Coolest Hostnames

• 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

• 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

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.

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