Talk:Demon Internet

Latest comment: 1 year ago by 82.17.189.85 in topic What happened to demon.co.uk

Tenner a month source

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The original CIX conference where the idea was floated was called tenner_a_month, I think --scruss 15:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC) (one of the founder members)Reply

Yup, that's right. ZoeP 01:20, 22 August 2007 (UTC) (someone else who was there)Reply

They seem to be blocking the Wayback Machine, at the momement.

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See Talk:Internet_Watch_Foundation#Demon_UK_ISP_blocking_Wayback_Machine_via_IWF.27s_blacklist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.212.134.39 (talk) 19:59, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Now apparently fixed. It seems somebody blundered. JH (talk page) 22:13, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Use of jargon in the article

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The name "Demon" came from a list of shelf names available at the time. I for one have no idea what a "shelf name" is in this context. JH (talk page) 09:49, 24 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

I think the original author meant that the name Demon came from an off-the-shelf company. But that's actually not the case. Demon Internet Limited was named after its predecessor, Demon Systems Limited, which was itself named after Demon Products, a model car racing business which still exists today at http://demonpowerproducts.co.uk/. Unfortunatly I don't have any outside reference for this. Cliff Stanford (talk) 10:01, 24 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. You should know if anyone does. :) JH (talk page) 16:18, 24 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Demon email addresses terminating summer 2016

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Additionally, demon broadband customers will 'eventually' be migrated to Vodaphone Fibre as per:

156.43.71.1 (talk) 16:07, 17 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

My demon email address, cucumber.demon.co.uk, finally terminated on 28/7/2020. Namesco had taken over the email service in 2016, but never owned the domain name, and relied on licensing its use from Vodafone. Namesco tried buying the domain many times to keep the email service going long term, but Vodafone wouldn't sell it, and finally notified Namesco it would be terminated in the summer of 2020, which it was. 81.187.1.83 (talk) 08:42, 29 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

FWIW, I also tried to buy the domain but Vodafone refused to sell.

What happened to demon.co.uk

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The web, or that part that interests me, seems to be full of dead references to subdomains of demon.co.uk. While I have, for example, found in the wayback machine that http://goban.demon.co.uk has moved to http://harryfearnley.com/, I have not been able to trace other links such as http://jklmn.demon.co.uk .

Is it possible to add a section saying what happened to demon.co.uk , and perhaps also at least some suggestions as to how to go about finding the new location of its defunct subdomains? PJTraill (talk) 20:26, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply


I think it's pretty much impossible to track down the subdomains, they'd be individual users websites (Every demon dialup user had their own subdomain under accountname.demon.co.uk - the official servers were mostly under demon.net to distinguish them from the customer pages). Some people may have migrated them elsewhere, and others would have simply let them lapse. 156.43.71.1 (talk) 18:39, 13 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
Another suggestion, that is applicable to many other site "migrations" (where only the site has changed):
Given a defunct URL such as "[1]http://www.goban.demon.co.uk/go/bestiary/zippersetc.html", you could try a google search for the filename, but omitting the site name, thus "go/bestiary/zippersetc.html" [keep the quotes!]. In this case, it works, and you get the new location -- i.e. [2]https://harryfearnley.com/go/bestiary/zippersetc.html. If you are lucky, you should get most of the rest of the opriginal site, as well!  :-) 82.17.189.85 (talk) 20:03, 29 June 2023 (UTC)Reply