Hey, the only change I want for talker.com is from a comercial site on talkers to an informative site on talkers! ;-)
Shawn Honnick
· 2 years ago
If mashable had no "e" at the end, I would never read it. Yeah...
Ali
· 2 years ago
Or worse if they had an "r" instead like mashablr.com - yeech!
Jessica Costa
· 2 years ago
You spelled something wrong under the tumblr/tumbler section- shaterproof has two ts- shatterproof.
jason
· 2 years ago
the idiots who own flicker "supposedly" turned down $600,000.
if thats true theyre morons.
RBA
· 2 years ago
Loved it. You should do more of these!! There's got to be a ton!
And while not in the "correctly spelled words" topic, the use of one domain that puzzles me is zune.com. A 404 on a page that I'm sure it's getting tons of hits a day. I mean, if we think that people who park domain names with affiliated links could do much better, how about that one??
ANP
· 2 years ago
Great post. Thanks for taking the time to grab all those screen shots. really made the article come alive.
Eric
· 2 years ago
My last name is Eckl. It never had the "e" where you would expect it. That makes me the original Web 2.0 man.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
My VC friend would like to fund your last name to the tune of $50 million.
smorty71
· 2 years ago
Thanks for mentioning Profilactic. It's nice to be included in the same article with Flickr, digg, reddit and Tumblr.
Manipulating the spelling of domains seems to be the natural evolution of the net. With something like 95,000,000 domains already registered and registrars like GoDaddy.com aggressively marketing domain name flipping, it's no wonder startups are dropping vowels and adding consonants.
This is probably just the start of crazier things to come. Once every "single word" misspelling is registered, people will likely be forced to start misspelling "two word" combinations. Can you image...diggThatt.com...noww that suckks.
subcorpus
· 2 years ago
good article ... guess we'll have to do without the e's for a while ... hehe
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· 2 years ago
I personally hate it when these web 2.0 companies purposefully misspell words. It makes my blood boil. Grammar is important to me and when I see companies follow the bandwagon and conform to this weird naming standard I just want to cry. T_T
Yep... that pretty much sums my thoughts up. =/
flappy
· 2 years ago
zoomr / zooomr - zoomer \ zooomer
What is Web 2.0?
· 2 years ago
Thnk Yu!
I also agree that the letter dropping is getting ridiculous, but what choice do webmasters have? Going with a TLD other than .com in order to correctly spell a word won't do- anything that's not a .com or .org looks like a spam or fishing site.
James Gunn
· 5 months ago
I just saw new page on Flicker.com!
"Flicker is currently performing maintenance on our hosting environment. Please check back soon."
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if thats true theyre morons.
And while not in the "correctly spelled words" topic, the use of one domain that puzzles me is zune.com. A 404 on a page that I'm sure it's getting tons of hits a day. I mean, if we think that people who park domain names with affiliated links could do much better, how about that one??
How about Gruvr.com?
How about http://Gruvr.com?
This is probably just the start of crazier things to come. Once every "single word" misspelling is registered, people will likely be forced to start misspelling "two word" combinations. Can you image...diggThatt.com...noww that suckks.
guess we'll have to do without the e's for a while ... hehe
Yep... that pretty much sums my thoughts up. =/
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zooomr - zoomer
\
zooomer
I also agree that the letter dropping is getting ridiculous, but what choice do webmasters have? Going with a TLD other than .com in order to correctly spell a word won't do- anything that's not a .com or .org looks like a spam or fishing site.
"Flicker is currently performing maintenance on our hosting environment. Please check back soon."