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NRaleighLiberal

(60,013 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 01:55 PM Nov 2013

Serious question - web host of one of my websites shows infection - and seems to have bolted..

ServerPro (website on Topcities domain) - a Google search shows loads of complaints. I noticed it a few months ago trying to look back at some links from there (I put lots of my garden pics there) - Google blocked it for Malware. All attempts to reach the company fail - emails bounce, no phone numbers - as far as I can tell, just a lot of unhappy customers posting on various web hosting review forums.

The question - what can I do? How can I deactivate the domain name so that people can't try to reach it. I realize I am going to now have to figure out everything I had on it, find the source docs and reload them to another server.....but that's for later.

Help!

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Serious question - web host of one of my websites shows infection - and seems to have bolted.. (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 OP
How is the domain name registered? Sentath Nov 2013 #1

Sentath

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1. How is the domain name registered?
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 02:08 PM
Nov 2013

If you aren't sure you can check it here: http://www.tucowsdomains.com/whois/ among other places that offer the same service.

Once you know how it is registered you can try to contact that company with your concerns and they can redirect to a new host or to a neutral denial of the existence of a website.

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