mashable.com — One of Internet trends that has started to irritate people over the last few years is dropping vowels from company names - Flickr, Tumblr, Pluggd, Talkr, Anothr. As diehard members of the spelling Nazis, we decided to see what had become of the correctly spelled domains, which are still racking up pageviews from visitors who can actually spell.
May 22, 2007 View in Crawl 4
huntertvMay 22, 2007
im in yr web 2.0 buying yr vowlz
zhulienMay 23, 2007
damn, <a class="user" href="http://www.prn.com/">http://www.prn.com/</a> is taken. I was hoping for a potential 9 mil!
jpfedMay 23, 2007
"Flickr", as a name, makes some sense. A flicker is over before you know it, and that is suggested by the abrupt ending that the name "Flickr" has. The other variations on that theme are quite irritating to me because they copy the abruptly-ending naming device, while the phenomena they refer to do not warrant the use of that device.
smorty71May 23, 2007
Glad to see they included Profilactic on the list.<a class="user" href="http://www.profilactic.com/mashup/smorty71">http://www.profilactic.com/mashup/smorty71</a>
wayne247May 23, 2007
Fckn whnrs!Vwls r fr pssz
notantspantsMay 23, 2007
While we're at it, maybe the Americans can put the u back in colour, replace the z where it should be an s and start calling a route/router as a route/router and not a rout/rout(er)
flylikegumbyMay 24, 2007
spelling nazis? that's a terrible use of the word "nazi".
hkornfeldJul 4, 2007
Yeah, the "e" was really overused in the past, it needs a rest.