Wordze: Because The Internet Must Have Run Out Of Domain Names Other Than Variations Of Mine

I notice that G-Man’s domain has expired. No worries though. He doesn’t really need that one anymore, because he’s got mine! (ETA: softplus points out that this actually redirects through a Wordze affiliate, so I was right below when I said it may be someone else who grabbed it.)

Actually, I don’t know for sure it was G-Man who grabbed it. Or that whoever registered it even knows about this site. Maybe someone just thought vannessafoxnude.com was an awesome domain name — this person was just jogging one day and the domain came from the sky like divine inspiration. “I know!”, thought that inspired voice inside this person’s head. “Vanessa Fox. Nude. Only with two Ns! Perfect!” And then the logical thing to do with a domain name like is redirect it to Wordze. Clearly.

I probably wouldn’t have noticed, as I tend to spell my own name correctly when I type it into a browser bar, so many thanks to The Mad Hat for pointing it out. The domain was registered about a month ago and hopefully someone from Wordze will come by and let me know if it’s mostly giving them traffic from those who don’t know how to spell my name or from searchers looking for porn because I mostly get the latter, so maybe we could trade.

ETA: As noted above, John (softplus) spotted that the domain redirects through wordzee.com and indeed it does. It 302s to wordzee.com, then to a tiny URL that 302s to wordze.com. Clever. No idea who owns wordzee.com. Probably Dave. (Just kidding, Dave!)

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