Unfortunate Domain Name Decisions

Some People Didn’t Think When Choosing their Domain Names

You may be amused by some of the domain names people have chosen. For some of them they discovered it too late and either went out of business or belatedly re-thought their decisions. But a surprising number of them are still alive under their amusing domains.

Here are some classics that aren’t there anymore.

• Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views:
  http://www.expertsexchange.com
• Need a therapist?
  http://www.therapistfinder.com
• New to Milan and you need electricity? Why not sign up on-line with Power-Gen?
  http://www.powergenitalia.com
• Looking for kids’ clothes? Try Children’s Wear
  http://www.childrenswear.com/
• There’s also the online training company Via Grafix
  http://www.viagrafix.com/
• A French arborist, Les Bocages
  lesbocages.com
• Top MP3 songs – MP3s Hits
  mp3shits.com
• TV personal advice celebrity Ben Dover
  bendover.com
• Language teachers
  teacherstalking.org
• A bedspread company in Los Angeles
  ladrape.com

And some others are still there.

• Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous:
  http://www.whorepresents.com
• Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island:
  http://www.penisland.net
• New to Milan and you need electricity? Why not sign up on-line with Power-Gen?
  http://www.powergenitalia.com  [No longer live]
• Need to know your computer’s IP address?? Try IP Anywhere
  http://www.ipanywhere.com/  now redirects to WhatIsMyIP.net
• Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website Go Tahoe
  http://www.gotahoe.com/  [Now redirects to gotahoenorth.com]
• Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church in Cumming, GA
  www.cummingfirst.com/  [I guess the ridicule got them to abandon this domain name]
• Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:
  http://www.speedofart.com/
• IT Management from Regency Technologies now redirects to a new domain name.
  itscrap.com now redirects to a new domain name.
• International Housing Ads had a website for housing in Las Vegas under the name of IHA Vegas. But now it redirects to a new domain.
  http://www.ihavegas.com/  [They seem to have abandoned this; it’s now for sale.]
• A bait & tackle shop that may just have done this on purpose
  masterbaitonline.com
• An emotional healing therapist wrote a book
  therapistinabox.com  [Now abandoned.]
• Educational astronomy website, not a kinky site
  analemma.org
• All about Winters, California
  wintersexpress.com
• Scrap metal recycling
  americanscrapmetal.nyc
• A toy consignment service
  kidsexchange.net  [They’ve wisely redirected this to a new domain name.]
• Travel website, not necessarily for masochists
  choosespain.com  [This seems to be abandoned now.]
• A cafe in Serbia
  bitefartcafe.rs

That’s probably more than any of us really need to know, but the moral of the story is — make sure your domain name can’t be read wrong.