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Good Names, Bad Names

 Colin Pape writes: 

“”Hey Frank!

Had this link delivered to my inbox via my Media Post subscription…

http://www.goodurlbadurl.com/

The owner of the site takes photos of domains he comes across in the offline world and posts them along with a good URL/bad URL rating… Great idea!

You can view the newsletter here: http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=71646
(subscription required)

It contains lots of great information on the project and advice on domains from the author (an SEO guy)…

Enjoy!

Colin”"

***FS*** Enjoy it “I did” Colin!  Sites like this make me feel warm and fuzzy about the domain business..  I’m obviously not the only geek passionate about naming..  This guy is..  You clearly care.. It’s a great community. Thanks for sending.

This entry was posted by frankschilling on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 12:16 AM and is filed under Domain Names (Domains), Friends and Family. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Comments


  1. Adam says:
    November 30, 2007 at 5:08 AM

    LOL looks like someone is reading that site carefully. since visitillinoislottery.com is now registered and same person has bought gooddomainbaddomain.com

  2. Andrew Johnson says:
    November 30, 2007 at 8:47 AM

    I remember the good old days when people would verbally spell out the http:// preceding every domain name. We’ve come a long way, but there is still a ways to go.

  3. Sai says:
    November 30, 2007 at 2:10 PM

    Hi Frank,

    I agree, I am with you.

    I get attracted when someone puts their url on the billboard etc..:-)

    Here is my new name today:

    How about ‘BlackFriday2.com’ for those who missed on ‘deals’ during Thanksgiving?

    Here is the idea:

    I thought there is not much left to innovate in this area. So, why can’t we give a ’second chance’ after all, to people who have genuinly missed out or couldn’t buy enough or even for those who didn’t have enough cash ready to buy etc..?

    When 70% (or so) online shopping happens in the last 30 days, even if we can attract 0.01% of the crowd that is seriously looking for ‘deals’ before Christmas, it can be a success imo. All it needs is a good PR and a cool site.

    Retailers will jump in anyway? They too want a ’second chance’ after all!..imo.

    LOL. and it comes with CyberMonday2.com too. :-)

    thanks,

  4. Edwin Sherman says:
    December 1, 2007 at 9:04 PM

    Glad to see I’m not the only person who does this :) I just sent the author one of my pics taken in NYC Chinatown last month. Thanks for posting