is, it’s worthless.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Experts Exchange have a hyphen in their URL now.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
my favorite email address of all time was for one of our customer named Cris T____. She was christ@*****.net
April 16th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Hilarious! Got a nice laugh. Great topic Jared. Thanks.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
there is another website called PenisLand. (Pen Island) which sells custom made pens
April 18th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
wow! good to know! lol
April 18th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Wow. That’s creative thinking. All URLs relate to sex which according to one study occupies one’s (esp. men) mind.
April 19th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Now I’ll definitely look deeper into domain names to see how their names can be reinterpretted when emphasis is shifted! Thanks!
April 20th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
My Dixie Wrecked! I had a car that I called My Dixie and I had a wreck.
April 20th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
you missed out http://penIsland.net -=p
April 20th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
partSexPress
partsexpress.com sells speakers and audio equipment
April 21st, 2008 at 7:29 am
Another web name! Speedofart.com
April 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I’ll take The Rapists for $500 Mr Trebek.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:16 pm
No PenisLand.com? (Pen Island.com)
Thats the best one.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Web U P On . com
April 21st, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I’ll take Anal Bum Covers for $300 Alex!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Cheeya dat gud stuffz i no 1 relly kewl… no one say yet fo sho…
panislend.com HAHAH it so funy you go and it say u pen iz are bisness
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
That is why the dash is just so important for me when applying for new domains. Besides, it’s SEO friendly.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Thank you Jared for brightening my morning, very enjoyable piece xx
p.s. a brief word to the previous commenter….. I suggest you get your mother to wash out your mouth with soap… just a thought
take care .. Kay
April 25th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Brilliant!!!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Those made me laugh som! =]]
April 27th, 2008 at 2:30 am
BRILLIANT! Ive never thought about this before, really made me rethink nickpicks.com, think about it lol.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
LMAO
April 30th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Oh this was highly amusing. And some of the additional sites listed in the comments had me rolling. Great job.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Good article…like every1 has been saying ‘had me laughing’
April 30th, 2008 at 8:30 am
LoL and more with this article! Best of things to come!
April 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Great article and thanks for the laugh!
April 30th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
penisland.net
they sell pens NOT penises suprisingly
May 1st, 2008 at 4:17 am
really funney list
http://readerszone.com
May 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Here is one I found hilarious.
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http://TheRapistsHelp.org
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The Rapists Can Help = Therapists Can Help
Domain doesn’t exist at the moment and probably has been removed after discovering this hilarious blunder.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
This is very interesting and creative. I am sure there are more out there. We need a sequel!
May 5th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Penisland.com! or .net! They both exist I believe.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Brilliant
May 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Great article, these are funny.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Love it. Any kind of spoonerism – especially these unintentional ones are hilarious.
May 10th, 2008 at 7:54 am
These are hilarious! Fun read.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I was rather amused… But the only thing funnier than this article was the amount of “You forgot penisland.com!!!” posts. Honestly, to be on this website, I thought you had to be able to read…
June 12th, 2008 at 8:10 am
My favourite – mole station nursery (now mole river nursery for some reason)
http://www.molestationnursery.com
August 7th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Just “Stumbled Upon” this post – hilarious! My college newspaper, Student Life, still has a very unfortunate domain name:
http://www.studlife.com
August 21st, 2008 at 10:03 pm
You must be a very funny person! LOL
September 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
there is one in dallas
Dallas Museum of Art
address is dallasmuseumofart.com
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 am
I love this!
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:44 am
Very informative. Good piece.
December 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
how old do you have to be to join my space
May 19th, 2009 at 11:43 am
What’s your point????
November 18th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
If anything domain names like this may get your site more hits, lol
December 28th, 2009 at 5:39 am
I agree they are misleading, but i think it is all part of their strategy… cool and funny strategy in my opinion…