My company needs to update there website, unfortunitaly it hasn't been touched in years. The problem, no one remembers who are host is, passwords or anyway to get in touch with some one to help. How can I find out who the host is or how to get our domain name back from us to reuse with another host for us.

DNS lookup and other tools

Go there, enter you website address into the box. It will tell you who owns what, and should even give you a hint on contact info.

Good luck
Zach

Thanks, its a start

Did you try the second box the WhoIs finder?

Its pretty specific. Should give a contact phone number and lots more detail.

Zach

Found the host (thanks Zach) and called the 800#, they need the account name and password that we do not have. They said they could email the info to the registered email address, that email is long gone. What can I do know????

Do you archive your email? Any chance of going back to your backup tapes to find the email in question?

If you let the ISP know whats going on, they will most likely have a formal (or sometimes informal) procedure for a business in your situation. After all, the guy that set it up initially is not the owner, the business is the owner (so long as the initial guy was working as an agent of the business).

I had to do this once for a client, and in my case the procedure was simply telling them what was going on, and asking politely for the password. They probably should not have given it to me but it never hurts to ask.

Zach