[ale] sponsoring registrar

[Todor Fassl]

The sponsoring registrar, enom.com, told me twice via tech support phone 
call that I'd have to send them an image of the death certificate. I 
went down to the court house and got that. I filled out a tech support 
ticket and now they're telling me they need the estate to contact them.

The family of the dead guy has been friendly but uncooprerative.  We 
asked them to point a smart phone at their copy of the death certificate 
and email us a picture. How hard can that be, right? Well, a month went 
by and nothing happened. But maybe if we put a paper in front of them 
and say, "Sign this," it will work.

The domain doesn't expire until February but it's not doing us any good 
right now. We are probably not going to be able to get our web site 
unsuspended. That's partly a political problem w/i the group that is 
just too bizarre and complicated to explain.

So we can get a new web site with a new domain name fairly soon. We 
could just forget about our old domain name but I don't want to do that. 
I'm not entirely sure all the members of the group recognize the problem 
with just dumping the old domain name and moving to a new one.

Well, none of this is really part of my technical problem which is to 
ask if the "sponsoring registrar" is the right entity to contact about 
regaining control of the domain name. I'd have thought it was except 
they sent me an email saying they don't know nothin' bout the domain name.



On 10/20/14 15:58, JD wrote:
> Contact his heirs.
>
> Have them sign a statement giving the domain, hosting, DNS, etc. to you.  While
> I haven't had to deal with registrars - I have recently been the executor of a will.
>
> Go to the heirs - they will likely happily hand it over if there is any email
> from you in his email account from before he died ... or you can show posts to
> the website with your account or any meeting minutes showing the core group of
> responsible people.
>
>
>
> On 10/20/2014 02:05 PM, Todor Fassl wrote:
>> I am a member of a non-profit. Years ago, one of our members set up a web site
>> and put everything in his name. Well, he died and now the web site is down.
>> Well, it's "suspended" which I take to mean we haven't paid for the web site
>> since the guy died.
>>
>> I'd like to get our domain named moved to another site while we get the billing
>> worked out. But the domain name is in the dead guy's name too. I think I can
>> contact the sponsoring registrar to get the domain name back, right? Below is a
>> dump of the output from whois with the dead guy's name and address changed for
>> privacy purposes. I should contact enom.com to regain control over our domain,
>> right?
>>
>> Domain Name:example-domain.ORG
>
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