[SOLVED] renew of website

I recently have taken over administering of inlaws website.

But it has expired and am having problems renewing it.

How do i go about doing this?


Cheers Dan.

Do you mean the domain name registration has expired or the website is outdated or even the hosting?

domain name registration

Where abouts was the domain registered before?

Surely if the domain name registration has expired you should be able to renew it through and domain registration company as long as nobody else has registered that domain name

You would have thought that anyway....

www.bradfordarmshotel.com

When you look at it through whois for example it says that bradford arms own it but the expiry date has run out. tried to buy it again but it says its not avaliable.

That's because another company has bought it and if you email them, they'll sell it for about £200-500. Else the ads will stay..

This is the person to contact. Is this the webhost that you used when you had it? (Not you but the inlaws)

If not, then it's probably going to cost quite a bit of money!

Ok, I don't know how much you have investigated but the whois information shows the registration expired 10-25-2007. Prior to that it appears to have been hosted on Ghoulet Ltd (http://www.ghoulnet.com ). They have a note up about sites they were hosting. You should read it.

The name registration is now part of
OrgName: eNom!
OrgID: ENOM
Address: 15801 NE 24th Street
City: Bellevue
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98008
Country: US

NetRange: 8.15.231.0 - 8.15.231.255
CIDR: 8.15.231.0/24
NetName: ENOM
NetHandle: NET-8-15-231-0-1
Parent: NET-8-15-230-0-1
NetType: Reallocated
Comment:
RegDate: 2007-06-12
Updated: 2007-06-12

RTechHandle: CMC102-ARIN
RTechName: McDuffie, Christopher
RTechPhone: +1-425-274-4500
RTechEmail: chris.mcduffie@enom.com

Hope this helps!

[quote=Lchad;287552]This is the person to contact. Is this the webhost that you used when you had it? (Not you but the inlaws)
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The above company was where it was hosted.

Looking further into it and the below company afternic seem to own it i think, they say that they will forward a bid to the owner lowest bid $200 with an administration fee of $69.

http://www.afternic.com/p/offer0.php...darmshotel.com

Why do i always have to learn the hard way??

I take it that this company has now registered the domain name? What makes it worse is that they registered it recently, i think they own the domain for something like 7 years so you would have to pay or register a new domain name.

If this is UK site, is there no possiblility of using a .co.uk domain extension instead or using a slightly different domain name but very similar

Welcome to the club!!!! :ranting:

It happens. Called business 101. In the US we call it CYA..Cover your A**!!