Making it more likely people will confuse ’sachs’ with ’sex’ now |
This is the type of borderline worksafe story I’d be more apt to put on our semi-imaginary sister site nakedyougohmm.com with much more detail.
Anyway, watch out for the Streisand effect with a domain, via Reuters:
Goldman Sachs last week submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) arguing the Internet domain name goldmansex.com would cause confusion and contained links to objectionable “adult” material. The NAF mediates corporate disputes including those over Internet domain names.
Purely for reporting purposes (of course!) I checked out goldmansex.com (don’t worry, it’s worksafe, screenshot of homepage above) and noticed it is billed as providing “the largest global directory for adult entertainment to business travellers.”
Conversely, a perusal of the Goldman Sachs site bears no similarities to goldmansex.com site other than the similarity of the first name.
Coming from somebody who has been around the web block awhile, I find it extremely hard to believe that somebody would mistype ’sachs’ as ’sex.’ Somebody should send the folks at Goldman Sachs this archived Hmm post: How to keep stride with typo squatters.
A good award for nakedyougohmm.com (should it ever become fully developed) instead of the Streisand Effect would be the Penis Effect. Actually I can think of an even better name, but I’ll stop now after disrupting all content filters for the day already.
Unlike the Adsense.com customer confusion discussed last night, this sachs vs. sex thing wasn’t an issue. It will be more so now. Doh!
Update 10:01am PST: Just saw this related tidbit at Valleywag:
Note2Dell: Before naming your blog one2one, check whether one2one.com is a porn site. Because, well, it is.
[via ZDnet] Good motivation for buying the domain names of products/services/blogs, even if you just redirect them to a third party location at first. Domain registration is cheap.
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Good one, TD. I see what you mean by semi-imaginary. When do you plan to “flesh it out”?
Comment by Sterling Camden — July 14, 2006 @ 12:47 pm PST
No official plans yet, but definitely working on some stuff behind the big curtain. I think this could/might be one good place to publish the (best and worst of the) Hmm unpublished, some of the stuff we talked about last year, remember? According to my WP word count plugin — which I will be sharing here soon — this content has risen to 26,615 total unpublished words from 97 posts. That’s a decent amount of get off the ground running content.
Comment by TDavid — July 14, 2006 @ 1:13 pm PST
For shore — that’s about half of my Chip’s Quips output to date.
Comment by Sterling Camden — July 14, 2006 @ 1:17 pm PST