Introduction 

This is something I remember from 2003 or 2004: Enter the name of a video game character (.com) in the Address Bar, and see where it takes you. 

At the time, the results were unexpected and had nothing to do with video games or characters. Here is a list of some of the sites I remember, as well as some I found out about more recently.

Websites With The Same Names As Video Game Characters 

Mappy 

"Mappy" is the name of the mouse character from Namco's/Bandai Namco's '80s Arcade game of the same name. It is also the name of a map site company in France. 

DK 

No, this is not a Donkey Kong website. And it doesn't stand for "Drift King." It's a site featuring books that happens to be called "DK", short for Dorling Kindersley (named after DK's founders Christopher Dorling and Peter Kindersley).
 
Bubbleman 

A site that shares the name of a character from Mega Man 2 was used for a website about....Bubbles. 

The site is from Garry "The Bubbleman" Golightly, an entertainer who performed in children bubble shows for over forty years. 

The main page of his site has the year 1992 on it...a time when you could still rent NES games, including Mega Man 2, from video rental stores. 

Rockman Et Al Cooperative

"Rockman" is Mega Man's Japanese name, and a site from an American Education Consultant shares the same name. Even the site's address is "rockman.com". Capcom used to have a Mega Man site in the 2000s that was made to celebrate the Mega Man series' 15th Anniversary.

Kirby 

"The Kirby is more than just a Vacuum"

The Pink Puffball has the same name as Kirby Vacuum Cleaners, which have been around longer than the video game character who made his debut in 1992 with Kirby's Dream Land on Game Boy. As a result, Kirby.com does not go to the character's site. 

The official Kirby site, similar to the Super Mario site, is: https://kirby.nintendo.com/ (it used to be "kirbykirbykirby.com" in the 2000s, when the Kirby cartoon was playing) 

Mario 

"Mario.com" was probably the first site I went to that shared the same name as a video game character but didn't really have anything to do with games. When I first visited this site more than twenty years ago, all that was on the site was a message saying "Welcome to mario.com." As of this writing, the site now has a yellow background (instead of white) and has a picture.  

The address for the official Super Mario site is similar, but is not identical: https://mario.nintendo.com/

Conclusion 

MegaMan52 Blog #39 completed

This was just something that came to my mind in the early 2000s. You've played a lot of video games and know a lot of characters. Then you wonder, "do any of these characters have their own websites?" And yeah, many of them do and have had their own sites for years while other sites just happen to share the same name. 

-MegaMan52