[Hidden-tech] Taking over for a deceased webmaster

[Ron Miller]

I would find out who they registered the site through such as Network 
Solutions or GoDaddy.com.

You can track registration information in the Whois database. Sometimes 
there is a technical contact and and administrative contact. If the 
deceased guy was only one of these, you can probably just get the other 
contact to authorize the transfer.

Otherwise, I would imagine it would work just like any other situation 
where someone has died. You have to show proof of death with a death 
certificate and also provide some proof that you have authority to take 
it over.

Good luck.

Ron

Ron Miller
Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988
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> I've been asked to take over updating a Web site for a friend's 
> father-in-law. The site was maintained by someone else for several 
> years, but he has died, and the father-in-law doesn't have any of the 
> passwords for their Web hosting or domain name registration. They want 
> me to manually copy the site and create a whole new domain name and 
> hosting account, and I'm willing to do that, but first I'd like to find 
> out if it's possible to regain control of the existing site. These are 
> extenuating circumstances, after all.
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> Does anyone have experience with such a thing? The site is 
> http://www.healingloveofchrist.com/ , if that helps.
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> (Interesting story - when my friend first told me about the situation, 
> she said "The site used to be updated by somebody else, but he's late." 
> I thought she meant that he was just slow in making the updates, but she 
> meant "late" as in "the late Gerald Ford.")
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