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Dr. Moonie
The information requested is, for the most part, not available centrally or in the form requested, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The Ministry of Defence has registered approximately 460 domain names under the mod.uk second-level domain. These are sub-delegated to numerous organisations within the MOD and armed forces. The MOD does not currently have a record of which are currently in use. A variety of other domain names (under gov.uk, org.uk etc) have also been registered locally, but no central register currently exists.
The MOD does not currently maintain a composite record of individual websites, costs, contractors and assessments. It would entail disproportionate cost to obtain these details for all of the locally managed websites that are operated by departmental organisations.
For the five central corporate websites of the MOD and the armed forces, all of which are live, the data are as follows. In the case of the MOD corporate website, the only metric available across all years is that of the number of hits (i.e. requests for files, including pages, images and others). For the remaining websites, the metric used is of page impressions (i.e. requests for pages only).
| Ministry of Defence (corporate) — http://www.mod.uk |
| Start up costs |
Aggregated with operating costs. Website established circa 1996, funding commenced financial year 1998–99. Expenditure includes that on MOD news website (established 2001) |
| Operating costs |
Financial year |
£ |
|
1998–99 |
54,000 |
|
1999–2000 |
100,000 |
|
2000–01 |
153,000 |
|
2001–02 |
202,000 |
| Hosting company |
Financial year |
Contractor |
|
1996–97 |
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency |
|
1997–98 |
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency |
|
1998–99 |
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency |
|
1999–2000 |
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency |
|
2000–01 |
PSInet UK |
|
2001–02 |
PSInet UK/Defence Science and Technology Laboratory |
| Assessments (note: news pages on separate website since December 2001) |
Internal statistical evaluations only. Usage of the MOD website began to be measured on a monthly basis in December 1997. The figures for 2000–01 are rounded extrapolations based on data recorded between June 2000 and December 2001. Hits for the period from |
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| Ministry of Defence (corporate)—http://www.mod.uk |
|
December 1997 to September 2002 are as follows: |
|
Year |
Number of hits |
|
December 1997–December 1998 |
4,576,859 |
|
December 1998–December 1999 |
18,195,760 |
|
December 1999–December 2000 |
20,700,000 |
|
December 2000–13 December 2001 |
26,200,000 |
|
14 December 2001–31 September 2002 |
30,786,501 |
| Ministry of Defence (news)—http://news.mod.uk |
| Start up costs |
Aggregated with operating costs. Site was established in April 2001 (was previously part of the Ministry of Defence corporate website). Funded as part of the MOD corporate website expenditure |
| Operating costs |
Financial year |
£ |
|
2000–01 |
As per Ministry of Defence website |
|
2001–02 |
As per Ministry of Defence website |
| Hosting company |
Financial year |
Contractor |
|
2000–01 |
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency |
| 2001–02 |
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory |
| Assessments |
Internal statistical evaluations only. Page impressions for the period from April 2001 to September 2002 are as follows: |
|
Year |
Number of page impressions |
|
April 2001–March 2002 |
1,373,823 |
|
April 2002–September 2002 |
500,175 |
| British Army—http://www.army.mod.uk |
| Start up costs Operating costs |
Aggregated with operating costs |
| Operating costs |
Since the Army website was established in 1 996, total expenditure on its construction and maintenance has been approximately £2,630,000 |
| Hosting company |
Financial year |
Contractor |
|
|
1996–97 |
Corsellis-Montford Interactive |
|
1997–98 |
Corsellis-Montford Interactive |
|
1998–99 |
Corsellis-Montford Interactive |
|
1999–2000 |
Corsellis-Montford Interactive |
|
2000–01 |
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency |
|
2001–02 |
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory |
| Assessments |
Internal statistical evaluations only. Usage of the Army website began to be measured on a monthly basis in November 2001. Page requests for the period from November 2001 to September 2002 are as follows: |
|
Month |
Number of page impressions |
|
November 2001 |
1,386,158 |
|
December 2001 |
1,104,423 |
|
January 2002 |
1,497,885 |
|
February 2002 |
1,001,671 |
|
March 2002 |
1,274,174 |
|
April 2002 |
1,475,467 |
|
May 2002 |
1,357,795 |
|
June 2002 |
1,308,677 |
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| Royal Air Force—http://www.raf.mod.uk |
| Start up costs |
£17,500 |
|
|
| Operating costs |
Financial year |
£ |
Figures for previous years unavailable without incurring disproportionate cost |
|
2001–01 |
74,000 |
|
|
2002–03 |
87,500 |
|
| Hosting company |
Financial year |
Contractor |
|
|
1997–2002 |
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory |
| Assessments (note: news pages on separate website since December 2001) |
Internal statistical evaluations only. Usage of the RAF website began to be measured on a regular basis in 2000. Page impressions for the period 2000–02 are as follows: |
|
Year |
Number of page impressions |
|
1999–2000 |
|
5,730,953 |
|
2000–01 |
|
9,056,317 |
|
2001–02 |
|
7,164,507 |
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| Royal Navy—http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk |
| Start up costs |
Aggregated with operating costs. Funding commenced financial year 1999–2000 |
| Operating costs |
Financial year |
£ |
|
1999–2000 |
93,000 |
|
2000–01 |
96,000 |
|
2001–02 |
114,000 |
| Hosting Company |
Financial year |
Contractor |
|
1999–2000 |
PSInet UK |
|
2000–01 |
PSInet/lnsite Ltd |
|
2001–02 |
Insite Ltd |
| Assessments (note: news pages on separate website since December 2001) |
Internal statistical evaluations only. Usage of the Royal Navy website began to be measured on a regular basis in 1999. Page impressions for the period from December 1997 to May 2002 are as follows: |
|
|
Year |
Number of page impressions |
|
1999–2000 |
Average 450,000 per month |
|
2000–01 |
650,000 per month |
|
2001–02 |
2,100,000 per month |