Coolest Hostnames

[Archivist's note: This page was at http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mengwong/coolhosts.html, disappearing in 1997.] This page will soon undergo a massive reorganization; I had not expected to find it listed on Yahoo's cool sites. Order will soon arrive. (Hey, if I can clean my room, I can clean anything!)

me@my.net (Me)
www.com (Thanks to jenkin@itl.net (James Jenkin))
little.bit.lv (Thanks to Nick Ustinov (nick@bit.lv))
monarch.butterfly.net, iron.butterfly.net, madame.butterfly.net (Thanks to motodave@monarch.butterfly.net (David Levine))
crash.ops.neosoft.com (Thanks to dbaker@NeoSoft.COM (Daniel Baker))
jemima.syrup.mil (Thanks to kdea@cs.UCR.EDU (kevin dea))
gratuitouslylonghostname.apana.org.au (Thanks to chris@calvin.apana.org.au (Chris Saunderson))
robot.asimov.net (I, Robot, etc.), seldon.asimov.net (named after the Foundation hero), threelaws.asimov.net (of robotics) (Thanks to modus@asimov.net (Patrick Kane))
world.glo.be (Thanks to muumi@stack.urc.tue.nl (John Stienen))
in.ter.net (Thanks to erik@xs4all.nl (Erik Bos))
home.pages.de (Thanks to rah@[130.75.57.200] (Reinhard A. Hamid))
howling@themoon.com (Thanks to Mark Guagliardo (postmaster@usemail.net))
drag.net (Thanks to shabu@indy.net (Shawn M. Burt))
hyper.active.co.za, radio.active.co.za, inter.active.co.za and retro.active.co.za (Thanks to Michael Wood (wood@hyper.active.co.za))
smoke.thepipe.com (Thanks to Eric Sorenson (eric@aloha.net))
waiting@busstop.com
you.got.net, we.got.net, god.got.net, satan.got.net, yrmom.got.net (Thanks to Jay Campbell (edge@got.net))
clark@daily.planet.net (Thanks to clark himself, also speaking for lois, jimmy and mrwhite (Fred LaParo))
love.hate.org, pure.hate.org, sheer.hate.org, and eternal.hate.org (Thanks to Mark S. Cornick <mark@evol.resnet.jmu.edu>)
acid.base.com
pothole.com, another.pothole.com and reallydeep.pothole.com (Thanks to dpitkin@tiac.net (David Pitkin))
you.killed.their.net, i.killed.their.net, we.killed.their.net, they.killed.their.net, do.not.touch.their.net (Thanks to kenny@freak.org)
speedtrap.com (Thanks to andy@andy.net, whose roommate is bob@bob.net)
me@this.net (Thanks to cs4gp6ad@church.dcss.mcmaster.ca)
mhkohne@discordia.org contributes: techno.discordia.org (our router), and fnord.discordia.org (but you can't see that one)
lothlorien.ncsa.uiuc.edu--NCSA SDG is working on a group of tolkien machines in the X group, including isengard, shire, fangorn and others. NSCA also has bigbooty.ncsa.uiuc.edu. The math department at UIUC has brands of beer eg. sharps.math.uiuc.edu, michelob, miller. (Thanks to swetland@floyd.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Brian J. Swetland))
email to superman@up.up.and.away.com, curt.corbain@blown.away.com, curt.corbain@undead.com, elvis@undead.com, up@night.com, out@night.com, and floyd@up.the.left.side.com will get someplace. Thanks to Matt (matt@go.away.com)
right.back@you.com (Thanks to cmv@inforamp.net (Colin Viebrock))
confuse-a-cat.com (from the Monty Python skit...) and don_quixote@rocinante.com (Rocinante was Don Quixote's horse...) thanks to Chris H. Kurtz (chk@primenet.com)
weareb.org
kobayashi-maru.homeport.org
chainsaw.forestry.umt.edu (Thanks to spurl@bigsky.net (Scott Perl))
command.com (Thanks to erik@softaid.net (Erik Hanson))
most.weird.com (Thanks to toomas@qtp.ufl.edu (Toomas Tamm))
dogbert.res.wpi.edu (Thanks to felicity@eclectic.res.wpi.edu (Theo Van Dinter))
Monks can't seem to get enough of high technology -- first they released chart-topping Gregorian chants. Now they've scrambled on the net! pax.osb.hu serves the Ordo Sancte Benedicti monastery and boarding school in Hungary.
geeksrus.com (Thanks to Tom@Negrino.com)
straight.outta.compton.org (Thanks to root@robsession.interstate.net (Chris))
animaniacs fans run rampant at utexas, with yakko, wakko, dot, hello-nurse, katie-kaboom, pinky, and brain.cs.utexas.edu. (Thanks to rodney@cs.utexas.edu)
in a similar vein, WPI follows movie themes such as Buckaroo Bonzai: planet10.wpi.edu, buckaroo.wpi.edu, rajeesh, bigboote, etc and the Blues Brothers (jake and elwood), the cartoon lab has goofy, snowhite, taz, etc...
warn-is-just-like-die-except-that-it-doesnt.iguana.be
lying-naked-in-the-periwinkle.mit.edu, uuuuuu.u6.org (Thanks to mkgray@MIT.EDU (Matthew K Gray))
warez.org (software piracy association)
free-oj.org (self explanatory :-)
cert.com (a cert spoof)
rubbers.org (society for wearable condoms)
paranoid.org (just because we are paranoid)
monitored.org
net-free-or-die.org
gimme.mutha.fuckin.warez.clever.net (Thanks to antix@www.one.net)
in-and-out.com
hackers.org
redbox.newhackcity.net (thanks to sciri@newhackcity.net (Digital Grindage))
nudist.org
devnull.cis.temple.edu
multiple.org (Thanks to eha@itn.is (Elias Halldor Agustsson))
my-hostname-is-longer-than-yours.MIT.EDU (Thanks to cat@mit.edu (Calista E Tait))
boneless-skinless-chicken-breast.frozen.com (Thanks to lkoenig@MR.Net (Lon Koenig))
spaceheater.brownout.com
locutus@of.The-B.org (Thanks to cjas@pobox.com (Craig Stacey))
mail to elders@zion.org user@domain.com, cthulhu@necronomi.com, someone@nowhere.com, alice@wonderland.stanford.edu and foo@bar.com will actually go somewhere, I'm told.
fubar.cs.montana.edu
vo.mit.edu, dam.mit.edu (Thanks to bill@b62772.student.cwru.edu (Bill Nottingham))
gary.cooper.edu (Thanks to Gedalia Pasternak)
dogbert.svl.trw.com
lebigmac.com; marcia.hercules.com, kato.hercules.com, lance.hercules.com, akita.hercules.com, oj.hercules.com (Thanks to drhodes@hercules.com)
left.wing.org and arpa.net (Thanks to ches@research.att.com)
mayo.nais.com, dijon.nais.com, bern.nais.com (Thanks to Dave Lanton <dlanton@nais.com>)
optim.ism.net, despot.ism.net, parallel.ism.net and sch.ism.net (Thanks to rye@selway.umt.edu (Ryan Snyder))
no-sir-i-did-not-see-you-playing-with-your-dolls-again.ai.mit.edu
uu.uu.uu.pobox.com (double-u, double-u, double-u ... *groan*)
deadhackers.cia.net (old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes.)
tick.cs.unlv.edu, tock.cs.unlv.edu (NTP time servers. Thanks to Nathan Silva <nathans@mtrx.com>)
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_Now_I_know_my_ABCs.yikes.com
electro.cute.fi (Thanks to zamir@xgw.fi (Sami Reimavuo))
didnt.doit.wisc.edu (Thanks to rps8@psu.edu (Ralf Southard))
home.team.org
suicide.guru.sub.de
kill-o-zap.amug.org
padded.sel.cam.ac.uk (A student's computer at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, UK)
silly.com
diplomatic.passport.ca
pearly-gates.vatican.com
atdot.ind.wpi.edu (try giving out your email address @ that hostname)
beavis.fire.com, butthead.fire.com, this_sucks.fire.com, huh_huh.fire.com, cornholio.fire.com, fire.fire.com
ude.tim.ia.ung.gnu.ai.mit.edu, big-festering-pus-filled-sores.mit.edu, tetrahydrocannabinol.mit.edu, masticated-neo-bohemian-cthuloid.mit.edu
ada-95-YOU-WILL.intrepid.com, ada-95-will-take-over-the-world.Intrepid.COM
I-made-this-hostname-just-to-get-into-coolhosts-html.blackdown.org
devnull.ping.de
I-want-Uma-Thurman-to-spin-on-my-johnson.blackdown.org
clever.ping.com, pong.ping.com
cute.cute.fi, ugly.cute.fi
u-sure-r-nosey.ucsc.edu (found en route during traceroute ucscb.ucsc.edu)
com.com.com
imageek.york.cuny.edu
twilight_zone.cosmic.com
microsoft.is.lame.org, intel.is.lame.org, ibm.is.lame.org fat-chix.are.lame.org, you.are.lame.org, i.am.lame.org
defenestration.dorm.umd.edu
geeks.org
squeamish-ossifrage.mit.edu (if you don't know RSA, you don't know this)
warez.dsnet.com (hint: nslookup)
venus.twu.edu (texas womens university, that is)
dons_most_incredible_compaq_laptop.mo.nrcs.usda.gov
anxiety-closet.mit.edu, bloody-chainsaw.mit.edu
sci.fi
widomaker.widomaker.com
bullsh.iit.edu, chickensh.iit.edu, no-sh.iit.edu
waynesworld.ucsd.edu
deep-thought.tstc.edu, surf.tstc.edu
tragically.hip.berkeley.edu, dislocated.hip.berkeley.edu, broken.hip.berkeley.edu
tyrell.net
tcpip.net
dysfunctional-relationship.ecst.csuchico.edu
governmentally-induced.paranoia.com
unknown?.cpd.tandem.com
crispy-wheats-n-chicken.ai.mit.edu
sploding-pig.gnu.ai.mit.edu (acknowledgements to piglet)
bloody-nut-bran.gnu.ai.mit.edu (acknowledgements to piglet)
piglet.anderson.com (is anderson consulting a secret front for the church of piglet?)
this-is-so-incredibly-long-that-it-violates-RFC1123.cbi.tamucc.edu
ohsaycan.ucc.american.edu
neuromancer.hacks.arizona.edu, wintermute.hacks.arizona.edu
tibet.yak.net
wiretap.spies.com, goonsquad.spies.com
rtfm.mit.edu

Vulgar

Prissy people, don't read.

cuny@lingua.cltr.uq.edu.au (pronounce cltr out loud ... :)-- the "real name" in the password file is "Mister Root". In Australian slang (and perhaps English slang too), "root" means to fuck, though it's not as rude as the F word. It's about equivalent to "screw". (Thanks to root@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au)
get.fucked.com, blowme.com (Thanks to eric@yikes.com)
nobody.fux.with.the.goddman.mutha.fucking.mafia.com (Thanks to overlord@kuai.se (Mattias Ahnberg))
who.the.fuck.wants.to.buy.from.micros0ft.com, bill.gates.can.suck.my.left.nut.micros0ft.com
pussy.org (feline association of san diego)
fucked.com (For UnLawful Cardinal Knowledge Education Division)
niggah.org (national information gateway for general accounting and holdings)
j00.org (the above, up to pussy.org, thanks to jason@pussy.org (Jason Matthews))
buck.naked.com, buttnugget.org, lame-things.s.uck.org,
you.S.UCK.org

Remember the guys at Riddler, where

I'm red metal on the outside,
Brown liquid on the inside,
Caffeine and sugar define me.
Classic or New, I'm the Real Thing.

wlll come out to something incomprehensible like "O.J. Simpson" for a whopping 1500ドル? They want to use this page in their upcoming race. Since I agree that Internet Advertising is an unavoidable future, I've wimped out and, well, here you go, you click-happy little feverish websurfers.

why are you playing Riddler with lynx?

Colophon

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Oh, and one other thing -- if your suggestion isn't used, please don't take it personally. After all, if I didn't reject some suggestions, this page would be a lot less useful, wouldn't it?

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