Website Move Seems to be Confusing our Friends

[Distant Echo]

Apologies if this has already been discussed. Our website is now found at www.hornchurchfc.com and the old urchins.org appears dead. Many sites have the urchins.org link on their sites and are reporting our website as unavailable. I am sure the Powers That Be are aware of this but is anything being done to publicise the change?

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

IAN?

Are you asleep again? Or maybe just preparing a statement????

[Urchin Boy]

Distant Echo, Last Time I Typed In Urchins.org It Automatically Redirects You New Site.

 

But Looking At Hornchurchfc.com The Following Are Registered As Hornchurch Websites

 

www.urchins.org

www.urchins.org.uk

www.hornchurchfc.net

www.hornchurchfc.co.uk

[R&W Dynamite]

Not any more. It seems the only address that works now is www.hornchurchfc.com.

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Come on UB, try to keep up mate!

[Urchin Boy]

Sorry R&WD I Haven't Checked In A While !

[Ian_W]

Apologies - we have a techinical problem, with the company who is hosting the urchins.org url. Looks like we will have to pay a large amount to get the name released and moved over

[Nette]

Seems strange Ian, we've had urchins.org for years and we've never had a problem, why a problem now. Enlighten us please.

[Ian_W]

Totally agree - we requested them move the DNS for us - they failed to do this - and now want us to pay another years hosting at a very high price, when we do not even use them to host the site They seem to hold the trump cards, so it looks like we will have little choice. It is a few hundred pounds that we shouldn't have to pay out.

 

I tried to do something under the new ICANN rules, but this seems to have failed

 

The plan was to change the site back to the urchins.org domain once the DNS was updated.

 

(apologies if all the above is double-dutch )

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Don't worry Ian, you are doing a great job mate!

[Distant Echo]

Holding us to ransome to the tune of several hundred pounds sounds ugly. As "we" own the domain name in question I can't understand why we can't just transfer it to another service provider. I built and service a website for my mother's small business. I used 5MB of the 30MB "free" webspace supplied by my ISP, then registered the domain name she wanted and then used "web pointing" to access the site. Total cost = about twenty quid a year.

[Ian_W]

Essentially all the other domains are hosted on one of my servers - I am truly sorry for any problems, and we will get them sorted as quickly as possible

[Distant Echo]

Hey Ian, please don't think I was criticising because you do an excellent job!!! Bet you have forgotton more than I will ever know about website design!! The point I was trying to make by my first post was that lots of people think we are "dead" because they can no longer access urchins.org Is there any mechanism whereby we can inform fellow clubs that they should use hornchurchfc.com?

[Ian_W]

Not at all - we have now paid the old hosts a large amount of cash, and the domain is now working again.

 

Apologies for the downtime.

[Distant Echo]

Splendid work Ian. Now everybody out there using the urchins.org link can see we are very much alive and kicking.

[Hornchurchmag O30crew]

Keep up the good work, your doing a grand job.

[Keemo]

yes, pip pip to the Ian chap