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Should I tell them?
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There is an estate agent in my local newspaper who has advertised [email protected] for the last couple of years now
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The best I've ever come across still has to be this thread
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You could email them, after all their email address is... oh... ah... hmm...
BTW, their website is a who's who of bad SEO choices, from a strange meta refresh to a flash splash page. Ho-hum...
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http://[email protected]/ this is an old school thing that people used to do its a perfectly valid domain 
I used to use it to track where people had come from, htt://[email protected], a big car company used it a few years, it was like [email protected] or something like that. Unfortunately browsers these days are springing up warning about embedded usernames and such like.
I used to use it to track where people had come from, htt://[email protected], a big car company used it a few years, it was like [email protected] or something like that. Unfortunately browsers these days are springing up warning about embedded usernames and such like.
Just took a look, that is my main internet pet hate
' I've just put your address in to my browser > of course I want to visit your fu**ing site'That's like a shop having a locked door and a sign saying turn the key to enter
LBE, get 'em told, it's very poor marketing, including the flash intro.
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that's because phishers were using things like www.banknamehere.com/plausible/looking/path/that/is/so/long/you/dont/notice/the/[email protected] to try to catch people out.
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http://[email protected]/ this is an old school thing that people used to do its a perfectly valid domain
I used to use it to track where people had come from, htt://[email protected], a big car company used it a few years, it was like [email protected] or something like that. Unfortunately browsers these days are springing up warning about embedded usernames and such like.
My emboldened.... my browser didn't spring up a warning
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It works for sites that use HTTP authentication in Firefox.
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You can still use it for ftp sites normally instead of using a client http://user:[email protected] SHOULD be a valid domain in all browsers, as its making an ftp comnection through a browser if not ftp://user:[email protected] must be.
ITs often used in low-jack member downloads.
What always make me laugh is that // isn't needed.
http:www.acorndomains.co.uk is a valid link too.
The specs are so mutated its insane.
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ITs often used in low-jack member downloads.
What always make me laugh is that // isn't needed.
http:www.acorndomains.co.uk is a valid link too.
The specs are so mutated its insane.
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My emboldened.... my browser didn't spring up a warning
My Firefox browser said something like "turn back - do not enter - dragons ahead" or similar - quite shocking that any company would knowingly use an address that was so obviously problematic.
To plagiarise one of Edwin's mottos, some companies don't get it.
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My guess would be that someone displaying their web address like that, probably hasn't heard of Analytics.
So... did you tell them?
So... did you tell them?
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I was going to, but they had "disappeared" when I tried to find them although the van was still there. They will probably be back again today (neighbours house).
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