what where they thinking?

nahdoic

battleoftheboynesiteinterperativeandheritagecentre.ie

yeah ... do they realise their IP address would be easier to type than that!?

damnyanks

Wow the URL actually works

nahdoic

let me guess ... you could copied and pasted it in right

moist

Originally posted by nahdoic
battleoftheboynesiteinterperativeandheritagecentre.ie

yeah ... do they realise their IP address would be easier to type than that!?

Wow!
And there was me thinking what www.nationalmarketingandsalesawards.com was bad.

Warning: dodgy flash on that site...

Terminator

Gee, that domain must be hot, I'd better put my skates on and register

http://battle-of-the-boyne-site-interperative-and-heritage-centre.ie

and

http://irish-battle-of-the-boyne-site-interperative-and-heritage-centre-ireland.ie

just for good measure

regi

I quite liked irishnationwideinternationalfinancialservices.ie until I saw irishnationwidemoneybrokersandtreasuryservices.ie, but I think it was irishnationwidetaxationandfinancialplanningservices.ie that took the biscuit.

source: http://whoisireland.com/i-ienoweblist.html

Irish_Ranger_IR

OMG, what a long url,

I would get board typing that, as I am of this.......

The Corinthian

Probably registered by some overzealous droid or marketing bunny. On the other hand, someone may have done it for a laugh as someone else was footing the expense of the registration.

mneylon

Maybe we should start a 'competition' for the most ridiculous domain name?
Any takers?

jmcc

Originally posted by The Corinthian
Probably registered by some overzealous droid or marketing bunny. On the other hand, someone may have done it for a laugh as someone else was footing the expense of the registration.

Standard enough intellectual property tactic - register all variations of the company name. I see it more commonly with the .com domains though most of these are being deleted now as a waste of money.

The most stupid thing about this kind of intellectual property activity is that the .ie domain is supposed to be a managed tld and only those who are entitled to the domain should be able to register it. This means that those tossers have wasted their money. Although I do consider the .ie tld to be a major waste of money for any company.

At the moment I am runing the monthly reindexing spiders for the .ie section of WhoisIreland.com. The interesting pattern that I can see is that a lot of .ie websites have not been modified or updated for years. Despite the lies from IEDR, there are cases of cyberwarehousing that stand out. Most of the domains that were acquired in this manner seem to be unused since the day they were registered. The naff generic names seem to be the least used. I think that the reason for this is that it takes a lot more branding and business sense to turn a generic domain name into a marketable brand. Most of the grabs for generic sounding .ie domains were by people whose ambition, or more accurately dotcom greed, exceeded their abilities and finance.

One of the biggest areas for this kind of landgrab has been in the directory/search engine area. As the people here who run search engines and directories will tell you, it can be very hard work.

Regards...jmcc