Old website been replaced
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Sorry for the odd request, I’m wondering if anyone can help.
My grandad is a film director, and a friend of his helped him set up a website to store and show his films online. I’m not sure if the website was made through WordPress or not.
His friend sadly died a little while ago. My grandad has recently realised that the website is no longer up: instead there appears to be an Indonesian blog about gambling. It looks like the blog was built using WordPress.
He is quite distressed because it seems like all the work that went into digitising his films and building the website may have been lost. Neither of us know anything about web development, and because his friend sadly passed away we don’t know anything about how the original website was made. Is it possible that some fee was unpaid or something expired, and then someone else has taken the address? How does WordPress allocate domain names like this one, would it have already been out of use at that time? Is there any way that we may be able to recover the old website?
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
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Correct account: UnknownThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Sorry, the website is https://tristrampowell.com/
(not the one in the original post, which is a website I made years ago as a school project) -
I’m afraid there isn’t much you can do. That site and domain expired some time ago. When you let your hosting and domain expire, you are litterally saying “we don’t want it anymore”. It seems the moment the domain got available for sale, someone bought it and set up his own site.
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Ok, thank you for your help.
How can you tell when the site expired? Any information would be a great help.
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About a month before a domain or hosting expire, the owner get’s several emails to warn him it’s time to pay for his hosting an/or domain.
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Hi there, I hope you don’t mind me adding to this thread.
It looks like there is material available in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20211114191625/https://tristrampowell.com/ If they archived your grandfather’s site you might be able to recover some of the material. (Here’s the base link https://web.archive.org/web/20210901000000*/https://tristrampowell.com/ but 2022 only has the domain squatter’s content.)
If you are able to recover, you could start a new site and register a different top level domain instead of .com Trying to recover the original domain from a squatter is usually very painful to one’s wallet.
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Thank you so much, this is fantastic! My grandad will be overjoyed, I’ll look into recovering the old site and setting it up on a new domain.
It’s so great to know it isn’t totally lost, thank you very much again for your help.
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