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Hello Mike While I can understand your point of view I don't think that it is a matter of stealing customers. What I think is happening is an effort to gain access to people who would otherwise not visit the site. Regards David ----------------------------- David Bell Chief Technician Department of Psychology Glasgow Caledonian University 70 Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G4 0BA Tel : 0141 331 3954 E-mail : [log in to unmask] Fax : 0141 331 3636 Mobile : 07812 150056 > ---------- > From: Mike McConnell > Reply To: Mike McConnell > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 16:58 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Desperately Seeking Facts ... > > Hi Nicola, > > In my opinion multiple URL registering for HEIs is a waste of time - who > would want to pass themselves off as e.g. the University of Aberdeen? And > if they did, what customers would they steal from us? > > As you noted in your first email, misrepresentation is already a > recognised > crime. > > Regards, > > Mike > > PS: Don't forget 'Real Names' in your URL-seeking behaviour study.... > > At 16:14 26/10/2001 +0100, you wrote: > >On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Andrew Aird wrote: > > > > > We are considering registering more and more variants of our name > (although > > > many are taken including http://www.kingscollegelondon.com/ which > > > mysteriously goes to an Escort Agency!). However, I think the key to > > this is > > > getting more and better inward links and better results on search > engines. > > > >We are looking into the same kind of issues here ... as far as I can > tell, > >there's only one UK university that has really gone into mass domain > >registering, and the rest of us have one or two variants, if that. > > > >Looking elsewhere, corporates like Microsoft and the BBC have very few > >variants registered. Which leads me to wonder why. Possible reason could > >be down to marketing / branding and not wanting to weaken the main > >publicised url, or perhaps they think that people are likely to source > >them via search engines, in which case the need for registering > >alternatives becomes redundant. > > > > > As far as figures go, I for one always try to 'guess' a URL when I'm > > looking > > > for something new, before going off to Google or whatever. Perhaps you > > could > > > do a quick survey on this list. > > > >Perhaps I will ... can I ask why you try to guess. Spirit of adversity, > >adventure, or Something Else ...??? > > > >Nicola > > > ------------ > Mike McConnell > Web Team Manager > [log in to unmask] > http://www.abdn.ac.uk/web > > University of Aberdeen > Directorate of Information Systems and Services > Edward Wright Building > Dunbar Street > Aberdeen > AB 24 3UF > Tel: +44 (0)1224 27 2602 > Fax: +44 (0)1224 27 3372 > >