How do I find out the host of an existing website?

My boss wants me to set up a new website for his business. He has an old website, but it is old and he doesn%26#039;t have any of the passwords/information for it. Is there a way to retrieve that information, or at least find out what%26#039;s hosting the website? Otherwise, I%26#039;ll have to register a new domain, and I wouldn%26#039;t be able to use the name of the business, which is the old domain.

How do I find out the host of an existing website?

Go to the URL listed below and type in the domain.com address and check all the boxes. Click the go button and then on your results look under Registrar this is the name and contact information that the domain name is registered through. Then scroll down to the Registration information section and you will see who is registered as the current legal owner of the domain name which should be your bosses name. If it is a name other than your bosses you will have to contact them about buying the domain back. If you do not keep registration of domain name paid up you loose it.If no information shows up means the domain name currently is not registered and you can just re-register it. It would not be the first time people think they own a domain name when it is legally registered to someone else.

How do I find out the host of an existing website?

I was not able to do so in domain.com, as they seemed to be charging for the information. I could do it in whois.net as in the other answer. Thanks anyway. Report It

Other Replys:Type the website address in the who is site.

http://www.whois.net/

Other Replys:http://www.whois.sc/

Also works. Here is more information about whois lookup tool.

WHOIS is a TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. WHOIS lookups were traditionally made using a command line interface, but a number of simplified web-based tools now exist for looking up domain ownership details from different databases. Web-based WHOIS clients still rely on the WHOIS protocol to connect to a WHOIS server and do lookups, and command-line WHOIS clients are still quite widely used by system administrators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois

Other Replys:If you are currently a paid Internet subscriber, you are entitled to a %26quot;homepage%26quot; which often contains simple navigation and editing tools. And if you use the Netscape browser, the built-in Composer feature is a superior HTML authoring tool. You can easily generate a full-blown website as a Homepage. Nevertheless, the %26quot;homepage%26quot; URL is likely to be %26quot;http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscribe... name%26quot; and that URL can easily be overwritten via a redirection service, i.e., %26quot;mydomain.com%26quot; which allows you to link any registered domain name to %26quot;mask%26quot; another website. For example, should you type in %26quot;domainname.com%26quot;, you will be immediately transported to the homepage and the hompage URL of http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... name will be masked by the domainname.com. And the charge for the redirection service [even at godaddy.com] is normally FREE. Here%26#039;s a demonstration: Type in the URL window: %26quot;www.pizzanextdoor.com%26quot; which will bring up their pizza website. Take note of the domain name. Then type in the URL window: %26quot;http://home.pacbell.net/vten/1a/pizzame... and you will see that this is the original homepage which is unmasked without the domain name!

Good luck!