4 March (Part 1) - Has-PhilipRead-gone-Bonkers.com
I should have explained what
yesterday’s item was is all about and saved a few
enquiring emails. It is information cut and pasted from a web page discovered by a Google
search for Bexley is Bonkers. It shows that someone called Philip Read from Erith paid a company called Fasthosts £9·49 plus VAT last week to register for
him a so-called Top Level Domain, a dot com in this case. A Top Level Domain is
considered more prestigious than a mere co dot uk but carries with it extra
liabilities. One of these is that every detail relating to the registrant must
be displayed on-line. Inevitably search engines will soon pick it up, hence the
address details displayed below.
In my opinion it is the height of folly to register any domain using an
email address of any value as its appearance on a website is a guaranteed way to
attract spam, but the cat is out of the bag and it’s now available in a
variety of places. I have slightly mangled it here as I would not want to make
the problem worse but its inclusion does imply a certain degree of naivety in such matters.
At the present time there is no indication that any email address or web page is
associated with bexley-is-bonkers.com but presumably that will come, otherwise
what is the point? Neither do I have any idea why councillor Philip Read has
made this move; all I can say about it is that I am delighted by the fact that
Philip has joined the growing band of councillors who have acknowledged this
site in one way or another.