Since the first time I ever experienced the joy of buying a domain name way, way back in the year 2000 (teehee, that’s fun to say), I’ve become rather addicted to that feeling. The fun, the exhilaration, the excitement of potential, all concisely packaged in a www, a few carefully chosen words, and a .com. It’s fabulous. My love of that feeling has spawned a domain name collection that is frankly quite ridiculous. I have far more domain names than I know what to do with – some have great purpose, but I don’t have enough time to see them through to the end. While others I bought without any clue what to do with them in the first place. Regardless, it’s a cheap way to pick myself back up after a bad day.

    However, once my domain collection reached its current extreme, I decided to lay off for a while, take a break, perhaps find a 12 step program to resolve this problem of mine. But then, I went shopping… No, no, not for another domain name, but for a birthday present for my Father.

    I ended up at Buy.com, one of my favorite shopping haunts these days. There I found the first season of the 80’s classic, ‘Sledge Hammer’, on DVD. It was fantastic, it was $2 cheaper than at Amazon, and it came with the greatest perk of all time!

    A free domain name! Just for meee! How could I resist? So I bought one I’ve been wanting – dare I say, needing – for some time now. So the latest addition to my collection is Neerom.com, the online headquarters of Neeröm Productions, my production company responsible for my latest television project. (By the way, Neeröm is an onomatopoeia for the sound of a racecar speeding by. Say it yourself, extending the eeee sound whilst swinging your head from left to right, being careful to imagine me racing past in my Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale. And there you have it, neeröm. Don’t let that o’umlaut fool you – it’s not Swedish, it’s just stupid.) 🙂 I’m very excited about it and I’m keen to get on with designing it, just so long as my brain continues to cooperate.

    Interestingly enough, just as I’m admiring my new domain name, my brother popped into my room to share a silly story he read in his latest issue of New Scientist magazine. It’s just too funny, I felt honor bound to share it. 🙂 I just hope this doesn’t mess with my google results.

    “A note circulating round th einternet, which some readers will have seen but others won’t, lists internet domain names consisting of run-together words that can be parsed in unintended ways.
Firstly there is “Who Represents?”, a database of agencies for the rich and famous, the domain name of which is www.whorepresents.com. Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views: www.expertsexchange.com.

    Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island: www.penisland.net. Need a therapist? Try www.therapistfinder.com. And if you want to stock up on bedding plants, try the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales, Australia: www.molestationnursery.com.

    The list concludes with the mythical power company www.powergenitalia.com. We say mythical, because we investigated this site back on 5 July 2003. It turned out not to be the Italian subsidiary of the UK electricity company PowerGen, but a small company in Tuscany that charged batteries. But even that, it seems, no longer has this domain name, which has been relegated to the category of urban myth. The other sites are real.”

    Eesh, www.penisland.com… how could they not notice that?! Hehehe…