Sorry - got so wound up that I forgot to mention...

Anyone can get a website up and running inside a couple of hours. You can get 15Mb of free webspace, for example, on Freeserve (in the UK) within minutes of signing up.

No web host should take any longer than that to get a site online - uploading is child's play these days. I'd go along with SeanM's 'stringing along' theory...

I've designed (and maintain) websites for two local folk clubs, too...

The Railway Folk Club and The Open Door Folk Club, both of which are on the same Freeserve webspace...

I registered domain names with easily.co.uk - very cheap! - each of which came online within 24 hours...

I work as a sound engineer... am I in the wrong job, I wonder...?!!

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---Jeff (PA)---