A REALLY bad website address.
Posted on Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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A website address that’s so long, it’s basically useless.
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This domain name was so long (and therefore bad), that I just had to take a photo of it, as an example of what not to call your site.
On the way back from a photo shoot I did for Porsche I spotted this sign, advertising a new website for Kyalami Race Track. Granted, I’m not the most experienced and knowledgeable web guy out there, but I certainly wouldn’t have chosen http://www.kyalamigrandprixentertainment.co.za for my domain name. That’s 45 characters you have to type, just to get there. With South Africa’s poor literacy rate, and even worse computer literacy rates, the chances of someone noticing that mass of characters, being able to recognise the consitituent words (kyalami grand prix entertainment), being able to remember the address and then being able to spell it properly when they get in front of a computer are pretty slim.
What’s wrong with http://kyalamifun.co.za, and how about at least highlighting the individual words, so that people can make out what the 45 letter monster is all about?
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Update. The link seems to be dead. Perhaps they realised their folly.
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