The bandwagon is fully loaded

The internet boom (and bust) came and went, but it has just dawned on me that the internet really was (and still is) a huge thing. I don’t mean in the commercial or social networking sense. Rather, I am talking about the URL hoarding business.

Try searching for a dot com domain name for “monkey”. I tried this the other day. Any combination that makes sense has been taken, obviously. But when I actually visited these sites, about 70% of them don’t really have any relevant content. Some even flash the “Make an offer for this domain name” sales pitch on the page.

Among those that I tried, from the obvious to the ridiculous:

monkeytree, monkeyculture, monkeystudio, monkeyplay, monkeyfun, monkeyway, monkeyme, mymonkey, memonkey, gomonkey, funkymonkey, twomonkeys, threemonkeys, fourmonkeys, and so on…

As a joke, a friend said, “try monkeymonkey.com”. Taken.
“What about monkeymonkeymonkey.com?” Taken.
I tried sevenmonkeys. Taken.
Even ****ingmonkey is taken.

Could be a frustrating process. Somehow I had fun with it.

And in case you are wondering, monkeymonkeymonkeymonkey has not been taken. But who would actually use this as their URL?

I'd say, you never know.