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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:36:06PM -0400, Beckett wrote:
> Deborah and I are trying to help out friends who lost their website. 
> These folks paid some cousin's-sister's-friend to set up a simple 
> brochure site for their farm a couple years ago.  Apparently a divorce 
> and bad blood ensued and said designer is no longer reachable.
> 
> The domain name expired last month and the site disappeared with it. 
> Some of the content appears on the Wayback Machine, thankfully. 
> Presumeably the content is still on the (free) server someplace, but 
> these folks don't know who the host is and we can't find anything about 
> it.
> 
> We tried to re-register the domain name, and PairNIC says it is 
> unavailable.  Netsol's whois says it is expired but unavailable, but we 
> can "snapback" order it for just $69/year.  Apparently the previous 
> registrar was joker.com.  Not a confidence-inspiring name.  Joker's 
> whois says "Name Server: NOT-RENEWED.JOKER.COM".
> 
> Questions:
> 
> - Is there a way to find the IP address for a recently-expired domain name?

Probably not.
 
> - How do we get the domain name out of DNS limbo?

Pay the registrar.

If the host handled email for the domain, and these folks have any of the
email sent to them at addresses within the domain, you ought to be able to
at least figure out the hosting provider; from there, you may be able to
run a lookup against their DNS servers directly.

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