Andy,
I think you lose the plot here at this point Patrick.
Just a little tongue-in-cheek for a change this Sunny Wellington weekend; I'll get back to me-the-formal-person if you prefer.
...Everytime without fail.
It would have been good to have received feedback like this formally earlier if it is giving yourself and your customers grief. Any reason why it was not forthcoming?
How about adding A and MX records to the domains.net.nz zone so those poor unfortunates than can spell correctly get taken to the D0mainz site anyway?
Yes, we hold the domains.net.nz (with an 's"), and it is a relatively simple task to forward all mail from there to the correct address. Interestingly we used to do that some whilst back, but the level of email coming in from the that domain was not significant -- so we took away the mail box. We will put it back in and monitor, thanks for the suggestion, always happy to try out good suggestions..
Thus both "domainz" is a stupid choice...
Andy, pleased to receive your opinion, but I guess we need to agree to differ. When we talk to Registrars in the States, they have no problem spelling Domainz with a "Zee" ;-) I suppose I could make the same argument about "twocows.com", or was it "2cows.com". However, they do not seem that bothered over their choice, and I never herd of their customers complaining in droves ;-) Maybe, in the not too distant future, we will all be able to look back in hindsight on "CDnow.com" and say -- wasn't that a stupid choice given that there was "MP3now.com". Really, we should all blame the breakdown in rules of nomenclature on "Toys-R-Us", or was it "Bedz-R-US"., Look at what's happened since... http://www.babiesrus.com/ -- One for Joe (Congrats) http://ripsrus.retrogames.com/ -- retro!! http://www.stumps.org/mission.html -- this one's definitely not cricket http://www.netwayglobal.com/ -- this one' not what you'd imagine http://www.slutsrus.nu/ -- this one is exactly what you'd imagine http://www.reptilesrus.com/ -- someone had already registered Brontosau-R-us http://www.shrooms-r-us.com/ -- true name bastardisation if you ask me http://www.geeksrus.com/ -- catering for all tastes http://indigo.ie/~clupo/ -- and one closer to my home http://www.domainsrus.com -- and closer to my business home and wait for it, you'd never had guessed, http://www.domainzrus.com -- what a great name :) Have a wonderful weekend, See you, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:owner-nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz]On Behalf Of Andy Gardner Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 9:17 AM To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Just in case, I'm away next week
If I can stray to the less serious for a moment Joe....software piracy, denial of service attacks and pornography.
I think you lose the plot here at this point Patrick. The simple fact is, whenever we sent one of our clients to the domainz site to allow them to hunt for a suitable domain, we _always_ have to say "that's domainz with a "z" at the end, not an "s". Everytime without fail. One of the important factors in choosing a domain name (or an email address) is that it can't be easily confused with something that is more obvious when you speak the domain name. Thus both "domainz" is a stupid choice for an important web site, and "4service" is a stupid choice for an important email contact address as _b0th_ 0f them need explaining to the un-initiated. If you don't spell it out, they try to go to domains.net.nz and send email for forservice(a)domains.net.nz If you total up the amount of extra help desk time taken up because of the above, you will probably be surprised. I'd prefer it if you kept to KISS principals. How about adding A and MX records to the domains.net.nz zone so those poor unfortunates than can spell correctly get taken to the D0mainz site anyway? Up here for thinking down there for... Andrew P. Gardner Never suggest to your Mother to shop on-line for a pearl necklace. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog