Interesting to note that whoever is making the website is using
Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0 which tells me they are going to make a website thats not cross and backward compatible and the author doesn't know enough not to use such toys.
Supisingly though.. whoever set this up has used there brains in the domain reg department and registered all the more common TLDs such as com/net/org as well as the co.uk ... The reason you do this is to protect the domain.
If for example you have hyndburnlife.co.uk and you put a lot of resources and advertising into making it a big busy website.... whoever registers hyndburnlife.com can cash in on your success..so they protected themselves .. well done... i was gong to purchase the .com
drat!
This is going to be interesting and yes it
will be competition if they make it interactive. The regulars here may not go.. But I would use it and others would I am sure (some already say they will even if just to give em hell).. Then theres the new people on the net (thousands every crimbo) would go to the offiicial hyndburn messageboard as advertised all over hyndburn rather than a private run one.. They will be under the impression that someone from the council is reading and gives a damm what they are writing and over time will be an even bigger threat.
But.. they tried a messageboard once and gave up in less than a week... they might not try it again..... or ?
Lets wait and see...
Time to ressurect my hyndburn domain... wheres me pink crayons ..