Anyone noticed.! Adverts on 'The official Mark Knopfler News website'

[Pottel]

no, they are UNOFFICIAL as mentioned several times by PC and guy fletcher.

[superval99]

Why does it say "Official" on the banner then?   

[Rollergirl]

They are not the official MK site but the official MK fan site.

[Rollergirl]

I have discovered that I only get adverts when I am logged out.  When logged in, no adverts!   

same here!

[superval99]

It says "The Official Mark Knopfler News Website" on all pages, including that above Guy's page.

[Pottel]

They are not the official MK site but the official MK fan site.

why did guy then alway refuse to call them official??

[superval99]

In that case the banner should be changed to say "Unofficial" ! 

[Rollergirl]

They are not the official MK site but the official MK fan site.

why did guy then alway refuse to call them official??

because they're not the official artist website (as opposed to the markknopfler.com site)? because he can't stand TK? I don't know, but I was under the impression that this site was kind of official, at least when I first discovered it 4 or 5 years ago, maybe this has changed since?

[superval99]

But it says Official on ALL pages, not just the Fans' forum, which I have always understood to be "The Official Fans' Forum".

[nsking]

I've gotten the ads too, and I'm glad someone referenced it because I thought our donations last year would have prevented such junk.  It is really annoying  and dimishes the site. 

[Jules]

The answer is quite simple. When Terry started the site, it was started as the official site for news regarding Mark Knopfler & relatives, supported by Ed Bicknell and Damage Management, in fact all the news came directly from the official sources.

From 1996 an official MK site existed created by Mercury records, but only with promotion purposes with the Golden heart record, the same happened with the rest of the records. The site was www.mark-knopfler.com, which is right now the site where someone talks about herbals and those things and claimed as a false Mk site by the official sources. It looks that the domain was abbandoned and bought by someone that is making a dubtous use of the domain.

Then, a canadian company built the mark knopfler official site, supported by the record company (probably some companies tried to get that work, and the canadian got the work), with more contents than the others site supported by the record company and with a new domain www.markknopfler.com, and what

[superval99]

Thank you, Julio, for clearing that up for us!   

[FenderBender]

I've gotten the ads too, and I'm glad someone referenced it because I thought our donations last year would have prevented such junk.  It is really annoying  and dimishes the site. 

nsking, to be fair the contributions were made in October 2007 (you can look at the list of contributors on the site) and covered a subscription to keep the site ad free for 12 months. I guess TK may have made a similar plea for contributions in Sept/Oct 2008, but we had all deserted the site by then, so he never raised anything like the $550 or so necessary to keep it ad free for this year.

[Pottel]

The answer is quite simple. When Terry started the site, it was started as the official site for news regarding Mark Knopfler & relatives, supported by Ed Bicknell and Damage Management, in fact all the news came directly from the official sources.

From 1996 an official MK site existed created by Mercury records, but only with promotion purposes with the Golden heart record, the same happened with the rest of the records. The site was www.mark-knopfler.com, which is right now the site where someone talks about herbals and those things and claimed as a false Mk site by the official sources. It looks that the domain was abbandoned and bought by someone that is making a dubtous use of the domain.

Then, a canadian company built the mark knopfler official site, supported by the record company (probably some companies tried to get that work, and the canadian got the work), with more contents than the others site supported by the record company and with a new domain www.markknopfler.com, and what

[dustyvalentino]

Chairman Pottel, does it matter? 

Let's keeps things civil between ourselves and our friends over at MK NEws, there's enough room in cyberspace for both of us.