From 'Microwave Navels' to Broken Dreams: Every Way Autocorrect Butchers Our Domain, Ranked

Autocorrect was designed to fix small, honest mistakes — 'teh' becomes 'the,' 'adn' becomes 'and.' It was not designed for what happens when you ask it to process iamtheproudownerofthelongestlongestlongestdomainnameinthisworld.com. We did it anyway. For science. For content. For you.

S Tier: The Fridge

Yes, we typed our domain into a 2014 smart refrigerator with a built-in keyboard. The fridge did not autocorrect our domain. The fridge autocorrected our lives, suggesting we 'order more milk.' Honestly? Respect. The only device in America that looked at our URL and responded with groceries is the only device that understood the assignment.

A Tier: The Smartwatch

Typing our domain on a 44mm watch face is less data entry and more interpretive dance. The watch's predictive text eventually offered 'I am proud owner of the longest longest longest domain name in this world,' which is technically correct and emotionally devastating. It knew. It always knew.

B Tier: Android's Bold Guesses

Android fought valiantly. Midway through 'domainnameinthisworld,' it offered 'domainnameinthisworried,' which is honestly the most accurate autocorrect in history. Another attempt produced 'longestlongestlongest' intact, then suggested we meant 'loneliest.' Android, buddy, sometimes both things are true.

C Tier: The iPhone Classic

iOS delivered the crowd favorite: 'iamtheproudownerofthelongestlongestlongestdomainnameinthisworld' was corrected, at the final word, to 'inthisworId' with a capital I. A single character, rendered meaningless. It's like painting the Sistine Chapel and signing it 'Sistine Chaple.'

D Tier: The Heartbreak Zone

The bottom of our list belongs to the submissions that hurt the most:

• 'microwavenavels.com' — a reader submission from Tulsa that we have not stopped thinking about since
• 'longlonglongestdomainnameintheworldbutmakeitfashion.com' — ambitious, wrong, iconic
• One reader's phone replaced the entire domain with 'okay buddy' and refused to elaborate

Submit Your Own Casualty

Our live-updating Hall of Autocorrect Horrors is now open. Send us what your keyboard did to our domain. The worst submission each month wins a sticker so long it legally cannot be described as a sticker.

The Moral of the Story

Every autocorrect failure is proof of something we've always known: our domain doesn't fit in the algorithm's world, so we're building our own. One 'microwave navel' at a time.