Furious father sets up a website to troll his son's £28k-a-year private school

domainseller200 · Feb 28, 2017

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4266872/Father-58-abusive-school-website.html

Interesting story which involves domain names

TinkyWinky · Feb 28, 2017

Ouch - I think I can see the real reason for them wanting this pulled down.

- A big drop in A*
- A big drop in A
- Minor increases in B and C grades and a Big increase in D's

Of the A* - 3 for creative subjects and 2 for 'academic' ones. Of the A's only 14 'academic'.

If it's £28k a year (for full boarding assumed given dad was abroad) then I can't see many people rushing to send their children there! That's majorly poor for an independent school where staff

upil ratios should be half or a quarter what they are in the State system.

Maybe it's stuck in the past "Abbotsholme was founded by Scottish academic Cecil Reddie as an experiment for his progressive educational philosophies and theories".

On another point, the website shows factual and probably publicly accessible knowledge - so he should simply switch it to a .com / .org / .anything if he really wants to keep that going.

TW

Murray · Feb 28, 2017

If the domain name was: AbbotsholmeSchoolSucks.co.uk he would have been ok right? as it's not confusingly similar

Its all worked out ok for him anyway I suppose since he got the school looking bad in some national news headlines

The highest mark I got in GCSEs was a D and I don't think any school would have got me to do better; had an awful attention span at 15/16 and wasn't interested in learning, doing homework or coursework