By David Lloyd: September 20th 2006
Sounding like an ancient Elf warlord from the Lord Of The Rings could be a plus if you want to be memorable. Frankly, you'll have to spell it and hope they don't type it in as pietagger.com. As a bonus, it sounds pretty absurd as well. Set up a virtual desktop with Pytagor.
Overall Score: 12
My head is starting to ache, I've been looking at these names for a long time now, and my tongue is in knots trying to pronounce this. I wouldn't want to say it to anyone to be quite frank. I suspect they originally were going to call their project something like Online Reality Game, but were lucky enough to pick up one of the remaining 4 letter .coms left on the planet and changed the site name to match it. Join the fun at Xuqa.com.
Overall Score: 12
Sounding like an out-take from an early 80s video arcade, this name falls down on so many levels. See if you can guess what sort of site it is? Tell someone the name and then tell them to visit it, watch for the blank looks on faces then be thoroughly disappointed when you learn that they do local coupon management. Sheesh! Get 10% off at Zixxo.
Overall Score: 12
A made up nonsense word that is catchy but absurd - it will eternally sound like someone sneezed and they should get extra bonus points for featuring bumble bees and beeing in beeta. Can I go home now please? Network socially at Renkoo.
Overall Score: 13
Sounding like a Viking god may be a good way of aiding people's memory, but sounding absurd, being made-up and both difficult to spell and pronounce will get you knocking door of the Top 5 of our list. Network with other athletes at Thoos.
Overall Score: 14
NOTE: I have since been informed that Thoos is Greek for swift. This means it's no longer a made up word, merely convoluted - however, they can keep their place as I'm to lazy to move it all about.
A convention defying, nonsense word made up of two others, thumblicio.us will fool the more savvy users as they try to figure where the de.licio.us, deli.cio.us, del.icio.us like full stop is, when in fact there's none. Personally, I make it a personal mantra to avoid web sites that sound like fairytale characters. I'm funny that way. Browse with thumbs at Thumblicio.us.
Overall Score: 14
Gibbity. Gibbity. Gibbity. Kerplong. Splash! Wiggle wiggle - ker-spling! Gibbity.
Overall Score: 14
Cookie or Kookie? Cooky or Kooky? Whatever way, you're fingers will be worn out trying all the variations and you still won't realise that the spelling is nothing like any of the above. Looks cool but sounds pretty grim and tells you nothing about what they do. You'll be spelling it to everyone you can be bothered to mention it too. Check out the eBay tools at Cooqy.
Overall Score: 14
It sounds so innocent - a new word made from two other words and with a dropped penultimate e. However, it's just so ugly and horrid sounding. I can't mention it with out sniggering. For starters there are too many words you could rhyme it with for comic effect. Most of all, it's inhumane to people with lisps, making them sound like they're masturbating when in fact they just repeating the name of their favourite social networking site several times until you've got the spelling. Map your friends at Frappr.
Overall Score: 13 14 (+1 Bonus for rhyming with crapper, slapper, dapper, etc.)
This is just so wrong on so many levels it hurts. Seriously, my teeth are aching. What's more, would you believe they're all about educational resources? Get bwks and tutes on Skiance, Maffs and Inglish and moor. Recommend the best educational resources in a Digg alike manner at QoolSqool.
Overall Score: 14
Really I could have gone on for weeks with these, but life's to short and frankly I've wasted enough of it compiling this list already. On the final page you can see more of this hell on the shortlist which features the 120 stupidly named sites that I narrowed down from a field of thousands.
Page 1 - Numbers 25 - 21
Page 2 - Numbers 20 - 11
Page 3 - Numbers 10 - 01
Page 4 - The shortlist
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