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royal.pingdom.com — There are a lot of web hosting companies out there with unusual, strange, or just plain weird names (and URLs). We have collected some of the strangest ones in this post.

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  • apple1, on 01/09/2008, -1/+20WTF does GoDaddy mean?!
  • scrappyvintage, on 01/09/2008, -1/+16It means don't buy hosting from them, they blow shaft.
  • eshiki, on 01/09/2008, -1/+13Personally i think it was supposed to be GodAddy... like they were gods of addresses, but people just started calling it GoDaddy and they just went with it.
  • CasinoJack, on 01/09/2008, -3/+13I realise it's not a hosting company, but expertsexchange.com was always my favorite. I believe it was actually an article that appeared on Digg which caused them to have to change their URL.
  • bamafun, on 01/09/2008, -0/+9www.screamingpeacock.com lol - i don't get that one - web hosting and screaming peacocks?? unless thats what you sound like when your server crashes constantly ??? or maybe they just love peacocks???
  • Flowbee, on 01/09/2008, -0/+8What, no ASmallOrange.com?
  • mrelusive, on 01/09/2008, -1/+9No "A Small Orange", no digg.
  • CheatRZ, on 01/09/2008, -0/+8The list (since the page died):

    "The trashy:
    www.InternetTrash.com (From their website: “The only place for trashy, tasteless, useless, politically incorrect, silly, stupid, meaningless, obnoxious, waste of bandwidth homepages! Normal & ordinary homepages also welcome!”)

    The insanely specialized:
    www.OutGay.com (Yes, it’s web hosting for gay people…)

    The religious:
    www.AmenWorld.com (Their slogan actually is: “In web we trust”)

    The hard to classify:
    www.Yupapa.com (at least it’s not “yumama.com”).
    www.GoDaddy.com (Ok, they are huge, but they still have one of the strangest names around when you think about it.)
    www.FatJackHosting.com

    Animals, animals, animals…:
    There seems to be a lot of love for the animal kingdom among web hosts.
    www.BigWetFish.co.uk
    www.LaughingSquid.net
    www.ScreamingPeacock.com
    www.Chicken-*****.dk
    www.FatCow.com
    www.AtomicFrog.com
    www.FlyingCroc.com
    www.BigBirds.com (Hosting on Sesame Street?)

    The STDs:
    www.Minivds.com (Don’t worry. They’re just really small VDs…)

    The extremely spacious:
    www.MegaGiga.com (Both mega AND giga? Ok, we get it, lots of space, right? But still less than…)
    www.ExaBytes.com (The exa- prefix means 10^18, i.e. one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. Not bad…)

    The Simpson’s alternative:
    www.HowdyNeighbor.com (Did Ned Flanders get into hosting?)

    The healthy alternatives?:
    www.BananaHosting.com (Lots of potassium with your HTML?)
    www.CyberSalad.net (Just add oil and vinegar.)

    The tasty:
    Or should we have called this category “hungry hosting” instead?
    www.Jelly.com.au
    www.JamRoll.net

    Just add Bling?:
    www.DataPimp.com (Though it seems they just shut down.)

    Perhaps not the best choice of words:
    www.PowerSurge.com (Something that can knock out power and hardware is perhaps not the ideal name choice for a hosting company.)
    www.Crankithosting.net (Crank IT Hosting? Methamphetamine hosting? Ok, it’s Crankit hosting, but heck…)
    www.BurningBulb.net (Nothing with “burning” in it, please.)
    www.00server.com (But if you have 0 servers, how can you host anything?)"
  • poidh, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6My fave: http://www.niggahosting.com/ - lol
    Don't Digg me down; it actually exists.......
  • rdrysdale, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6MiniVD... wow, to quote Inigo Montoya, "...I do not think it means what you think it means."
  • davewelsh79, on 01/09/2008, -1/+7I see what you did there.
  • Hockey13, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5Remember when "Yahoo" and "Google" sounded a bit retarded?
  • katrayun, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4I can't reach the link to confirm this, but how could they miss A Small Orange? I actually chose them over other hosts with comparable plans/service because of the quirky name.
  • jebus123, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3Trust, an important part of building a family, and an important part of building his future. That's why I rely on Dillon/Edwards and Company. For nearly a century, investors on Wall Street have trusted Dillon and Edwards with their financial future. And now all of the resources from America's oldest investment firm are available on-line. [Father is at the computer as the website appears, along with web address]Dillon and Edwards on the Internet, at www.clownpenis.fart. A lot of investment companies rushed onto the Internet, but Dillon and Edwards took their time. Sure, when they were ready, there was one web address left, but it's one you can count on.
  • timdorr, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3Wow, thanks guys! :D
  • antdude, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3Huhuhuhu, you said *****. :)
  • fragsta, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2I used to be on www.fuitadnet.com - what the hell is that supposed to mean? Seriously?!
  • Godlike, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2Uhm, how about pingdom? Thats pretty darn 'Huh?' isn't it?
  • funkytaco, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2dugg, because tim is a dork.
  • garbs, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2There's tons of web hosting companies with weird names.

    Lots of hosts + limited number of .com domain names = weird names
  • findhostcoupons, on 03/15/2009, -0/+1Quite interesting article man!
  • Jaydo, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1What... no *****?
  • vornan19, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1I have several email accounts from http:www.cybermesa.com
    They're a local ISP/mini telco here in NM.
  • manitoba98xp, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1It was a list of webhosts, not websites.
  • dnields, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2oops... that's http://www.penisland.net/
  • julianxstone, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2crankithosting is the best. notice they were acquired by beza.net. I think maybe the owners were smokin crack while listing to some ibiza from 2004 or something.
  • chronically420, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1ok im at work right now and i just had to log on to say.. what the *****? lol interesting to say the least :D
  • mannoo2009, on 04/10/2009, -0/+1web hosting reviews and discount coupons: http://www.webhostingreviewz.com/top-ten-web-hosti ...
  • GetShorty, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Not really. pingdom... kingdom...
  • dwalker, on 01/26/2008, -0/+100server - They shouldn't have bothered, they meant it to mean "double oh" as in 007! But it fails miserably.

    But so does http://www.seiretto.com/
    no one can remember the name! Dohhh....
  • inactive, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1something.com.
  • falafelkiosken, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1“The only place for trashy, tasteless, useless, politically incorrect, silly, stupid, meaningless, obnoxious, waste of bandwidth homepages!"
    yeah, something like that I've never seen on the internet
  • Kumah, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1quine = equine = horse
    HorseHosting
  • gamesector, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Amen isn't religiously specialist....it's just a name.
  • gzaa, on 01/09/2008, -3/+4http://www.made2own.com/
    custom computer builder turned web host - great company though!
  • adooga, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1These aren't really very unusual names.
  • made2own, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Funny that I actually did a Control F for Made2Own.com and there it was :)
  • makethemost, on 01/21/2008, -0/+1lol
  • sainfoman, on 05/22/2008, -0/+0http://www.vpsinabox.com
    http://www.isp4you.co.za
    http://www.ispinabox.co.za
  • Frippledip, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1www.penisland.com
  • humperdeath, on 01/09/2008, -3/+3Hah! Good one, the sex change company could read their URL to imply that 'experts' were 'exchanged' I get it!
  • Fashiondude, on 02/01/2008, -0/+0http://www.ukhost4u.com

    I think the whole '4u' is just weird. Do websites still do that?!
  • snapple112, on 01/09/2008, -0/+0MIRROR:
    http://mirror-wire.com/digg/royal/website-hosting- ...
  • IHaveIssues, on 01/09/2008, -1/+1Oh the irony. Hehe, an article about web hosting.
  • fiascooptima, on 03/10/2009, -0/+0http://www.ihubnet.com ... meaning of???
  • Daniel15, on 01/12/2008, -1/+1No mention of nouptime.com or deadhost.net? :P
  • Cathinkmonkey, on 01/10/2008, -0/+0BigWetFish

    So random and DIRTY!
  • CheatRZ, on 01/09/2008, -2/+2I used to have hosting with a company called Chronic Hosting. They have since merged with some other company and no longer use the name. Probably a smart decision =P
  • Japonte, on 01/09/2008, -2/+1Here is another hosting company that with a Special Ohh Name and also a crappy web intro and seem to believe they are the best in the business.

    http://www.webshaven.com
  • N3tw0rk, on 01/09/2008, -2/+1I like http://ferngullygraphics.com/
    They have good prices ($7/month for hosting) and even do web design and logo design, despite the obscure name.
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