I'm sure this was explained any moons go in here, but could someone just give me a quick note on the difference. I have just introduced Andrew Neil to gridwatch on twitter He considers himself an expert on statistics.
OT Gridwatch.co..uk v gridwatch.templar.co.uk
Jun 11, 2020
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gridwatch.org.uk and gridwatch.templar.co.uk are both the same
gradwatch.co.uk is the "imposter"
Gridwatch.co.uk is an illegal and rather poor copy of gridwatch designed to make money
Including some sort of link with Bulb Energy
gridwatch.co.uk works better on mobile...
Theo
They cold called me yesterday from an 0300. Got my usual response, and the number blocked.
As it's illegal, why is it allowed to continue?
Er, no you haven't. I did that two or three years ago.
What about
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Where would you recommend that redirected to. Perhaps a choice of the two above.
It's entirely down to who owns (or has registered) the domains, it doesn't just 'happen' that gridwatch.uk points to either of the other sites (or is an alias for them, or whatever). Whoever 'owns' gridwatch.uk can point it to whatever they like or put their own content there.
All of the above sites *could* be totally different and independent.
For a business it might make sense to hoover-up dozens of related domain names and hashtags. For a useful site like gridwatch it's nice to have
*a* domain, but if you start the numbers game, where do you stop?In message , at 09:16:56 on Sat, 25 Jul
2020, Chris Green remarked:That's answering "where would they be allowed to redirect it". My question was "where would you recommended" (and maybe even "please give your reasons").
When the .uk domains were introduce there was a period when the owner of the equivalent .co.uk had the right to register the .uk That sunrise period expired last year. So not surprising that it redirects to the .co.uk
In message , at 22:51:37 on Sat, 25 Jul
2020, DJC remarked:
And grid-watch.uk ?
How can anyone 'recommend'? I could recommend that gridwatch.uk points to gridwatch.co.uk but it would be meningless, what do you think (or expect) would happen if I did?
Ay? No. During the "period when the owner ..." the owner of the co.uk could register the .uk domain and (if they wanted) could point it to the .co.uk one. After the period anyone could register the .uk and use it as they wanted. If the .uk points to the .co.uk then someone must have registered it and set it up to point to the .co.uk one, it doesn't happen by default.
Well of course they *could*, the point is that there are not many .uk and most of those have probably been registered defensively by the owner of the .co.uk and most likely set to point to the same site. Now anyone can register the .uk and could point it wherever but why bother? People are so used to .co.uk that shown a .uk they think it must be a mistake and 'correct' it to .co.uk.
>In message , at 14:47:17 on Mon, 27 Jul
2020, Chris Green remarked:I think it's called bottom-up regulation.
I might affect Nominet policy. But having identified a typo, my question was about:
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