A friend recently asked me to assist him to rescue a domain that he registered through someone who is now out of business and unable to assist him. We discovered his domain name registration had expired, but no one had registered the name and it was available. I assisted him in finding a good domain registration service, a good domain hosting service and got him back in control of his domain name. The process was relatively painless.
Once we got things settled, I also helped him get his old email account working again and showed him how to use his email software to pull his email from the hosting service. He was very grateful for the help.
His wife has a similar situation. I will outline the process of assisting her here in the comment section associated with this article. I hope it will make for interesting reading and that it will help you to understand a bit more about how this Internet thing works.
