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Internet

This category houses sites that are specifically about or concerning UK usage of the internet. Sites will tend not to be placed in this category, but reside in a more specific category below this one.

Submission Notes:

1. If your site is not an internet cafe based in Northern Ireland, please do not submit to this category, but choose a more appropriate category.

2. Submitting to the wrong category will delay and/or prevent your site from being listed in the directory.

Submission Tips:

1. When writing your site''s title, please ensure it is the same as your organisation.

2. When writing your site''s description, please say what your site offers in a clear and concise statement without hype or promotional language.

Commercial Services

This category is for companies providing e-commerce systems to web designers and for companies producing bespoke software to e-commerce enable websites. Web designers using off the shelf e-commerce packages should submit here.

Domain Names

This category is for the listing of sites about domain names, including sites that register domain names, maintain DNS services and other services and information. Domain registrars and brokers may also be submitted once to an appropriate category below Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/

Submission Notes:

1. If your site is not an internet cafe based in Northern Ireland, please do not submit to this category, but choose a more appropriate category.

2. Submitting to the wrong category will delay and/or prevent your site from being listed in the directory.

Submission Tips:

1. When writing your site''s title, please ensure it is the same as your organisation.

2. When writing your site''s description, please say what your site offers in a clear and concise statement without hype or promotional language.

E-mail

This category lists services that offer UK users e-mail access.

Free Stuff

Free Stuff in this context means free things available specifically to the UK user, including but not limited to gifts, subscriptions, electronic postcards, catalogues, sweepstakes entries, coupons, and so on. This category also currently includes UK specific 'surfer reward' sites which offer the user rewards or points for certain internet actions.

This category is for sites which cater to the UK user specifically. If your site is international, please submit it instead to http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/WWW/Free_Stuff/

The following sites will not be considered for addition:

1) Any collection of "Sponsor" or paid links. These include: clicktrade, ukaffiliates, etc. Sites must have primarily original content/legitimate links.

2) Sites that use "Jump.cgi" or "Out.cgi" scripts or similar, redirect urls, forwarding pages, full page ads and similar to deter the determination of sponsor use and original content.

3) Sites with numerous popups or redirects through large ads.

4) Banner farms.

5) Doorway or affiliate sites.

Internet Service Providers

This category lists Internet Service Providers offering connection throughout the UK and sites concerning UK internet service providers. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company or service group that offers users access to Internet services.

Actual Internet Service Providers should be placed in a single appropriate subcategory, currently one of:

DSL
Cable
Leased_Line
Wireless
0800_Access
Subscription-Free Service or
Subscription-Based

Sites about service providers should be placed in appropriate subcategories.

Please note that:

Submissions from ''co-branded'' or ''private-label'' providers will only be accepted if they provide substantial original content.
Submissions from ''affiliate'' or ''referral'' agents and those with redirected URLs will not be knowingly accepted and will be deleted when identified.

Organisations

This category lists organisations concerned with issues or aspects of the UK internet community.

Site Promotion

Sites providing information or services that help website owners promote their websites.

Web Design and Development

This category contains other categories that list United Kingdom based companies providing web design and other services or sites concerning the provision of web design and development within the United Kingdom.

In addition to a single listing in an appropriate locality category, businesses may also be suitable for listing in an appropriate subcategory beneath Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/

Please do not submit sites to this category, but instead to subcategories (incorrect submission may lead to delays in listing):

Sites that offer design and possibly other services are listed in the Designers category.

Sites that offer hosting and possibly other services, but not design are listed in the Web Hosting category.

Sites that offer domain registration and possibly other services, but not design or hosting are listed in the Domain Names category.

Sites offering solely e-commerce development/support activities are listed in E-Commerce Solutions.

Sites offering solely promotion are listed in Site Promotion.

Web Hosting

This category is for sites primarily offering or concerning the hosting of web sites in the United Kingdom. Sites may also offer domain registration in addition to hosting.

UK companies offering design should be submitted to Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/ (see submission guidelines there).

Hosting companies may also wish be submitted for duplicate listing to an appropriate category beneath the Topical category: /Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/.