Some time ago I wrote that of all the silly ppl on this stale planet who I desperately wished had a blog but didn’t was Stephen Fry.  I wrote it but I can’t seem to find it so maybe I didn’t, maybe I dreamed it, well I am so sorry for dreaming!  Sheesh.

Well guess what!  Bet you can’t guess after that introduction, betcya with poos on top.  Yes he’s started one!  Started it last month in fact so why the heck did no body tell me?

As some of his commenters have pointed out, he doesn’t appear to have quite grasped the concept yet.  He’s so far only made 2 posts, which isn’t surprising considering that both are veritable dissertations.  Still it’s well worth taking a year out from your life to read them because, well it’s Stephen Fry!

Upgraded wordpress 2.3 just now.

This is quite a major version for me because it’s the first to have its own tag support.  I’ve been doing all my tagging with a plugin called Ultimate Tag Warrior and dreaded the moment I’d have to convert all my tags to some WP implimentation, but heck, with WP being such a great community developed kit 2.3 came with its own import scripts for all the popular tag plugins!

You still have to change the theme to use WP’s own functions though, which seems to have gone fine except I can’t find a way to colourise the tag clouds all pretty like.

There will probably be things in the theme I’ve forgotten to migrate so expect shitty things.

I’m pretty sure you’ll turn on your comp one day and discover the words “Part of the C|Net network” in the corner of your desktop.

First it was Gamespot, then TV Tome became TV.com and now it’s Version Tracker.  Which pretty much means the end of Version Tracker, I give it 1 week before it’s covered in pop-over flash ads and so many graphics that a single page refresh is a 100MB download. Not to mention having to click through an Ad page to get to the site.

Gaygamer was DoS’d last weekend.

Bit late with this one, but i’ve been busy OK!?  Apparently, at first it seemed like some silly kid doing some lousy DoS attack for kicks, flooding them with pings and all that, but after a while it was apparent they weren’t going to stop and eventually they started noticing hate filled rants on their forum.

I find this quite scary because I had rather hoped that the internet blogging community were quite a liberal bunch, but if a quirky gaming blog can receive homophobic attacks then nowhere is safe right?

If you subscribed to my websites feed prior to this month please resubscribe, the feed is now located at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ItchAndBeMerry or http://feeds.feedburner.com/thatkidweekly for the podcast.

For the past week or so my feed has been all arsed up and I have only just now spotted it (tweerp).  It was due to a buggy version of one of my wordpress plugin called “Ultimate Tag Warrior”.  Updated the plugin and it seems all is well now.

Woohoo, I’m now seeing itchmerry.com on the bluehost tip so it’s finally all done and dusted.  Now just need to check I’ve set my site up on bluehost correctly and that all is as it should be.

Received an email from the losing registrar this morning with a link to agree and fast-track the process.  So did that.  Went back to the domain manger at bluehost and clicked some link which finished off the whole thing.

So now I think it’s just a matter of waiting for DNS servers around the world to update.

After circlehosting failed to get back to enom after the 48 hours they didn’t hesitate to email me the code I needed.  So that’s good!

Done what I needed to do, now I just need to wait the 398 million years it takes to complete the transfer.

Sent this to info@enom.com but surprise surprise no reply….

I have a domain with one of your resellers circlehosting.net who have not responded to any of my support requests for over 2 months.
The last time I contacted enom.com you told me to contact circlehosting.  I’m trying to stress that this cannot be done.  My further emails to you were then ignored.

Their website is horribly broken.  You cannot submit a ticket because it fails with php errors.

I need to get an EPP auth code to transfer my domain “itchmerry.com” to bluehosts.

I have contacted bluehosts about it and they responded with this…

“Unfortunately there is nothing that we can do to obtain the auth code for you but I would recommend being persistent with enom as they can give you the information that you need. If you continue to not be able to get the auth code you may want to file a complaint with ICANN since they are the registrar ac creditor”

Also, may I quote from your “eNom Registration Agreement”…

“If your Primary Service Provider is unresponsive, you may contact us to have your domain name(s) locked or unlocked or to obtain the EPP “AuthCode” though we may first contact your Primary Service Provider to request that the Primary Service Provider address the request. Only the registrant and the administrative contacts listed in the WHOIS information may approve or deny a transfer request.”

Therefore, it seems that you SHOULD do something in this situation.

Apparently moving house is one of the most stressful events in somebody’s life.  Well, I think moving hosts must be similar ‘cos I’m having a nightmare.

Turns out I was wrong about bluehost doing all the transferring for you.  I still need to get an EPP auth code from circlehosting in order to complete it.

Which means I’m back to square one because I cannot get an auth code if I can’t contact the bloody swines.  They haven’t replied to emails for months.

I can’t even keep the domain with circlehosting and change the nameservers because they have no interface for such domain tinkering.

Circlehosting have a reseller account with enom, but enom either don’t respond or only partially read the support query.  I emailed them some time ago to say that one of their resellers won’t respond to my support requests and their reply was to try and contact the reseller.  Clever.

I’ve tried asking for help from bluehost and they told me that pretty much the only thing I can do is to carry on nagging enom to help me out.  And if all else fails report them to ICANN.  Thing is, ICANN are more like ICANN’T.  I’ve had a look on ICANN’s site and it says that when a registrar is unresponsive that ICANN can’t help but that you need to contact a consumer affairs bureau.

Do none of these domain people know what they’re doing?

HELP!