Category: External Screenshot

  • Wasted URLs: Ape.com and Apes.com

    Ape Con Myth is all for acronyms, but online it is easy to take them too far.

    Yes, Automated Production Equipment does equal A.P.E., but even as “The World Leader in Surface Mount Repair Equipment”,  this is not cutting it for Ape.com…

    But at least A.P.E. is supposedly international and put what looks like an ape under the palm tree in their logo.  All Phase Electrical Systems, on the other hand, is an electrical contracting outfit only serving southern California.  Unless the owner is big into evolution and thought he was covering a nod to apes by putting his picture on the site, there’s no justification for Apes.com looking like this:

  • Wasted URLs: Unicorn.com

    There’s pretty much no excuse for this redirect.  Of all the places in the IBM empire, something called WebSphere is where they send people looking for unicorn.com?

    IBM_Unicorn

    This is more what we’re looking for when the subject is unicorns…

    Robot_Unicorn

    This domain should be surrendered at once to a commission of elementary school kids who will be charged with its protection from non-awesome incarnations in the future.

  • Wasted URLs: Color.com

    That they paid $350,000 for it and took down colour.com while they were at it hints at some real lunacy.
    That they got $41M in funding points to a complete breakdown of the system.  And if that isn’t enough waste for you, think of all the people who are going to use it (for a short time).

  • Wasted URLs: PiDay.com

    PiDay.com

    You aren’t going to find the digits of pi through that site.

    But you can find them here.  Celebrate the day by trying to find your phone number or date of birth in the first 1,000,000 digits of pi!

    [Image via PiDay.com]