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Loverscale.Com
Description: With this great and unique web site, the lovers can publish their love messages as loverscale boards whenever they want. The loverscales publish on the index page. The messages receives in order of arrival and publishing is free. The site have thausands visitors already.
Ning
Description: Social networking is all the rage, and Ning takes it to the next level by letting you create your very own social network. Design your own profile questionnaire, decide what modules to include, and choose a template for your social network. Ning is a great website for organizing a group of people.
The Onion
Description: An oldie but a goody, The Onion is still going strong and remains one of the hippest places to hang out on the web. Known for satirical news and irreverent treatment of popular issues, The Onion might just be the funniest destination on the web. For this, it tops the list of cool websites.
Pandora
Description: Created by the Music Genome Project, Pandora offers a unique Internet radio service by playing related songs not based on the likes and dislikes of other people, but based on how close together the songs are musically. This cool website is great for putting music on in the background while you surf or work.
WidgetBox
Description: Whether you want to put some glitz on your blog or some bling on your MySpace profile, web widgets are where its at. And Widgetbox has all the widgets you could want.
Woot
Description: The perfect website for those that like to shop but don't have a lot of time to browse through a slew of merchandise, the daily woot features only one product, so you can save time and still do your thing.
Flixster
Description: This really cool website should come with a warning label that reads, "Do not enter if you are short on time." For anyone that likes movies, this site is simply addicting. Watch out for the never-ending trivia game -- it never ends!
Protopage
Description: The most Web 2.0 of the personalized start pages, this cool website is perfect for anyone that really likes podcasts or is looking to put some personality into their custom home page.
StumbleUpon
Description: StumbleUpon is like having a remote control for the web where you can flip through website after website. A word of caution, though, stumbling can be addictive and can lead to a sore pointer finger from repetitive clicking.
It all seems innocent enough when you're creating the domain name for your brand new website. You've written it down, asked your friends what they think and finally decided that THIS is the name you will go with. But then it shows up here, on a TOP 10 List of
Unintentionally Funny Websites.
10. webone.com.au
http://webone.com.au
I'm very happy for you but the ladies don't really like it when you say you're boningwhat's that you say? Web One? My mistake.
9. potsofart.com
http://www.potsofart.com
Oh, Pots of Art people do like artsy pots more than pots full of farts.
8. daleshitchinstation.com
http://www.daleshitchinstation.com
Poor Ol' Dale. Stuck with the worst nickname in history and he goes and names his station after it. I'm not even gonna ask how he got the "shit chin".
7. teacherstalk.co.uk
http://www.teacherstalk.co.uk
Remember that hot drama teacher from High School? Ever wonder where she is now? Do you want to know what she's wearing and whom she's with at this moment? Then seek helpthis is a website for teachers who want to talk. No stalkers allowed!
6. wtf.org
http://www.wtf.org
WTF indeed! I had no idea there was a World Taekwondo Federation. Please don't kick me.
5. goredforwomen.org
http://www.goredforwomen.org
There are a lot of things I'd do for women but goring is at the top of the list of things I won't.
4. mp3shits.com
http://mp3shits.com
I have a lot of downloaded music but why would anyone want to listen to bowel movements?
3. accesstherapist.com
http://www.accesstherapist.com
Not sure why I'd want to access the rapist, in fact I would like to stay as far away as I can, thank you very much.
2. dollarsexchange.com
http://www.dollarsexchange.com
Sounds like a good deal for a sex change but then again, you get what you pay for.
1. gotahoe.com
http://www.gotahoe.com
As a matter of fact I don't but thanks for asking Mr. Pimp. Oops, I mean Tahoe is very nice this time of year.
Expensive Websites
There are three different way to establish the values :
1. The estimated net worth or value of the website; calculated from the number of daily traffics, number of contents, and number of unique features of the website.
2. The money spent on building the website.
3. The cost to purchase the domain name (i.e Business.com).
From the net worth aspect, here's the top 5 most valued website :
1. Google.com - $29,474,299,422
2. Yahoo.com - $18,551,630,085
3. Amazon.com - $11,501,285,068
4. MySpace.com - $7,122,577,773
5. eBay.com - $5,622,551,932
As for the aspect of the cost from building the website, there are no valid data that could tell the exact spending of the website. This is because of the fact that almost all of the websites on the Internet didn't publish their expenditure data for the public.
The most expensive website in the world, Google. The cost will includes the purchase of the servers and headquarters.
Headquarters : $319 million
Data Centers (with about 1,827,200 servers) : $913 million
Total : $1,232,000,000
Lastly, from the aspect of the domain name cost, here are the list of top 5 most expensive domain names :
1. Insure.com, sold to QuinStreet for $16 million in 2009.
