Many long URLs can be saved. They're long ... they're intimidating ... they're most certainly not user friendly ... but at least links like Google Maps addresses, Yahoo articles and on-site search listings can be shrunk down to a manageable size with a good URL shortening service. However, when your long URL is a part of your company's branding, the situation becomes a little more hopeless! You can hardly hand out business cards with an address like http://ity.im/0bf on them, after all. So today we take a look (and try to learn a lesson from!) some of the longest, un-saveable URLs on the web!
These people could have had www.yellowbird.com, but no ... they really wanted to be unique! I know that you have to have a point of difference in order for your business to survive. But should you really be known for terrible, difficult to remember URLs? It is a great site, though!
2. www.europeantileandstoneinstallation.com
I understand the rationale behind this very non-short URL ... but I still don’t believe it's necessary! Euro Tile and Stone, Stone Tile Installations, Euro Stone ... any of the above would have worked far better.
I understand the rationale behind this very non-short URL ... but I still don’t believe it's necessary! Euro Tile and Stone, Stone Tile Installations, Euro Stone ... any of the above would have worked far better.
3. www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com
Faboo! I love this long URL. Unfortunately, I think that despite its good sense of humor and intentions, it probably loses a lot of its branding by being fed into URL shorteners more than any other single domain on the web!
Faboo! I love this long URL. Unfortunately, I think that despite its good sense of humor and intentions, it probably loses a lot of its branding by being fed into URL shorteners more than any other single domain on the web!
This long, unsaveable URL is no longer in commission. Perhaps if they had used a good URL shortening services the site would have got enough visitors to pay for itself ...
This is a Dutch site - it isn't a purposefully made gobbledegook URL. Again, this site is no longer with us in web-land (or perhaps has simply been moved to a more manageable URL!).
And just for fun ... this URL is certainly saveable with a URL shortening service. This is why they were invented!
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