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Some (unknown) person registered the domains thesunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.com a few days ago. ( http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesun
by v21 15y ago
Some (unknown) person registered the domains thesunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.com a few days ago. ( http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunda... )
And a few weeks ago Rebekah Brooks announced that editorial roles would be merged between the Sun and the News of the World. ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jun/28/newsinternational-rebekahwade?CMP=twt_gu http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jun/28/newsi... )
So I think Ken Clarke said it when he said: "All they're going to do is rebrand it." ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070856 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070856 )
- CraigRood 15y agoI've seen this, but It doesn't make sense to me why they would use 1&1 as the registrar. If you look at other News Int properties you will see that they have their own registrar capabilities.
- v21 15y agoNot sure - it may indeed not have been them. But it may have been done for reasons of plausible deniability, or by a different set of people than normally handle DNS stuff, or it was just a canny domain-squatter. (was also registered with 123-reg, for the record) Also, it would be The Sun On Sunday, not the Sunday Sun, as that already exists: http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/ http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoLosing the brand is a significant act - the largest-selling in Britain. I would expect they would try to save what was worthwhile from the company, as any loyal employer would.
- v21 15y agoWhy, yes it is. But less important to them than losing the BSkyB merger. Or, it would seem, Rebekah Brooks. And the paper was largely finished by this point. No advertisers, no readers, an utterly tarnished brand... But yes, the Beeb has just reported that employees will be placed at other titles within NI. But I would be surprised if they didn't still lose some headcount. After all, most newspapers have been trying to shed employees the last few years. The announcement that they were going to merge some functions between The Sun and the News Of The World was largely motivated by that.
- speckledjim 15y ago> No advertisers, no readers, an utterly tarnished brand... hmm where do you get that from? All sources point to NOTW having the highest readership of any sunday paper. eg http://www.nrs.co.uk/toplinereadership.html http://www.nrs.co.uk/toplinereadership.html
- cstross 15y agoYesterday's news: "Procter & Gamble, Asda and Tesco consider pulling News of the World ads Coca-Cola GB and other major brands voice concerns as Halifax, Co-op, Vauxhall and Virgin Hollidays join ad exodus" -- The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-world-advertising http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-worl... Let me emphasize, that was yesterday. The trickle turned into a flood and then a tsunami today: by the time NewsCorp announced the closure of "News of the World" they only had one major advertiser left on board.
- speckledjim 15y agoHow did I know you'd be citing the Grauniad... They have by far the highest readership of any sunday paper. That wouldn't evaporate overnight.
- regularfry 15y agoThe readers don't pay for the paper. The advertisers do.
- speckledjim 15y agoFWIW, The paper costs £1, so with a readership of 7 million or so every week... That's around £350m / year. The top advertiser, Sky, spends £2m a year with the paper. So I find it hard to believe that advertisers are all that important.
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- AlexMuir 15y agoThey'll call it The Sunday surely? Both .com and .co.uk are available (privately).
- v21 15y agoYou might be right: http://sunday.co.uk http://sunday.co.uk