In celebration of the 25th birthday of the first domain name ever purchased (symbolics.com), we decided to go back and look at all the funny (and horrible) web domains we’ve seen over the years.
Just a gentle reminder to make sure your domain name conveys what you want it to!
Here’s the 43 most notorious we found (we actually had 50 - but our mothers read this blog):
- penisland.net - Pen Island
- sydneytherapist.com - Sydney Therapist
- mammotherection.com - Construction Company
- kidsexchange.net - Kids Exchange
- bigalsonline.com - Big Als Online
- webone.com.au - Web One
- choosespain.com - Choose Spain
- bendover.com - Ben Dover
- bitefartcafe.rs - Bitef Art Cafe
- partnerstalking.com.au - Partners Talking
- whorepresents.com - Who Represents
- expertsexchange.com - Experts Exchange
- nobraces.com.au - No Braces
- wintersexpress.com - Winters Express
- gotahoe.com - Go Tahoe
- therapistfinder.com - Therapist Finder
- powergenitalia.com - Power Gen Italia
- molestationnursery.com - Mole Station Nursery
- ipanywhere.com - Internet Protocol Anywhere
- speedofart.com - Speed of Art
- dicksonweb.com - Dickson Web
- viagrafix.com - Via Grafix (renamed to Learn2)
- nycanal.com - New York Canal Region
- mofo.com - Morrison & Foerster, LLC
- michaeljacksonsthisisitmoviemerchandise.com - really?
- dicksonweb.com - Dickson’s Temperature Instruments
- teacherstalk.com - Teachers Talk
- auctionshit.com - Auctions Hit
- butthatsnotall.co.nz - But That’s Not All
- childrenswear.co.uk - Childrens Wear
- ihavegas.com - IHA Vegas Holiday Rentals
- machome.com - Mac Home
- oddsextractor.com - Odds Extractor
- alterscrap.com - Alter Scrap
- ladrape.co.uk - La Drape
- llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com - an actual Welsh town
- gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com - a spinoff of the famous search engine
- 1hourscrap.com - Rapid scrapbook making
- swissbit.ch - Germany-based Swissbit
- 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com - Pi
- pedo.org - An actual dentist organization
Have you seen a URL that should be on this list? Let us know on Twitter!
January 7th, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Here’s one -
ultimatesteelerection.com - a construction company out of Idaho
February 22nd, 2011 at 5:49 pm
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March 29th, 2011 at 9:43 am
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June 10th, 2011 at 6:43 am
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July 4th, 2011 at 5:31 am
Fun lol… is mofo really that bad. I actually considered it for my business. That’s what brought me to this page !
September 1st, 2011 at 3:04 am
builderscrap.com - now renamed it seems
April 28th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Interesting. Never really heard of penny auctions. I’ll have to check them out
June 22nd, 2012 at 8:30 pm
The worst domain name I know of is stinky-butt.com (and it’s the worst website to!)
November 23rd, 2012 at 2:45 am
You might want to check some of the sites!
I suspect http://www.bendover.com is deliberate… since that’s the pseudonym of a porn actor….
January 30th, 2013 at 7:51 am
Funny. The names are so funny. so before going to buy a website, we have think about the meaning of the URL. Nice post.
February 28th, 2013 at 6:51 pm
heres one ferrethandjobs.com ferreth and jobs