It doesn’t help that the Internet gods have decided that URLs / web addresses should be treated the same as search terms. So for example, I used to have to be very specific when telling people to log into their router (at something like 192.168.1.1 or routerlogin.net) that they should type it into the address bar and not a Google or Yahoo search bar (hard to search on the web when your router isn’t set up yet). But now the browsers all want you to type in a URL or search term and let them automagically figure out what to do. Which means people no longer perceive a difference between typing Sonar or sonar.software much less www.sonar.software.
I think it’s part of the dumbing down of the Internet, everyone wants to use the Internet without even the most rudimentary understanding of how it works. I suppose the automobile industry went through that, learning how to sell what’s actually a quite complex machine to people who don’t know the difference between an engine and a transmission. And now we want cars that drive themselves. Actually that would probably be good on the Internet, if our phones would tweet and post selfies and reply to emails without requiring our constant attention. Hello, Simon’s phone, this is Ken’s phone, and he is taking a nap, but here is a photo of what he ate for lunch. From: Simon Westlake Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 9:53 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mimosa webside down? I get the 'simon@gmail' thing just because most of the people I talk to would know that gmail is a .com. The others are definitely annoying. I've even had people say things to me like 'simon@blahblah' and I've said 'ok, si...@blahblah.com?' and they reply 'no, si...@blahblah.net'. I guess some people just think their domains are more well known than they are. Or the ones where they have an email like 'jfs12fitzgerald9...@someweirdlongdomain.com' and they say it super fast like I'm going to be able to remember that. Mostly my response right now if someone tries to give me an email address verbally is just 'email me at simon@sonar.software and I'll reply!', which is a lazy response, but saves going through the above scenario. Maybe I should just get a domain like b.xyz and have my email be s...@b.xyz to help solve this for others. On 7/22/2016 9:24 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I find a high percentage of people will not say the “dot” before com. Like mailto:%E2%80%9Caf@afmugcom”. Then I have to ask whether they really are leaving out the dot, or just not saying it, that ends up being up about 50/50. Then there are the people who leave out the tld entirely, like mailto:%E2%80%9Csimon@sonar%E2%80%9Dor mailto:%E2%80%9Csimon@gmail”, and you have to ask them if they are really leaving out the “.com”, or assuming the other person knows what they mean. From: Simon Westlake Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 9:09 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mimosa webside down? The struggles we go through without having a .com domain. Everytime I read my email address to someone over the phone, they say 'ok, si...@sonar.software.com..' We're just ahead of the curve Jaime! On 7/22/2016 9:07 AM, Jaime Fink wrote: .co please! On Jul 22, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Justin Wilson <li...@mtin.net> wrote: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mimosa.com Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net --- http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric On Jul 22, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Daniel Gerlach <danielgerl...@gmail.com> wrote: thx -- Simon Westlake Skype: Simon_Sonar Email: simon@sonar.software Phone: (702) 447-1247 --------------------------- Sonar Software Inc The next generation of ISP billing and OSS https://sonar.software -- Simon Westlake Skype: Simon_Sonar Email: simon@sonar.software Phone: (702) 447-1247 --------------------------- Sonar Software Inc The next generation of ISP billing and OSS https://sonar.software
