.Net Magazine Fail

[retired_member34]

An article in this month's .net magazine pro section has a sidebar titled "This month's recommended...Common TLD suffixes". They list .me, .uk.com (which they state is 3rd in most people's minds behind .com and .co.uk!!) and .biz.

Simply reinforced why I stopped buying the magazine some months ago.

 

[Bailey]

I can imagine how that survey was conducted.

Please list each of the domains from a 'list shown' as you feel most common association or familiarity - something along those lines (taken from 200 Joe Soaps outside the publishers offices)

 

[Edwin]

The magazine's hardly fit for wrapping (silicon) chips, let alone to be taken seriously... though sadly A) that's the best the market offers in the UK (depressing thought) and B) probably far too many people DO take it seriously!

 

[Bailey]

And Joe Soaps mind-play at work - don't forget his not actually accessing the internet or clicking links at this time. I don't mean any of it to be insulting - just a humorous (out of contextal use) reality check

Com / .co.uk Obvious 1 & 2

.Biz = means "business" don't it - gonna look stupid if I don't choose that one

.uk.com = Definate It's either that one or that earlier .co.uk thingy

.me = Got to be about me - bit like the new facebook init

.Org = (global or uk) Na I don't do Charity work

.info = one of those tourist things like the "Information centres"

.Net = yep all those bods and Nods at work - nothing to do with me

 

[rob]

BS mag, stopped reading it probably in about 2002

I am guessing its still rammed with fasthosts ads?

 

[newguy]

Never even started reading it, which is beginning to look like a good decision .

 

[Bailey]

I use to get it for free, along with Computer world and about half a dozen others.

To cut a long story short - The Company I registered ' Visual***' (many will recognise)many moons ago evidently was a long standing Company in Jersey that didn't ,for what ever reason take hold of the domains. I wasn't aware - but almost immediately I'm getting associated - Free periodicals, subscriptions etc.

I even thought maybe they know and recognised new-blood. - Anyway I knew when the .net mag hit the mat (Think yellow pages dropping on your mat - monthly) Computer world and computer weekly always sounded like lots of plastic wrapper, Nothing else.

Still I appreciated the freebies - Now after posting a Few Cloud related topics here and there, I'm Invited to a "free lunch" hosted by a Known Storage Co (I know it's a sales pitch) - I'm soo tempted to accept , Stand-up at my turn - and say:- "The Starters had us all fooled - but the Lamb....."

 

[aZooZa]

The last paper magazine I ever subscribed to was 'Boardwatch' in the late '80s. Anyone remember it? My modem phone bills were horrendous

It started life as a BBS/Sysop directory and then with the take-up of the internet, morphed into an ISP list.

http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2003/02/07/boardwatch-magazine-sold-again/

 

[bensd]

BS mag, stopped reading it probably in about 2002

I am guessing its still rammed with fasthosts ads?

Yup! Stopped reading it a couple of years ago however, picked up a copy last month - glad I saved the money as I wasn't impressed!

 

[jasman]

Weird that they would list those extensions. Almost as if they are being paid to promote them.

I've never bought the mag anyway. Certainly won't now. Bring back Zzap!64!!!

 

[disruptive]

Ah those computer magazines. I loved typing spectrum games in or treating myself to a tape. Awesome times on a saturday morning in WH Smiths seeing what I can find. Miss those days of trying bits of code and learning what they do. It was a lot of fun indeed.

Felix Dennis was one of the computer magazine pioneers. Look him up if you want to read some funny quotes or even his poetry nowadays.

 

[edo]

Sadly, I'm vaguely addicted to buying .net even though I only really ever read the yellow e-commerce/business section near the back of the mag.

I find there's usually one crumb of information in that section that's worth knowing that justifies the horrible £6 price tag.

I really should stop buying it though.

Ed

 

[mally]

Cheaper by subscription .Net Magazine Subscription works out about £3.50 each or so

 

[Mrs Biscuit]

I used to subscribe to .Net back in 2000 when I was just starting out on the internet. I got all kinds of useful advice on there, like buy domains from EasySpace and even host with them too! Stupidly I believed all this "advice" - and paid the price for it afterwards.

They trundled out the same "experts" every month and gave away CDRoms which never seemed to be of much use or value. In any case, you could get the same info, opinions, and freebies online long before the mag came out. I unsub'd fairly early on.

Then, many years later, I received a copy of the mag from a friend who thought it might interest me. Unfortunately, it didn't.