How do you say our name?
July 21st, 2010 by Amber(By Amber Barbee, Marketing Director)
As you know, you can’t put spaces into a web address. If you’ve got a 2 or 3 word business name that you’d like to include, you’ve got to either smash the words together, or add hyphens.
OnlineMetals.com addressed this problem, by turning it around. We set up our domain name, and made it our official business name too. (What better way to drive traffic to the site!)
It’s one word, with 2 capital letters, and no hyphens. I like it.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t follow the general rules of our written language, so spell checkers vendors and customers have come up with some pretty amusing variations though out the years.
Here are just a few:
2 words: Online Metals The most common.
Added inventory: Online Materials Good call. We do carry more than just metal!
Hyphenated: On-Line Metals A stylized version of the word online. When I read this I think of a bunch of metal bars, stacked on top of a painted line.
SUPER abbreviated : On-Line This one’s my least favorite. Misspelled AND missing the last half. Drives me batty!
All spelled out: Online Metals Dot Com (Oldie but goodie.)
…and so on.
But today, I think I read my favorite one. I wouldn’t consider it a spelling error. More of an insight into the state of our employees!
Onlinemental.com
If you have any amusing misspellings of our company name, or yours…share em.
(Keep it clean, kids.)















