Monday, March 29, 2010

the directgov rss feed



Anyone know what theclubuk.com is or why its url is squirted into every URL in the Directgov RSS feed?

2 comments:

Ray said...

whois info on theclubuk.com:

Whois Record
Registrant Search:
"Xansa" owns about50 other domains

Domain Name.......... theclubuk.com
Creation Date........ 2005-09-06
Registration Date.... 2005-09-06
Expiry Date.......... 2010-09-06
Organisation Name.... Xansa
Organisation Address. 420 Thames Valley Park Drive
Organisation Address. Thames Valley Park
Organisation Address. Reading
Organisation Address. RG6 1PU
Organisation Address. Berkshire
Organisation Address. GREAT BRITAIN (UK)

Xansa is part of Steria UK

Xansa wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xansa

Steria, the parent company, is an IT services/outsourcing company:

http://www.steria.co.uk/about-steria.html

Thus, it looks like directgov have outsourced their RSS (etc?) to this company

They appear to be based just down the road from me, apropos of nothing really.

Uncle Marvo said...

Good Lord.

XANSA, used to be F-International. Mostly Indians now, used to be all women when I was a lad.

Rat smell.

I am looking into this, I thought we were supposed to be

1) saving money and
2) British Jobs etc etc

Hm