# Unintentionally hilarious company URLs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377 "2014-01-09T18:22:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/21 "2014-01-10T01:04:47Z")
At TV tropes they actually have an entry called [The Problem with Pen Island](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheProblemWithPenIsland) with various examples. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/22 "2014-01-10T01:56:24Z")
Some Italian power generation company had [www.powergenitalia.com](http://www.powergenitalia.com) a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/23 "2014-01-10T02:03:21Z")
I always found Digitalis Land to be funny (aka Digital Island dot com) ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/24 "2014-01-10T04:00:15Z")
A local realtor has a website beginning “anniesold”. I always wonder just _how_ old. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/25 "2014-01-10T05:34:30Z")
A motor shop in Southern California is called Hall and Associates. Their logo reads as Hall Ass… Intentional, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/26 "2014-01-10T08:32:27Z")
My credit union used to be called Washington Federal Telephone Credit Union: [WTF Credit Union](http://www.yelp.com/biz/washington-telephone-federal-credit-union-kensington). The URL used to be [WTFcu.org](http://WTFcu.org). A couple years ago they changed to Signal Financial. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/27 "2014-01-10T13:25:26Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > My credit union used to be called Washington Federal Telephone Credit Union: [WTF Credit Union](http://www.yelp.com/biz/washington-telephone-federal-credit-union-kensington). The URL used to be [WTFcu.org](http://WTFcu.org). A couple years ago they changed to Signal Financial. Why would **W** ashington **F** ederal **T** elephone have the initials **WTF**? Are you sure you didn’t mess up the order somewhere? Seriously, WFT? ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/28 "2014-01-10T14:52:43Z")
There’s a car dealership group in the Kansas City area with the name of “O’Neill”. Many of the cars they sell have license frames that proudly proclaim “[oneillauto.com](http://oneillauto.com)” or “[oneillhonda.com](http://oneillhonda.com)”. I can’t help but read it as “One Ill Auto”. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/29 "2014-01-10T15:33:37Z")
The first time I saw [blogspot.com](http://blogspot.com), I parsed it as “blo G-Spot.” Imagine my disappointment when I clicked on the link. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/30 "2014-01-10T15:39:47Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > You know, everyone always talks about that format with a story of some poor schlub getting a terrible email address but I was envious of the B. Eastman at my last company 😃 I was less envious of an old university housemate named Stuart Adcock. Adcock is bad enough but having your email handle as “sadcock” is just rubbing it in. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/31 "2014-01-10T16:40:54Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Not a company URL, but my company once had an employee whose last name was Nuss, and whose first name began with A. Naturally all company email addresses were in the form of first initial, last name, all lowercase. My two favorite real life examples of this were the e-mail addresses of employees named Mike Asher and Larry Overman. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/32 "2014-01-10T16:42:09Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I was less envious of an old university housemate named Stuart Adcock. Adcock is bad enough but having your email handle as “sadcock” is just rubbing it in. Meh, he probably likes it when people rub his sadcock. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377/33 "2014-01-10T16:58:49Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > My two favorite real life examples of this were the e-mail addresses of employees named Mike Asher and Larry Overman. In a previous job, with the same email convention, I worked with a Claire Allcock. I always wondered why she didn’t ask for an exception to the email policy. My favourite URL is a butcher in London, Hussey’s of Wapping Lane, whose website is [http://www.husseyswappinglane.co.uk/](http://www.husseyswappinglane.co.uk/) I have several hussies I want to swap. What’ll you give me for them? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-hilarious-company-urls/678377.md?page=1)