shrimp - 2:49 am on Aug 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

Recently , my precious son was killed in a plane crash. He was a grad student and had created various websites on scattered domains, mostly on the topic of different types of aviation. He had an Adsense account and some other small (for him) things going on, like Amazon affiliate,etc...I have been unable to find anywhere, any written records of his user and pass info. He was brilliant, a research pilot, so I guess it was all in his head. He NEVER expected to die at 24.

In fact, I had recently asked HIM if he was sure he wanted to inherit MY web endeavors eventually, and told him where my log-in stuff was all written.

It has been a terrificly hard job to try to contact these corporate giants and find out where to fax a death certificate, etc...in order to obtain access to his sites and remove his email addy, or ask for his account to be merged with mine (Adsense)---etc.

It is hard enuf to deal with the shock and saddness, much less the added burden of this detective work I am having to do.

SO, for the sake of your heirs, who very well may be less techie than you, keep some kind of small notebook of site log-on & account info (like if you pay hosting by the yr, 6 months, etc...auto-deduct or check,) whatever. Don't make their jobs 10 times harder when they are least able to deal with it.

[edited by: rogerd at 3:30 am (utc) on Aug. 4, 2004]
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