Hi everyone, I’m not sure if this is the right section to be posting this or not but if so here is my question…
My buddy has a business website that someone created and hosted for him and things happened where he lost contact with the person and all he wants to do now is shut down the website since its messing up with his business but he can’t touch base with that person. What steps can you take to shut it off? Thanks for any help.
Just paste the URL and just read all of the information and from there he can contact the person manage it.
I am just speaking for what I will do if ever I lost information of my provider (for any reason)
You can shut it down by pointing the domain elsewhere. If you don’t have control of the domain you may be able to gain control via the relevant authority if you have legal provenance for the domain.
As EastCoast said, you can shut down the domain or move it elsewhere. Although the guy who built the site controls the hosting, it appears that the domain is registered to the owner of the business. Tell him to get in touch with the registrar if he doesn’t have the account details.
It’s a good sign that the client is the named Registrant and Administrative contact. Tell them to view the WHOIS record for the domain and check that their contact details are correct.
And then to email the Registration Service (Sectorlink) at the address shown there, sending from their @voyager.net email account shown in the WHOIS. Sectorlink should be able to offer them support. The client should also decide whether they want to maintain registration of the domain name or allow it to expire.
Make sure the client is aware that if the domain is allowed to expire (26th Feb 2012) it’s likely to be acquired by someone else, and may be exploited for commercial ends unrelated to it’s former purpose, hawking Viagra for example. As the domain tops Google for “roselli foods” I’d advise them to retain it if they are still trading under the name or may wish to in future.
Mask the existing website with Website Closed / Website under Maintenance / redirect the Website to a new website. Otherwise, just remove your webfiles and database from the root file and your website will not be able to visible anymore.
That’s quite a situation! Since the website isn’t his, he probably can’t do much about it besides contact his web designer. If that doesn’t work, his only other option is to take legal action and seize the website.
It seems that ‘rosellifoods.com’ is hosted by sectorlink.com You can contact webhost and request them to cancel the hosting or if you have access to domian name registry you can just remove the nameservers so that your website won’t resolve anymore.
Login to the domain name control panel and points to the server than the original
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Don’t pay the hosting bill, probably they will delete the hosting account automatically