um, I searched repeatedly for how to remove an unused free domain, and everthing points to 'use irc chat.'
well, I tried this for a few days now, several times per day, and always empty.
Could this be a problem from my end? I have all non-essential services disabled in XP, including messenger, so my cranky old 333 MHz laptop can surf, as it's my only connection to the 'net.
never used irc chat before, don't ever chat normally, just research, sometimes forum post, and now working on my site.
just wondering what a good time of day is to catch someone with the power to delete my extra domain.
Thanks!

Sorry for late reply, but if you're using the http://livechat.zymic.com/hosting link, it uses a service called Mibbit, which (stupidly in my opinion) hides anyone who hasn't spoke in the past X minutes. If you join #hosting, just ask the question and someone will respond normally pretty quick. Best hours to catch someone would be between noon and 10pm EST (GMT-5)

Thanks for the help, Andrew!
Turns out, for anyone with a similar problem with IRC, that my ancient browser K-meleon 1.5 (it's fast, not a RAM-hog, and can block Flash unless overridden, that's why i use it) wasn't reading the IRC page correctly. Opened it in Chrome and had no problems.
I'm really enjoying my stay here at Zymic so far.
Lots of good info, and the hosting has been really fast for me.

Chrome now has extensions, and firefox has had them for a while, I'm sure if you browsed around the extension galleries of both you could find some that will make them run fast and not be RAM hogs, I know firefox has the flash blocker, and I don't see why Chrome wouldn't have one by now.

Chrome works ok, not too horribly laggy, no worse at eating RAM than IE, but I still only use it for newer pages that K-meleon won't render fully (or for testing,) as I assume Google is tracking its use (on that note I open my personal webpage with it sometimes to maybe nudge Google my way.)
Don't trust IE any more than Chrome, maybe less. I use it exclusively for testing or super-picky webpages that don't like Chrome or K-meleon.
I have a RAM manager on this laptop, since it maxes out at 160MB. I can maintain about 40MB free running K-meleon, Chrome, or IE (I have 100MB free when not running anything extra.) When I run Firefox, my RAM meter just creeps down until it hits 16MB, then the auto-free kicks in and lags whatever was loading so much I have to refresh it usually. This cycle repeats until I close Firefox, and then it takes up to 3 minutes to end the firefox process. I only use Firefox to test my work because it eats my system resources so greedily. Aside from eating the RAM, it really taxes the 366 MHz AMD in this poor old beast.
I have seen the flashblock extensions, yes, but I've grown to like K-meleon, the privacy settings are really easy to toggle and get to, and it's not as bloated as the alternatives. It works for most things that don't use too much Java or scripts.
All the browsers hang up on some commonly used scripts and I have to stop 'em manually when they stop responding to get pages to load completely, as the scripts hang them up in the middle. I'd consider an upgrade to my laptop or a PCMCIA adapter for a desktop to use my WiFi card, but I'm too cheap (the laptop was free and I have a whole $11 in parts in it,) and this does mostly work for what I do with it.
<edit> sorry, I'm getting off-topic here, I'll end my ranting in this thread.
I do want to say thanks again to Andrew for getting rid of that extra account.

Not a problem

As for your laptop, I don't know if I could live :\ I have a dual core 1.8ghz processor and 3gb of ram and have no slow downs. I run around 30 tabs minimum in Firefox, have my html editor nearly 24/7, along with xChat for IRC, FileZilla for FTP, Digsby for IM, and sometimes photoshop. If I had to use your laptop, I'd probably never go online!

Computers are quite cheap now, and plenty of people buy new ones every day, I'm sure you could get someone to give you their old one, or even buy an old one off someone for a few bucks. Maybe if you get a couple free ones you can piece something together if you're any good with the hardware aspects of PC's. Then at least you wouldn't have to worry so much about what you run on your computer, and probably would be surprised at how much more you'd be able to get accomplished in a less amount of time.

as far as what I run on this thing, the laptop is exclusively for the internet. any real work is done on a desktop with some decent specs. I don't need much out of the 'net computer but the open connection.
Regarding a pre-used laptop, well, I'm always open to donations, I even grab busted hardware out of the trash all the time. I enjoy repairing 'dead' things, and supply others with hardware when they don't have any and no money to get any. My 3-and-6 year old kids each have their own desktop with a bunch of kids games, why not, the computers were trash before I got 'em so it doesn't matter if the kids mangle 'em.
laptops, however, seem a lot more scarce than desktops. I have a few good enough desktops now (over 2ghz) saved from the curb, but this is the only laptop to come my way able to handle better than dos6 and win31.
Anyone feels sorry for me, I'll be happy to supply my PO box number to send me something more up-to-date... ha ha.
But, yes, I would enjoy a laptop fast enough to handle my HVR950 digital tv usb dongle... I've looked, though, and without a good deal it'd take about $200 to get something hopped-up enough to justify spending money, and 2 bills is a lot by my standards.