Tag: URLS

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/07/23/the-100-unfortunate-urls-on-the-internet/'; Last month, we put together our own list of unfortunate URLs, culling six of the most ridiculously named sites on the Web. Highlights include therapistfinder.com (for finding therapists) and penisland.com (a site dedicated to writing instruments). Now there's an entire Web site dedicated to the idea. ...

Press pros call their worth into question by missing out on these five major Web address slip-ups. Take a look at each of these Web addresses with hilarious (or uncomfortable) second meanings: ...

Facebook, in what seems like a long overdue gesture, will finally roll out vanity URLs for its users this Saturday. After a semi-dramatic countdown, the social networking site will start letting members set user names, instead of random numbers, to show up in their pages' URLs. If you're a relative newcomer to Facebook, though, you should keep your shirt on, according to the Facebook Blog. In ...

It used to be that you could pretty much get any address on the Web for free (or a small administration fee), but those days are long over. Now, if a company wants the perfect Web address for a new site, they may well have to shell out quite a bit of money. While most domain names (aka Web addresses) are still relatively inexpensive, there are a few that are well out of the average surfer's ...