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6zap problem

wulfhere
wulfhere Posts: 116 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
Hi, for some time now I've had an email account with a company called '6zap.com'. They were quite reliable and I had registered my email their on several websites that I use. However, just this morning I tried to log in to my bookmarked email account with 6zap and I find some dodgy site for selling scooters http://www.6zap.com/.

I've tried to google the problem but not come up with anything. Anyone have any ideas, thanks.
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  • busenbust
    busenbust Posts: 4,782 Forumite
    :huh: ..................
  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    sounds like the domain name and/or the hosting has expired and hasn't been renewed to me
  • wulfhere
    wulfhere Posts: 116 Forumite
    Yes, that sounds plausible.

    That's really annoying as I had a load of messages on their email servers.

    Am I to assume that that's it, there's nothing I can do.

    Oh well, I guess that's a lesson.
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    As post 3 says I come across a fair few sites that have gone and that web site has taken its place
  • cit_k
    cit_k Posts: 24,812 Forumite
    Thats a parking page, looks like the company has probably gone under, or done a runner with the money and just parked all the sites instead. Im guessing the site was probably ran by some kid in his bedroom with a reseller account he bought on ebay for a tenner or so, and it got shut down.
    [greenhighlight]but it matters when the most senior politician in the land is happy to use language and examples that are simply not true.
    [/greenhighlight][redtitle]
    The impact of this is to stigmatise people on benefits,
    and we should be deeply worried about that    [/redtitle](house of lords debate, talking about Cameron)
  • wulfhere
    wulfhere Posts: 116 Forumite
    It was a free site. I guess the intention was to slowly try to persuade people to buy into it over time. Obviously he couldn't be bothered with it.

    Very irritating as I had a load of messages on there which I'd like to have kept.
  • wulfhere
    wulfhere Posts: 116 Forumite
    Do you know if the domain name (let's say by me) were renewed, then all the messages would become available again?
  • busenbust
    busenbust Posts: 4,782 Forumite
    wulfhere wrote: »
    Do you know if the domain name (let's say by me) were renewed, then all the messages would become available again?
    IMO, unlikely (very).
  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    wulfhere wrote: »
    Do you know if the domain name (let's say by me) were renewed, then all the messages would become available again?
    it's very unlikely as you would need access to the server(s) that the content was stored on.
  • digp
    digp Posts: 2,013 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    according to MBAM the site above is "malicious" according to the IP protector.
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