Dot.comDeath.com
For a while I've wanted to see a list of domains that are dead and no longer used by anybody. The reason for this, the best I figure anyway is that I have visited website in the past and become a semi-regular visitor of them and watched them die a slow and painfull death. This has had me wondering how many websites has this happend too. How many peoples dreams of making there fortune from the Dot.com frenzy been shattered.
Well today was the day that I got to see one thanks to the beeb for pointing me in the right direction. It was awful at the time I write this there are 27,305,307 deleted or "on hold" websites on the database at deleted domains website, thats one hell of a lot!
Taking a peek through some of the domains I was amazed at the domain names that people had regestered especially when most of them had been regester for the dot.com thing. names like 0000000000000000000000000.com (only resently deleted on the 17/7/02) can you imagen trying to explain that to some one
"how many 0's again?" "is that 0 or o?" I also liked the ones that were in binary eg 011000110110000101110011011010010110111001101111.com.
About half of them were porn sites as well with things like gaybikers.com and 123sexxx.com. Probably giving some sort of insite into the human mind but obviously I wouldn't comment on that now would I.
the site is
here if you fancy having a look yourself