[PLUG] Website decommissioning advice

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Mon Oct 5 15:56:02 UTC 2020


On 10/5/20 6:48 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> I have two websites hosted on StableHost as secondary accounts to my 
>> primary account that I no longer need. The domains are registered 
>> with NameCheap. I think this is what I need to do to retire those sites:
>>
>> 1. Clean out and delete the email accounts
>> 2. Clean out the websites
>> 3. Close the accounts at StableHost
>> 4. Cancel the registration with NameCheap.
>>
>> Have I left out anything important? Or less important?
>
> If you've used the e-mail accounts in step 1 for any financial or 
> personal transactions, make sure you close entirely any accounts 
> associated with them.
>
> People have been known to pick up old domains, and try to re-activate 
> accounts with e-mail addresses in those domains. Often, this happens 
> in the form of "I forgot my password," so the company on the other end 
> of the transaction will send a verification message to the 
> now-hijacked address. At that point, the attacker owns the account.

I hadn't thought of that. One of the accounts has never been used for 
anything significant. The other still lists an account that's not 
connected to the account, but has, for our purposes, been inactive for 
several years. It still might exist, though, and it will be a good idea 
to verify that it's not active.

Thanks!

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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