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Author: Steve Jenkins
20th May 2010

Exclusive offer: Slurls – the world’s worst named websites

Web Designer has teamed up with the publishers of Slurls – They called their website WHAT?

slurlsWeb Designer has teamed up with the publishers of Slurls – They called their website WHAT?? book to bring readers and visitors an exclusive offer. Readers will be able to get the book, with free P&P, at the reduced price of just £7.

Slurls is a book by self-employed computer programmer Andy Geldman that celebrates the joy of awful URLs. Oldmanshaven.com and ipwine.com are just a couple to note. Andy says, “With over a hundred million websites already registered it’s extremely unlikely that a business will get their first choice of address. In fact, they’ll be lucky to get their second, third or even hundredth choice. There have always been unintentionally funny names, but the internet takes it to a whole new level. It’s all because you can’t have a space in your URL. A business called IT Scrap is fine in the real world but not so great online with itscrap.com!”

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    4 Comments »

    • webdesigner said:

      don’t know… there are so reviews of such names dome by blogers… nah, best things are free :) and this isn’t a Den Brown

      p.s. but if that would be a book with good jokes about a person who makes money online (even selling strange domains) – i would go for it 100%

    • webdesigner said:

      (reviewed) don’t know… there are so many reviews on such domain names done by blogers… nah, the best things are free and this isn’t a book of Dan Brown

      p.s. but if that was a book with good jokes about a person who makes money online (even selling strange domains) – i would go for it 100%

    • Mark Sidhu said:

      All right, that’s a good start but i’ll have to explore that a little bit more. Will let you know what more i’ve found.

    • Abel Ponte said:

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