Comments on: What to do with a meme-ish domain name?

Question: What to do with a meme-ish domain name?

wendell — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:17:47 -0800

Hi, I'm Wendell, and I'm a Domain Name addict. And I just registered DRINKSYOURMILKSHAKE.COM with the intent of setting up something like isyournewbicycle.com but I'm open to other ideas. Feel free to aim your long straw at me...

By: Rumple

Rumple — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:22:37 -0800

A site for straw polls?
Geyser Soze?

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:10 -0800

Lots of flashing gifs that make no sense and a slowed down midi version of Kelis' song. And exclamation points. Don't forget the exclamation points.

By: dmd

dmd — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:36:31 -0800

A very small, tasteful picture of a milkshake.

By: arnold

arnold — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:37:12 -0800

I'd sell it for five bucks.

By: box

box — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:48:32 -0800

Be sure to put some ads on it.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:50:55 -0800

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Are you related to my husband? Put some dashes in there and you could have Drink-your-milk-shake.com.

Otherwise, go to Linkfilter.com or somesuch and prostitute your milk and your shake as necessary.

I will hook you up with him for idea-mongering, MeMail me for his info and more domain name addict convo. I am done. DONE, I TELL YOU.

www.scrambledeggsforbreakfast.com (which appears to be open)

By: 517

517 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:58:44 -0800

"A very small, tasteful picture of a milkshake." That randomly shakes at intervals around 12 seconds.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:13:23 -0800

Just have it refresh every three or four seconds with a picture lifted off flickr of someone drinking a milkshake.

Oh, ads, too.

By: idiotfactory

idiotfactory — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:19:24 -0800

People can vote on 3 random foods to throw into a blender and make you drink. You, of course, blog it every day.

By: synaesthetichaze

synaesthetichaze — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:19:24 -0800

It should be this, and this alone.

By: synaesthetichaze

synaesthetichaze — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:20:03 -0800

(I can't remember where I found that image)

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:34:09 -0800

Luckily, I link to Wendell so that I caught this crazy thread. I don't know what you want to do with this silly url, but it should have absolutely nothing to do with milk, ice cream or milk shakes - zero mention whatsoever. ;)

By: mss

mss — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:38:21 -0800

Put a link on it to watchyourassgrow.com which has one of those irritating resizing deals that resizes and shakes and moves around. Those are always funny.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:52:43 -0800

I'm stunned that wendell would want to do something silly on the internet.

How 'bout a poll, where visitors vote on which of 2 objects/concepts/movies, etc. is superior. The result would be phrased as "Obama totally drinks Hillary's milk shake."

By: nanojath

nanojath — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:06:10 -0800

Maybe you should make it a blog about your endless but vain effort to catch up with Muckster.

By: jenkinsEar

jenkinsEar — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:38:23 -0800

sell dns squats on it? <yournamehere>.drinksyourmilkshake.com pointing to the domain of your choice for five bucks?

By: cholly

cholly — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:48:10 -0800

What about something like justgotowned ?

By: davejay

davejay — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:54:58 -0800

You, sir, have inspired me.

Once upon a time, back in the day ('round about 1996-97) I registered a domain name just for fun, and me and my coworkers did just enough with it to amuse ourselves. Eventually I transferred it to a coworker and walked away, and years later checked in -- it was still registered by someone, someone else, and wasn't being used at all.

I just went and looked, and it was available again. I've just registered it, and while I'm not sure what I'll do with it, thanks for reminding me there's still an opportunity to be silly 'round these here internet parts.

no, I'm not going to tell you what it is.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:09:01 -0800

Hack the new.net malware and use it to convince the gullible that you and you alone are the go-to-guy for new top-level domains.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:25:39 -0800

My apologies to Muckster, who did get to the meme first, but didn't think of a "Your Name Here" implementation. When/if my milkshake is ready, it'll be in Projects...

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:52:26 -0800

It should be a long, detailed examination of drainage - its causes, effects, and historical impact.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:47:40 -0800

Make it a directory for other meme sites. After a while it'll be an interesting historical record of semi-amusing internet memes.