Am I the only one to notice that 18 Doughty Street has totally disappeared? Iain Dale told us it was going to get bigger and better. They even had a wordy statement on the website before it too went bye-bye.
Where did it go? I was trying to find a show from last year that talked about Recess Monkey posting prematurely on the death of Margaret Thatcher, which later turned out to be a trick played on the editor of the left-wing blog.
How can a TV station just disappear like that?
Let’s do a WHOIS lookup to find out eh?
http://whois.domaintools.com/18doughtystreet.com
Turns out the domain is registered to a one Stephan Shakespeare of YouGov Plc, who also owns 171 other domains. The other names associated with the account were Darren Hudson and Mike Rouse. The latter is the Technical Contact. We have emailed him for an explanation.
UPDATE…
Mike Rouse has responded quickly. Our email conversation is printed here:
I aksed…
Dear Mike,
I notice that 18 Doughty Street is no longer up and running. As the Technical Contact for the domain can you explain why?
Yours,
Percy
He said…
Dear Percy,
Thanks for your email. I am no longer associated with or contracted by Doughty Media Limited and as such no longer provide any services to the company or have access to any of its facilities.
It is the responsibility of Doughty Media Limited to keep its WHOIS records up-to-date and they should have replaced my details with their new technical contact by now as my contract was discontinued in December of last year. I do not have access to the domain to be able to remove my details.
Can I suggest you drop the company a line on 020 7405 1818 if you have any further queries?
Yours,
Mike Rouse
I then asked if it was OK to publish his answer here, to which he said…
Percy,
If you could just point out that I am no longer associated with the project and to contact 020 7405 1818 with any queries I would be grateful.
Incidentally, you might be able to find what you were looking for at http://18doughtystreet.blip.tv/
Yours,
Mike Rouse
Consider it done.
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A very good question indeed.
I am currently composing a poem, “The Ballad of 18 Doughty Street”, however, it is taking longer than planned on the basis of there being so much gossip.
It is dead.
It is an ex-TV station
I feel a little bad – today was the first time I checked in on it for months – last time was about the time they announced the big change. It was going to get bigger and better, but it’s gotten so small instead it’s disappeared. We were lied to and I think some people shold be exposed here so that people can judge they’re characters.
Apparently…