Idiots at The Times

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Francko replied

17 December 2009, 12:25
Originally posted by sasguru View Post

Funny neither does http://theska.co.uk/ take you to the SKA

AtW business grew up a lot recently...

http://ska.com
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sasguru replied

17 December 2009, 12:11
Originally posted by AtW View Post

http://thetimes.co.uk/ does not work

Funny neither does http://theska.co.uk/ take you to the SKA
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AtW replied

17 December 2009, 12:10
Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post

That is because you want http://timesonline.co.uk/

www.thetimes.co.uk works as it should - countless of pages link back to thetimes.co.uk - only idiot IT person would not ensure that DNS works without www. bit. Amazingly this happens on very large sites
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TimberWolf replied

17 December 2009, 12:09
Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post

timesonline.com takes you to a completely different news site

So either FF knows you're in the UK or its been set to search .co.uk first or it's scanning your history for timesonline

Quite possibly. It did take longer to resolve when '.co.uk' was omitted.
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Spacecadet replied

17 December 2009, 12:07
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

'timesonline' on its own works in FF, although 'co.uk' was needed in Explorer.

timesonline.com takes you to a completely different news site

So either FF knows you're in the UK or its been set to search .co.uk first or it's scanning your history for timesonline
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NickFitz replied

17 December 2009, 12:06
Stick with gu.com
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TimberWolf replied

17 December 2009, 12:04
'timesonline' on its own works in FF, although 'co.uk' was needed in Explorer.
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Spacecadet replied

17 December 2009, 12:01
Originally posted by AtW View Post

http://thetimes.co.uk/ does not work

Just how bloody often this has to happen even for large companies - domain name won't resolve to web site IP and you have to add www.?!??!!

Too often
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Moscow Mule replied

17 December 2009, 12:01
Originally posted by AtW View Post

http://thetimes.co.uk/ does not work

Just how bloody often this has to happen even for large companies - domain name won't resolve to web site IP and you have to add www.?!??!!

That is because you want http://timesonline.co.uk/
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AtW started a topic Idiots at The Times

17 December 2009, 11:59
Idiots at The Times

http://thetimes.co.uk/ does not work

Just how bloody often this has to happen even for large companies - domain name won't resolve to web site IP and you have to add www.?!??!!
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