![]() ![]() Most of these domains shouldn’t be followed. As for Xebec, it's a type of sailing ship, but mostly it's an odd-looking word that's memorable.” The Stompa looks nothing like a crab, so nobody remembers why it got translated to ‘Krabouillator.’ The Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian translations are nothing like that. ![]() In Warhammer 40K, the Orks faction have a big robot called a Stompa, but in French it gets translated as ‘Krabouillator’ for some reason. ![]() Site reliability engineer Jade Sprague told us about her consolation prize of a domain: “I have, but there's not really a story behind that one, other than at the time, was taken and that's the one I really wanted. Sometimes you can’t get the joke you want. Senior Software Engineer Michael Stum had the nerdiest joke: “I used to own, with one subdomain, 3. “I bought based on an impulse while looking for dinner one night after a few drinks ‘Whats our food plan of attack? Wait, our plan of a snack?!’" Our own Director of Brand Design, David Longworth shared his internal joke. He shared, ,, and, threateningly, “so many more.” One wonders how many of these actually had a website behind them. The king of the joke domains was on Twitter. Prateek Singh on Facebook was on my level here, admitting to purchasing. A joke made realĪ large number of the oddball domains that we heard about were little jokes people took from their heads to a domain registrar, like my own. Note that there are strange domain names here and some that have lapsed ownership, so no direct links will be given. Our adoring fans had plenty of ridiculous domains to share as well. A selection of them are presented here without comment: Heck, here at Stack Overflow, the company has bought its share of weird domains. With the responses that we got, there was a common theme: a playful idea that someone purchased on a whim but never took any further. Place your bets on its future, but nothing has happened with it so far. For my dad’s birthday one year, he asked me to get him because he hates Facebook and wanted to put up counter-programming there. Speaking of dumb jokes, I also have allis.horse, after a conversation about horse cults. Before joining Stack Overflow, I had, a stray thought that I decided to take too far and then gave up on when I couldn’t suss out the video editing software. So we asked around on Twitter and Facebook, as well as our engineering team, to see what everyone’s strangest domain purchases were.įor the record, I’ve had my share of goofy domains. Over the years we noticed that asking about domain names was always a great conversation starter at Stack Overflow. When it comes to developers, it turns out that twenty bucks is not that much to pay for a joke. If no one else already has your idea, you can get whatever nonsense you can think of for less than US$20 per year. These days, a domain name is about as easy to acquire as it is to conceive of. ![]()
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