pdrew
04-03-2004, 09:12 AM
Greetings:
Came into the studio this morning, turned on the computer, fetched my email and discovered a message from a client that my website was down.
I opened IE6, typed in my URL, and sure enough, my DNS has been hijacked by www.pacanka.com.
Now, the wrinkle in this is that my site is/was being hosted on another company's server for whom I've done work. The only other site on the server is the host's company site. That site is gone, too, replaced by pacanka.com. Last year, the company let their IT guy go, so the server was basically running unattended.
The gods had smiled on this unattended server until this morning. The name (a first name repeated twice) before the @-sign in the email address provided on pancanka.com is the same as the IT guy who used to work at the company that's hosting my site! So, I emailed him asking if he's the same guy and for an explanation. I don't have high hopes for a reply. I've put in a call to the owner of the company who owns/runs the server and hope to speak to him by Monday.
Anyway, since my DNS has been stolen/co-opted, does this mean my domain name "www.peterdrewvo.com" is now gone and no longer available to me? Would it work if I got another host? Any guidance as to how to handle this situation would be most appreciated.
Thanks.
Came into the studio this morning, turned on the computer, fetched my email and discovered a message from a client that my website was down.
I opened IE6, typed in my URL, and sure enough, my DNS has been hijacked by www.pacanka.com.
Now, the wrinkle in this is that my site is/was being hosted on another company's server for whom I've done work. The only other site on the server is the host's company site. That site is gone, too, replaced by pacanka.com. Last year, the company let their IT guy go, so the server was basically running unattended.
The gods had smiled on this unattended server until this morning. The name (a first name repeated twice) before the @-sign in the email address provided on pancanka.com is the same as the IT guy who used to work at the company that's hosting my site! So, I emailed him asking if he's the same guy and for an explanation. I don't have high hopes for a reply. I've put in a call to the owner of the company who owns/runs the server and hope to speak to him by Monday.
Anyway, since my DNS has been stolen/co-opted, does this mean my domain name "www.peterdrewvo.com" is now gone and no longer available to me? Would it work if I got another host? Any guidance as to how to handle this situation would be most appreciated.
Thanks.