FLETCHERJONESAUDI.COM/NORTHAVE.HTM

ALL CAPS and /Slashes can be tolerated but what comes after the slash here is unforgivable. North and Ave are 2 words that just don't go well smushed together (Nort Have?) and there's no reason to include .HTM. This URL is High-Total-Maintenance, let's hope their cars aren't!

WWW.NAPLETOWN.COM

OK, so the name of the dealership is Napleton's but the URL is Napletown? Sorry, but it's brown frown for Napletown. :(

www.callAPlusRestoration.com

Hmm, how exactly do I call this domain name?!? F-minus for this URL.

HTTP://WWW.KNOPE2012.COM/IMAGESCMYK/CAMPAIGN/1239U/09230023/POSTER/.JPEG

Just say Knope to Bad URLs! Bet poor Leslie wished this domain got parked rather than (w)rec(k)ed.

DANiELISLANDTechSavvyKIDSCLUB.com

Let's hope they're not teaching kids how to choose and display domain names. Whoever came up with this looooong URL sure was riding the short bus!

www.chick-fil-aleadercast.com/atlanta

Here's another SkewURL (for the uninitiated, those are URLs spotted by URL-aholic Peter Askew of Search Bound) from Chick-Fil-A . Peter seems to eat there a lot!

This one is a mess of mashed up alllowercase and an ill-advised /slash. As Peter points, out it should've been Chick-Fil-A.com/LeadercastAtlanta or dropped Atlanta altogether and had a drop-down on the landing page.

As it stands, this URL is not chic. It's not ful-fil-ling. And it grades an F not an A.

http://bit.ly/dn5n10

Here's a tip when using bit.ly or other URL shorteners in print. Customize them! Too tough to tell the difference between zero and letter O and one and letter L. And this one ends with both. Oy vey! Thanks again to Brian Leiberman for the spot and reminding us that a little bit of extra effort goes a long way.

www.EMBA.utk.edu

The URL-alert Alichia Keller spotted this one and offered up some pun gems like "Education needs an education" and "This school needs to be schooled." Indeed the mix of CAPS and lowercase is befuddling. And the dubs aren't necessary in an online ad. Methinks this URL does not make the grade.

RIM.jobs

Want to work at RIM? Beware the back door dealings.

adultstudies.trnty.edu

And a few vowels could change your URL!

www.exercisetv.tv./fitness360

What is it with Ex-er-cise-tv-dot-tv? Not only is it a Bad URL but it has no concept of how to display itself. Not what you'd expect from a franchise devoted to improving one's appearance. Here, they not only present a mess of alllowercase preceded by Dubs and followed by a slash but theres an extra dot thrown in for good measure that makes this not even a functioning URL. Dot's not very nice.

AFFILIATEDOTCOM.com

Sorry for being AWOL these past couple months. Don't worry, I haven't been cured of my URL-aholism. Was just busy promoting my Google book via blog tour and settling into my new role at Kenshoo. More on why I took the gig on the now defunct Connectual blog.

Thankfully, my fellow URL-aholics have been busy URL-spotting in my absence. Here's one from the URLy bird himself, Peter Askew of SkewURL fame (this is his 43rd submission, mind you).

As Peter observed, "at first I thought the site was Affiliate.com... until I looked a little closer..."

Bottom line, Affiliate dot com dot com dot bombs.

www.mayo-clinic-jobs.com

Alichia Keller was on-the-spot with this bad banner ad. 3 dashes does not exactly make this URL dashing.

adultstudies.trnty.edu

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.

inafj.org

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 something easily recognizable. And that question mark before the URL only confuses matters even further. Is that part of the URL or not? Let's just hope these folks aren't trying to get jobs in marketing.

www.PerfectlyGoodAirplane.com, perfectlygoodairplane.com

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.

FashionStore.it

This one features great presentation with Leading Caps but I’m not sure about pairing English words with a .it domain? That would be like having a glass of Chardonnay with a beefsteak.

info@furiniartecontemporanea.it

Here’s another Arezzo alllowercase folly. Let’s hope the art doesn’t leave as much room for misinterpretation as the URL does.

www.edil-max.it

Behold the dreaded dash in this Roman URL. They’re really not max-imizing the real-estate here. Rome may not have been built in a day but this URL sure won't stand the test of time.

uti.edu

Here's another from Bob Kahns. In the understatement of the year, he points out that UTI "certainly has other meanings for some." Let's just hope he doesn't know from experience! (Sorry, Bob... don't get pissed at me!)