Peter Askew sent this one in from Seattle. Love how they use "Smoke" like it's a verb rather than an adjective. At least the URL is sea-worthy, as in worthy of being seen....

Behold the HELLAAMBIGUITY that is ALLCAPS. The name of this building is Park Kingsbury Lofts but the eye is trained to read Parking, especially when looking at a sign on a building! Reminds me of Nosmo King...Image Source...

United really plussed up this URL. Nice Leading Caps. No dubs. They should get a positive charge from this one!...

I don't hate the alternate domain (non-dot-com) because it bares the initials of the key words. It sucks that the decal has the first "c" caught in the crevice though. Dot-cc is already a not easily recognized TLD, much less when half of one of the letters is cut off. This URL's gonna make ya sweat ...

Domainer Chris Brown asked me what I thought of this URL. While I like the selection and presentation (despite the spacing issues), I can't see this fetching anywhere near the asking price of $150k. Brown is holding steady to his belief that this could be the first six word domain sale to break the ...

Here's another SkewURL (that would be Askew-URLs for the uninitiated). Peter thought this was "cringe-worthy" but I don't mind the URL selection. Would love to see Leading Caps, though. 1ForAll.us. Now that's something I can get behind. If they really want this website to stand for something, they s...

Oh, Christ! Where to begin? The alllowercase? The non-intuitive abbreviation? Reminds me of Flutter, the parody of Twitter featuring a "nano-blogging" platform that strips out the vowels. 2 thmbs dwn fr ths bd rl....

Brian Leiberman checks in with his 3rd URL-spotting to date and asks, "What were they thinking?" Truth is, I really don't mind this one. Despite ALLCAPS, spacing issues, and a service mark, the URL is actually pretty easy to make out and the logo, all told, is quite elegant what with the dot-com ble...

Peter Askew saw this great (and rare) 3-letter URL on the TV show, Amazing Race. Of course, the drama between Google and the Chinese government has been as exciting as any reality show plotline and ended with Google pulling out of China after getting hacked. This URL now redirects to the Google Hong...

The URL-icious Alichia Keller pointed me to this Yahoo! News article covering a campaign by unemployed residents of Buffalo, NY to get the attention of Obama on job creation. Don't love how they used the acronym for this slang as their URL. Acronyms/Abbreviations only work when the result is somethi...

Mr. David J. Barnes spotted this search ad with the ebonics spelling of "is." I can haz lots of fun with this one!...

Saw this rotating ad on a truck parked at the Hard Rock Chicago. Not sure why they had to go and ruin a perfectly good URL with dubs and alllowercase....

Dipping back into the GUBU mailbag. Here's one from Bob Kahns. He says, "Alternating font helps, but the all caps hurts. She might know everything you need to know about health & wellness, but she doesn't know good URL tactics." While I applaud the pun, I don't agree with the assessment. I think...

Peter Askew is back with SkewURL #40. I'll overlook the spacing issues here because the letters are close together enough (not to mention it helps separate the 2 s's) and the Leading Caps make it clear it's an URL. I also think it's a pretty clever URL choice for a dog trainer. This URL is pretty d...

This one I nabbed myself off the boob tube. Great trackable URL for DR TV. And nice use of alternating fonts and Leading Caps to make this URL quite legible. They really max out their placement here, bringing clarity to the URL. Not much free advice I can offer them....

Thomas Umstattd Jr. submitted this "permanently good URL" that he came across in a Host Gator forum. Apparently this guy did it for $2k and a trip to Vegas. As I told Thomas this can be classified under "Bad Decision, Good URL."...

I just returned from holiday in Italy. I was out there for a good friend’s wedding and my wife and I tacked on a few extra days for sight-seeing. I had fully intended on taking a break from URL-spotting and swapping URL-aholism for one of my other aholism vices (after all, we were in the land of v...

Here’s another bad Florentine URL. This one uses the native TLD (.it) but fails to use Leading Caps to distinguish the words. With a name like Optik, that has the inverse of the TLD buried in it, the result is an optical illusion in which the “ti” and the “it” can easily become inverted. T...

To show that it’s not all bad in Italy, here’s a nice clean URL that I presume is for the Parks Department. When it comes to good URL presentation, they Get.it....

I saw quite a few URLs on Vehicles in the bigger cities in Italy. This one was promoting the Instituti Di Vigilanza Reuniti D’Ital. Can’t fault the URL selection here but I don’t love the alllowercase display. I much prefer ALLCAPS when it comes to Abbreviations as that makes the series of let...

This URL adorned the roof of a taxi cab in Florence. Not sure who they hope to reach with this one but it sure ain’t the passengers inside. And it’s not like Florence is Manhattan, replete with big buildings lining the streets, so there’s not people looking down on cars very often. Alas, I’m...

This sign was promoting rooms available in La Spezia near the train station. Once again, a few Leading Caps would’ve gone a long way. Maybe all the way to La Luna....

Here’s another purveyor of rooms in La Spezia making the same alllowercase mistake. IfOnlyTheyRealizedHowMuchRoomierTheirURLsWouldBeWithLeadingCaps....

We stumbled upon this URL in the train station at Vernazza, which is one of the small fisherman villages in Cinque Terre, located on the Italian coast, just East of Pisa. The ugliness of this URL was a stark contrast to the natural beauty of this region. Clearly, it’s aimed for tourists, so it’s...

Not sure what to make of this one. The only certainly is that the food at this restaurant in Florence was top notch. It’s URL uses the number 4 instead of spelling it out, which matches the brand name so no problem there. It uses ALLCAPS for LEONI which I don’t love but can’t really fault. Aga...