After working in Local Government IT support for 10 years, I would say 99%
of users don't look at the URLs they click on, perhaps other than to check
it is not a triple-x domain. When we did penetration testing and sent test
phishing e-mails it was possible to get people in authority to enter their
user names and passwords into all sorts of weird domains, which of course
were set up for the purpose of testing and under our control.
Checking the Nominet rules ".co.uk" and ".org.uk" are open domains so make
no assumptions about the applicants status so either are appropriate for
Museums...
Dave Wade
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Tony Crockford
> Sent: 04 December 2015 09:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Non-standard domain suffixes
>
> > On 4 Dec 2015, at 09:46, James Grimster <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > as a member of the public, which would you trust most to least ...
.gov.uk >
> .org.uk > .co.uk ?
>
> define trust.
>
> As an internet user I'm more likely to trust a site based on its content,
than
> its url. The credentials of the author have more significance for me,
than the
> url on which the content is written.
>
> Clearly .gov.uk is the voice of officialdom, but that doesn't mean I would
> trust it.
>
> :o)
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