Unfortunately named websites

As Jack Chick's jolly devil would say, "Haw Haw Haw!"

UPDATE: CSMcDonald commented: "Unfortunately it looks like Cumming (town in Georgia north of Atlanta) has changed their domain name - cummingfirst.com now goes to a site that is definitely not the church. The church is now at http://www.cfumcga.com/"

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Anonymous

A car dealership near us has the address ‘oneillauto.com’. Names with apostrophes and URLs sadly don’t mix.
Atvaark

There’s a music venue in Paris called Le Baiser SalÃ© (the salty kiss). Their domain name is lebaisersale.com, which, without the acute accent, means ‘the dirty kiss’ (le baiser sale).
- Anonymous
  
  baiser doesn’t only mean “kiss”, that it did mean several generations ago, in modern slang usage it means “fuck” (and i learned that the hard way 25 years ago, with my innocent school french…).
  so i’m pretty sure they chose that name carefully, for the double entendre…
Anonymous

I’m in Brazil where car license plates have three letters followed by numbers…

I’ve seen BNS, and lots of others… but DUI is my alltime fave.
Brother Phil

Sometimes you don’t even need a website.

To quote Wikipedia, about my hometown:

nevertheless ‘uphill’ residential property continues to fetch a premium, and is almost invariably referred to as such in literature emanating from local estate agents. Membership of noted uphill organisations such as… the Lincoln Uphill Gardeners’ Club… is seen as a mark of local success, and much prized.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_England)
[fnarr fnarr, etc.]
Anonymous

http://www.omfg.com/

http://www.doubleomfg.com/
Anonymous

There is a realtor in town named Kathy Sass. About a year ago she started putting her url on her yard signs.

http://www.KATHYSASS.com

I still laugh everytime I see one
Micah

The first time I saw HostAble.com, I thought it was HoStable.com.
Anonymous

The issue predates URLs. There’s a town in Massachusetts called Cummington. A mineral was discovered there.
Anonymous

best ive found: Halfpricedrapes.com (Half Price Drapes). Good stuff tho, i ordered from them.
Ginaphur

2 local companies – http://www.cmykinksupply.com/ (CMYK Ink Supply) and http://www.cvillepedo.com/ (Charlottesville Pediatric Dentist)
Anonymous

This is what hyphens in the domain names are for, people! whorepresents.com, please meet who-represents.com and a 301 redirect.
Capissen

I lived and worked in Cumming, Georgia. I had some of the most proper and straight-laced people I’d ever met crack up when giving out my address. I wish I could find the old promotional video where they did short spots with several people, young and old, from different walks of life, and they each said “I’m a teacher; I’m Cumming!” or “I’m an entrepreneur; I’m Cumming!”
Anonymous

Kittentacles.com
Beelzebuddy

You’re now reading these in the voice of Darell Hammond playing Sean Connery.
Anonymous

therapistfinder.com has been changed to counselingcalifornia.com the old link will now redirect you there.
Anonymous

A local nursing home called “Citizen’s Care Center” registered the domain name citizenscarecenter.com
Until they realized that most people read it as CitizenScareCenter
Not someplace you’d take grandma…
legionabstract

The place where we take our car to get fixed has a similarly unfortunate URL. It’s called “Jim’s Hi Tech Auto Repair”. I trust you see the problem.
Anonymous

The Microsoft Exchange Team blog is http://msexchangeteam.com
burritoflats

These are fun. As a word man myself, I find it odd and amusing that people neglect to examine their word, title or text choices more carefully. Except for some jpegs and a few videos, words are all we’ve got to specifically express ourselves here on the internet. Now I’m off to Penisland to buy me a pen – or maybe a new penis!
- cmdtacos
  
  I thought the same thing yesterday when at the grocery store I saw a large chocolate bunny called Mr. Solid. I can’t imagine why that would be the best name.
  - burritoflats
    
    “I saw a large chocolate bunny called Mr. Solid”
    
    If I’m not mistaken, Ron Jeremy and Marilyn Chambers starred in a low-budget XXX film called “Mr Solid” – it was released around 1978. *Mr Solid* would also be a great name for a workout gym or for a place that sells reproductions of Academy Awards golden statuettes.
Anonymous

RIM’s HR site is rim.jobs
(The company that makes Blackberries)
CSMcDonald

Unfortunately it looks like Cumming (town in Georgia north of Atlanta) has changed their domain name – cummingfirst.com now goes to a site that is definitely not the church.

The church is now at http://www.cfumcga.com/
CastanhasDoPara

While not strictly the same type of oops this reminds me of a story. A friend of mine worked at a copy shop and internet cafe about ten years ago and this little old lady walked in and asked how to set up an email account. My buddy told her to go to hotmail.com and follow the directions on the screen. About five minutes later she stormed up to the counter and yelled at him for sending her to a porn site and then left. We both scratched our head for a second and then the realization of what she had typed into the address bar hit us. Oops. Still cracks me up to this day.
Anonymous

Me and my friends had some fun at this site’s expense a few years back.

http://www.halfpricedrapes.com/

http://i54.tinypic.com/m91rsz.jpg
Anonymous

They missed my favorite, http://powergenitalia.com/ or PowerGenItalia – an Italian power generation company
DavidPFarrell

Although not naughty, I get a kick out of seeing the Fathom Events ad at the movie theater.

Without caps or hyphens, I can’t help but read it as FatHomeVents.com
Anonymous

That last one reminded me of the, no abandoned, Girl Scouts of America motto: Where Girls Come First.
Anonymous

One of my favorites is the Ferreth and jobs site. Which of course is http://www.ferrethandjobs.com
ChibiR

Experts Exchange moved to http://www.experts-exchange.com/ to avoid this.
- Anonymous
  
  “Experts Exchange moved to …”
  
  But given the content of their site, “Expert Sex-Change” would be far less unpleasant.
  
  Especially as the so-called “experts” are people who are too thick to scroll to the bottom of the page after clicking the link from Google, and instead opt to pay for a subscription!
Amsterdaam

WARNING: DO NOT ACTUALLY VISIT THE SITES. Out of the 2 that I have checked, I have been thrown into an endless ad loop that tried to pass me some spyware and another that was already mentioned above. This list is old.
- JayConverse
  
  @Amsterdaam – You need to browse with Firefox and Noscript, then those domain hoarders are a non-issue.
dogden

Mole Station Nursery has migrated to a new domain name : molerivernursery. Here is their new “services” page, for anyone interested: http://www.molerivernursery.com/HTML/molestation_services.htm
- Anonymous
  
  Mole Station Nursery has migrated to a new domain name : molerivernursery. Here is their new “services” page, for anyone interested: http://www.molerivernursery.com/HTML/molestation_services.htm
  
  Oh my…
  They fixed the domain then used THAT .htm filename? That HAS to be intentional. ;)
KurtMac

Once made a website for a client with the business name of Events Exposition who insisted on getting a domain without hyphens.
MrScience

Reminds me of an internal website at work I stumbled across during the early years. Apparently a division in Asia was titled “Ten Doors User Education and Experience.” A common practice in the company was to abbreviate the UEaE to EX (Education and eXperience).

This led to someone overseas creating… http://tendoorsex

It was up for quite a while. :)
slipperyskip

A website that recently wrote an article about my work…

http://www.fartonice.com (Far Too Nice)

I guess fartoonice.com was taken.
Anonymous

Don’t forget the thin layer chromatography compay Analtech (analysis technology)
- Amsterdaam
  
  That’s not very different than my Analysis of Function class back in high school (Anal Funk)
Anonymous

David St. Hubbins directed me here
WeightedCompanionCube

Years ago Powergen’s Italian arm could be found at http://www.powergenitalia.com

Powergen is now E.ON UK, which… isn’t funny at all.
Anonymous

My favorite has got to be the Chicago based company Data Based Ads.

aka Database Dads

databasedads.com

I don’t know why that kills me, but it kills me.

One year I sent them a Father’s Day card.
Zhiva

What, no one linked to tvtropes yet?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheProblemWithPenIsland
TheCrawNotTheCraw

I had a client whose URL was 35+ characters.

He absolutely wouldn’t use anything else.

As Sartre might have said, Hell is working for idiots.
- mccrum
  
  I’m always amazed by people who have difficult names to spell (an extra N or hidden E) who insist on using their name as their site, requiring them to always spell it out when giving it to someone. “That’s Steeve with two e’s…”
  - MrScience
    
    Technically three… :)
  - TheCrawNotTheCraw
    
    Or they try to make it “easy” on the other person:
    
    “That’s Green, like the color. Spelled ‘Greeeeeeenne’”
  - Anonymous
    
    Or 3..
sleepy_e

Tobias FÃ¼nke: No, no, it’s pronounced a-nal-ra-pist.
Buster: It wasn’t really the pronunciation that bothered me.
Anonymous

This post + comments = milk on keyboard.
Anonymous

At one point I saw a billboard for Go Red For Women that contained the URL goredwomen.org

Not sure if it was an actual bad URL, or an error on the billboard, but still…
Brainspore

Pen Island was clearly intended a joke so I’m not sure it really counts as “unfortunately named.”
Anonymous

There’s an animator named Michael Sporn, and he has a site at http://www.michaelspornanimation.com. And…yeah. While the site is SFW and actually quite a good resource for animation and related artwork, I certainly felt awkward viewing the site at work in case the URL was flagged. (I promise this is a legitimate site, though.)
Anonymous

I like mikehuntscars.com.au
yumbo_scrumbo

This BB post is like a lame forward from a lame friend. Almost none of these are real sites:

expertsexchange.com — a filler / nothing site up for sale.
penisland.com — sex site
molestationnursery.com — does not exist
therapistfinder.com — forwards to a real site with a real domain
cummingfirst.com — not a church site – all about cumming first

Lame, BB. Way lame. You’re like my crappy friend forwarding me total crap.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  You’re like my crappy friend forwarding me total crap.
  
  Better that than the guy whom everybody always moves away from at the party.
- mark zero
  
  It’s penisland.net, of course, not .com.
  
  And yes, Pen Island is a joke. Consider the following text from their site:
  
  “Whether you’re looking for a long and skinny pen, a thick pen, a fountain pen that squirts ink, or even a black pen, we have just the one for you.”
- entheo
  
  Mole Station Native Nursery up in NSW (Australia) changed from molestationnursery.com to molerivernursery.com quite a while ago, so somebody should have been checking those links.
  Wikipedia lists it and many others
  https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Slurl
  such as ilovebigals.com (for Big Al’s bowling alley)
Jorpho

TVTropes has an article for this kind of thing, of course – look for it under “The Problem With Pen Island”, if you dare.

It’s not in the same category, but the one I miss is the ornithological society that once boldly registered itself at nice-tits.net, or some variant thereof.
Max

This one is probably deliberate, but still amusing to people like me, with a mental age of 13, that still giggle at words like boobs. Teehee.
http://www.beaverdivers.com/
Is actually a diving school. I thought they were based in Beaver Creek in Colorado but their website now shows them in Vail.
Nice seascape backdrop on the site, if a bit slow to load.