Slaid Cleaves Knows His Name is Hard to Spell

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Texas singer-songwriter registers typos to compensate for difficult name.

One of my favorite singer-songwriters is Austin resident Slaid Cleaves. This weekend I went online to buy tickets to his CD release party this coming Saturday, and noticed something interesting.

I didn’t know his web address, so I typed in his name but I misspelled it. I couldn’t remember if his name was spelled Slaid or Slade. It forwarded to the correctly spelled SlaidCleaves.com. That’s smart, but it turns out Cleaves and his team are even smarter than that. They registered several misspellings of his name including:

SladeCleaves.com
SlaidCleaves.com
SladeCleeves.com
SlaidCleeves.com

All of these domains forward to his main site at SlaidCleaves.com. He even owns Slaid.com.

It’s rare to see an artist think about domain names beyond registering a domain for a web site. So my hat’s off to Slaid, and my wife and I look forward to hearing you Saturday night.

Photo credit: Karen Cleaves.

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  1. Latest Domainer News
    May 11th, 2009 | 10:13 am

    Slaid Cleaves Knows His Name is Hard to Spell – http://tinyurl.com/psoy99

  2. charlie
    May 11th, 2009 | 12:49 pm

    Nothin’ like a Brokedown tune. :) Good information.

  3. Greg
    May 11th, 2009 | 4:41 pm

    What a stud. He must have good people.

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