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Help! My website disappeared.
That would be doctorhoffman.com, not this one, silly.
I can’t remember whom I paid to host that website. I presume I must have lapsed in my payments. Frequently, we get emails from people trying to steal host service from our present server, so I’ve lost track of whom our REAL server is. Oops. I never said I was good at the technical end of this business.
Short of going back through our checkbook, is there any way online to figure out what happened?
D.
Well, let’s see. doctorhoffman.com is registered to:
Registrant:
Owner
785 E. Washington Blvd., Ste. 12
Crescent City, CA 95531
US
Domain name: DOCTORHOFFMAN.COM
That’d be you, so no help there.
But the technical contact is:
Technical Contact:
Operations, Network registrars@nationwide.net
1320 Greenway Drive
Suite #640
Irving, TX 75038
US
+1.9723236598 Fax: 9725808092
Hmm. Nationwide Internet. Let’s see what DNS says:
CP-NS1.INREACH.COM
CP-NS2.INREACH.COM
INREACH.COM resolves to Nationwide Internet. So I would say that the odds are very high that you were hosted at Nationwide Internet
You, Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.
InReach . . . it’s all coming back to me now 🙂
Guess I’ll call them tomorrow and find out what’s up.
So — where did you find that info?
I used GoDaddy’s WHOIS. Here’s the Network Solutions WHOIS info:
Domain Name: DOCTORHOFFMAN.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net
Name Server: CP-NS1.INREACH.COM
Name Server: CP-NS2.INREACH.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 12-oct-2006
Creation Date: 31-aug-1998
Expiration Date: 30-aug-2007
I note that your registration is going to expire in a month!
Expires in a month, and they yanked me in July? The bastards!
The domain name and the hosting do not necessarily go hand in hand. So, if you lapsed on your hosting payment, the web host may have taken down the site.
Conversely, if you lapse on your domain name payment, you would still have a web site up and running, but people would not be able to reach it.
Of course, it could be that the server hosting your web site failed or something too. Some web hosts will have a contingency plan for that, redirecting traffic to a backup server or “we are experiencing technical difficulties” message. Others won’t.
Hey, you’re back! Looks like your counter may be broken though.