Every so often people post a web page without thinking about possible double meanings. As URL addresses ain’t case-sensitive (it doesn’t matter if letters are small or capitol), you can easily read different meanings – also by mistakes.
A few known ones from the web are the following
nowHere.com -> noWhere.com
ChooseSpain.com –> ChoosesPain.com
PotsOfArt.com –> PotsoFart.com
ViaGrafix.com –> ViagraFix.com
Speed of Art -> www.speedofart.com
I chose not to refer to the more obscure mistakes made. Other times, addresses you type do not lead you to the content you are seeking.
Personally I recall being surprised three times this year.
1) www.kirken.com (church dotcom in Norwegian) refers to an anti-abortion site.
2) kyrkan.se (The Swedish church is named Svenska kyrkan) links to a casino site. The correct site is www.svenskakyrkan.se
3) Finally, www.duo.no will take you to a semi pornographic site instead of the University of Oslo publication system named Duo, short for Digitale Utgivelser ved UiO (www.duo.uio.no). This is wehere my thesis is published.
Beware of what you type :)
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