Online without any knowledge

[Carrie Brown]

we are on there, but our details are incorrect and there is no link or option to change them? free advertising, I can’t complain.

Carrie 😀

[Dave Bruce]

Yep I’m there too don’t mind though the more places the better.

Dave

[Simon Clayton]

Me too

[storeinet]

nope not on there, seems like Wales is not part of the UK.

Dan

[magpie]

Just in case anyone wants to contact the folks behind this….

Whois Record:
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Registrant:
Arrow Internet
54 Enfield Close
Birmingham, West Mids B23 5SE
GB
Domain name: UK-SIGNS.NET
Administrative Contact:
Watson, Tim tim@arrow-uk.net
54 Enfield Close
Birmingham, West Mids B23 5SE
GB
+441213509966
Technical Contact:
Watson, Tim tim@arrow-uk.net
54 Enfield Close
Birmingham, West Mids B23 5SE
GB
+441213509966
Registration Service Provider:
UK Reg, domains@fasthosts.co.uk
+44 1452 541252
+44 1452 538485 (fax)
http://www.ukreg.com/
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 01-Jul-2004.
Record expires on 03-Mar-2005.
Record created on 03-Mar-2004.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS0.MYDNSSERVER.CO.UK
NS1.MYDNSSERVER.CO.UK
Domain status: REGISTRAR-LOCK

If your not listed, drop ’em a line

[Debbie Astle]

Dan,

I think you’ll find Wales on page 2

Debbie

[Peter Normington]

yes we are on same as you dewi dont remember anyone asking, but like carrie says free advertsing carry on

lynn

[storeinet]

Thanks Debbie.

Did not see page 1 hidden under Ayrshire,

So yep i’m there as well.

Dan

[Brian Little]

yep Dewi im on there but incorrect details …old phone number if my “x” answers it itll be a miracle !!

[Bill Dewison]

It has me kind of puzzled as to where Tim has got our information from, its highly unlikely he’s got it from UKSB, so I cross referenced the companies listed with the yellow pages. Not everyone who is the yellow pages is on that website, so I cross referenced with the Thompson Local. It matched.

If my theories correct, he’s bought a mailing list from the Thompson Local, then compiled a website with all our companies on. It is bizarre though as it doesn’t seem to serve a purpose. There aren’t any major advertisers on there, the information is available already from the Thompsons and although I’ve tried several searches, it doesn’t seem to be too prominent in the search engines. 🙄

Very wierd :dance4:

Cheers, Dewi

[Carrie Brown]

Could be a signmaker-spotter or a signmaker anorak 😉

Carrie 😀 :lol1:

[Peter Normington]

there are many ways to build a directory.
Thomsons probably copied yellow pages to start with,
First they publish the directory, then work through their list to convince you to buy a better listing than just a line. Scoot did it about 8 years ago, every man and his dog were in the data base. But if you want to get to the top of the list you gotta pay. just like any search engine.
expect a phone call or email soon from them
Peter

[Robert Lambie]

scoot came into us years ago.. they told us all the stats, costs and extras to get an advert on the right as a flash image blah blah blah
they went onto to say that prior customers with exact same advert but motionless were getting 7-10 calls a week!
they convinced us, (easy to do when the net was so new at the time)
we took the best ad space. flash image linking to contact details and all that jazz… on it went, i did a search, up it came. did another, up it came again, thought great stuff as this was just for our county area. 1 year on we never had one phone call never mind a sale.
in comes the guy to renew it…. *$%£(*&^^*I :nag2:

never to be seen again :lol1:

[Bill Dewison]

Sign-spotter :lol1: :lol1:

Peter, I think Thompsons were the distributing agent for Yellow Pages and they had a little bit of a falling out. Thompsons then set up on their own to compete with Yellow Pages. Not overly sure whether its an urban myth, but thats what I was told.

I was thinking the same though, we will all soon be plagued 😕 Ahh well, thanks to Pete (Magpie) we now have Tim’s phone number, just incase 😀 Wonder if he needs a sign?

Cheers, Dewi

[Peter Normington]

quote Dewi:

It is bizarre though as it doesn’t seem to serve a purpose.

The purpose it serves dewi is to sell you advertising space.
As you already sussed.
this is a good subject for a new thread so starting one now
peter & lynn

[storeinet]

Companies like Thompson Local run 100’s of web directories, then inter-link them to boost there rankings within the search engines.

uk sign net is possibly on of the sister/sub directories aimed at boosting the ranking of the main Thompson Local directory.

Dan