# Accidental URL porn **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625 "2008-07-24T15:58:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/21 "2008-07-24T19:24:31Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] [Find The Rapist.org](http://findtherapist.org/) [/QUOTE] Found him: [Psycho the Rapist.com](http://www.psychotherapist.com/) ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/22 "2008-07-24T19:27:17Z")
Like Experts Exchange, there are probably a lot that follow the pattern (blank)sexchange, e.g. [kidsexchange.net](http://www.kidsexchange.net). ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/23 "2008-07-24T21:08:21Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] We all know about the (now in-) famous Pen Island ([www.penisland.com](http://www.penisland.com)), and there are other fine examples, such as the very annoying Experts Exchange ([www.expertsexchange.com](http://www.expertsexchange.com)), now sadly incorporating a hyphen. Today, however, I came across a marvellous new example of this most entertaining genre: Big Bus Tours, London. The back of all their buses boldly advertises [www.bigbustours.co.uk](http://www.bigbustours.co.uk), and perhaps they’ve realised how it could be misinterpreted, because it’s carefully colour-coded: [www.bigbustours.co.uk](http://www.bigbustours.co.uk). This, however, didn’t stop me from having a laughter-inspired breakdown in front of Baker Street station earlier this afternoon, when I realised how amusing the mis-reading could be. Big Bus Tours, now recommended by Jordan and Pamela Anderson… 😃 Anyone else have other URLs which really should have been proofread better? [/QUOTE] You realize that [wwww.bigbustours.com](http://wwww.bigbustours.com) and [wwww.bigbustours.org](http://wwww.bigbustours.org) will be occupied by a porn site in a day. They should have just picked a better URL like wwww.big\_bus\_tours.co.uk and avoided the problem. ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/24 "2008-07-24T22:56:23Z")
I found the converse of this: Oddly enough, [www.exoticmeats.com](http://www.exoticmeats.com) is perfectly worksafe. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/25 "2008-07-24T23:07:36Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] [www.whitehouse.gov](http://www.whitehouse.gov). NOT .com. [/QUOTE] My Gov Docs professor went to the wrong one on a distance ed class being remotely viewed by oodles and oodles of people, across state lines. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/26 "2008-09-25T05:47:56Z")
If you put in the name of my college and finish with .com, not .edu, you get porn. Professors have made this mistake in class. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/27 "2008-09-25T10:04:03Z")
I was looking for roller skates on line and decided to check out Dicks Sporting Good. \*\*www. dicks. com \*\*won’t get you rollerskates. ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/28 "2008-09-25T13:23:11Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > My son was doing research on George Washington Carver when he was in elementary school. He typed in [georgewashingtoncarver.com](http://georgewashingtoncarver.com) and up popped a site that had NOTHING to do with this famous agricultural scientist. > > I have no idea if that’s still the case, but it got me wondering…who, looking for porn, is going to think of George Washington Carver? Used to be, though I’m not sure if this is still the case, that when certain ISP’s would have a domain go dormant, they’d forward that to one of the porn sites that they served, as that would drive some revenue somehow. I wonder if this might be what happened in this case… ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/29 "2008-09-25T16:22:36Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > If you put in the name of my college and finish with .com, not .edu, you get porn. Professors have made this mistake in class. Ah, but that’s nothing to do with the name of your college, is it? I’m trying to think of a college which might potentially turn into a dirty word with a -com suffix and failing. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/30 "2008-09-25T22:12:49Z")
I wonder how often computer programmers looking for information about the [Symbian Operating System](http://www.symbian.com/) get mixed up and type in http:/ /www.sybian.com . ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/31 "2008-09-25T22:22:22Z")
well considering how SCA Tissue makes toilet paper I always thought it was funny that their website could be seen as a “scat issue”. only marginally related, but I always found domain name sitters to be a leading cause of accidental porn viewage. first of course by sitting on domains that are mispellings of more popular wesbites, but also by stealing up expired domains. I had let my own website domain name expire accidently and was treated to a frantic call from my mother asking why I was putting hardcore porn on my website. I checked and realized that someone had taken my domain after it expired and I had forgotten to renew it right away. Why they thought my website was getting enough hits to make it worth the money to steal my non existent audience is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/32 "2008-09-25T22:33:04Z")
> [@mischievous](#): > > I found the converse of this: > > Oddly enough, [www.exoticmeats.com](http://www.exoticmeats.com) is perfectly worksafe. [www.wildmeat.co.uk](http://www.wildmeat.co.uk) is another safe one, even though the .com version certainly isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/33 "2008-09-25T23:27:17Z")
I believe the [Horniman Museum](http://www.horniman.ac.uk/) has had quite a bit of troubole with blocked emails and the like. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625/34 "2008-09-26T00:29:11Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > Ah, but that’s nothing to do with the name of your college, is it? I’m trying to think of a college which might potentially turn into a dirty word with a -com suffix and failing. Giant Black Cock College is a proud educational institution, I’ll have you know. It’s named for the favorite rooster of Methodist Jason Lee, a man whose funding started several schools in Oregon in the 1800’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accidental-url-porn/457625.md?page=1)