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I was looking up some info on domains for a friend of mine and came across a small article highlighting some unintentionally funny domain names. Just thought I'd share...

Intercapping is often used to clarify a domain name. However, DNS is case-insensitive, and some names may be misinterpreted when converted to lowercase.

For example:
Who Represents, a database of artists and agents, chose whorepresents.com;
a therapists' network thought therapistfinder.com looked good;
and another website operating as of August 2007, is penisland.net a website for Pen Island, a site that claims to be an online pen vendor, but exists primarily as a joke, as it has no products for sale.
Other examples include cummingfirst.com, website of the Cumming First United Church in Cumming, GA and powergenitalia.com, a website for an Italian Power Generator company.
Another is Experts Exchange, the programmers' site, for a long time used expertsexchange.com, but ultimately changed the name to experts-exchange.com.

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