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August 3, 2009 4:34 pm
marco: Network Solutions renames their services for added obscurity: You see Network Solutions has decided that the service called “Domain” was much too obscure and difficult to understand and so it’s much clearer if we now call it “nsWebAddress”. Huh? Also, “Web Site” was so obscure that it was better changed to “nsSpace” or “nsBusinessSpace”. And you know those “SSL Certificates”? Well, that was way too confusing, so let’s call them “nsProtect”. Ah, Network Solutions… this sure looks like a better way to serve our needs, like you’ve always strived for in the past. Please tell me this ns has nothing to do with NeXT Step or NeXT Software because I just dont see the connection

marco:

Network Solutions renames their services for added obscurity:

You see Network Solutions has decided that the service called “Domain” was much too obscure and difficult to understand and so it’s much clearer if we now call it “nsWebAddress”. Huh?

Also, “Web Site” was so obscure that it was better changed to “nsSpace” or “nsBusinessSpace”. And you know those “SSL Certificates”? Well, that was way too confusing, so let’s call them “nsProtect”.

Ah, Network Solutions… this sure looks like a better way to serve our needs, like you’ve always strived for in the past.

Please tell me this ns has nothing to do with NeXT Step or NeXT Software because I just dont see the connection

  1. erbmicha reblogged this from marco and added:
    Someone needs to be dragged out into the street, hung from a lamp post, set on fire and beaten like a piñata for this…
  2. mike3k reblogged this from marco and added:
    At first I thought this was from The Onion.
  3. timoni reblogged this from marco
  4. internetrandomness reblogged this from marco and added:
    Seems like someone at Network Solutions likes Objective-C a little too much.
  5. complex reblogged this from marco and added:
    For any of you planning on buying a domain name and/or hosting, don’t support Network Solutions. They charge inflated...
  6. lkm reblogged this from clint and added:
    Basically, we took common words everyone understood perfectly well...REPLACED THEM WITH...
  7. whitneymcn reblogged this from marco and added:
    Fuck! I was going to use the names “nsSpace” AND “nsBusinessSpace” as a way to create utterly arbitrary, meaningless...
  8. artsmonkey reblogged this from morrowplanet and added:
    LOL you’re funny!
  9. blogofastudent reblogged this from marco and added:
    Please tell me this ns has nothing to do with NeXT Step or NeXT Software because I just dont see the connection
  10. clint reblogged this from marco and added:
    thousands of people spoke out about these confusing terms...“Domain” and “Web Site”:
  11. jacque reblogged this from marco and added:
    Wow, I had really thought this was a joke for about 5 minutes. I don’t know what’s more terrible, their switching to...
  12. morrowplanet reblogged this from marco and added:
    Listen guys, if my nsSpace™ is down for any reason, and it looks like it might be a problem with my nsHosting™, please...
  13. colinster reblogged this from marco
  14. jeffrock reblogged this from marco and added:
    I smell middle management. So Network Solutions thought changing SSL Certificate (a noun) to nsProtect (a verb) would be...
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