Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Hollywoozy

by James McNally on July 23, 2008 · 2 comments

in Web Sites

Through the won­ders of Twitter, I dis­covered today that domain name expert (and Toronto native) Bill Sweetman has offi­cially launched Hollywoozy, a blog about domain names for Hollywood movies. Bill gives the stu­dios a star rating from one to five­based on the quality of the domain name they’ve registered for each film. It’s a weird idea that just might be crazy enough to work. Haven’t you ever wondered why your favourite film’s web­site is so hard to remember, or why they have to add “movie” to everything? Hollywoozy will enlighten you.

But I have to wonder just a little about Bill’s own choice for the blog’s title and domain name. Is it mem­or­able? Sure. But does it give any clue what the blog is about? Not really. I guess it was better than HollywoodMoviesDomainNamesRatings.com.

Kidding aside, I am glad that not only is this an inter­esting corner of the film mar­keting world to cover (this will join Chris Thilk’s Movie Marketing Madness blog in my Google Reader feeds), but that Bill can use this poten­tially enter­taining sub­ject to edu­cate people a little about naming domains.

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