What's in a name?

"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" (until you thrown in a different top level domain)

The UK National Schools Film Week web site url NSFW.org, is uncomfortably close to a... ah, film site that... ah... well... ah... you probably wouldn�t want kids looking at.

 That site, NSFW.com (Not Safe for Work) has a lot of films available too, however -- how does one put this -- does the slang term "pr0n" have any meaning for you?

The National Schools Film Week (NSFW) site (that�s dot-ORG) �provides teachers and their students the opportunity to see a wide range of films at local cinemas entirely free-of-charge.

�The Festival's goal is to support classroom teaching by providing schools with a powerful experience for their students that links directly to elements of the curriculum, supported by an on-line library of resources related to individual films and more generic topics, essentially an extension of the classroom.�

Now NSFW-dot-COM provides a �powerful experience� and �online library� as well.

 

Clearly, with the gift of hindsight, we can say that when you chose a name for your web site check for similar acronyms, similar names in different domains and check for sites that are just one typo away.

Actually, we just did a check. http://www.nsfw.biz/ is a penis pill site:

 

Thanks steeleweed

Tom Kelchner