Old, no really old, website

How do I find out where it's hosted?

[opiesilver]

Hi all,

I'm webmaster for widget.com in Widgetville, USA. Years before I was webmaster there and the company was run out of a basement, the owner had a website up selling his widgets. He then changed his ecommerce suite and changed hosting companies and switched hosting companies again, fired the origional webmaster, went through a couple more, and then found me.

My problem is that the origional website is still out there and no one knows who is hosting it as those records are long lost. The real problem is that the search engines on our strongest keywords will ocassionaly knock the new site out of the listing for a few days in favor of the old one. Happens for about 3 days out of the month almost every month. Sales take a nose dive.

Is there anyway I can track the old site to it's hosting source and get the plug pulled on it?

[vrtlw]

lol,

I would start with an nslookup and whois, perhaps even a traceroute on the IP address. http*//www.**** should start you out.

[martinibuster]

Have you run a whois search?

[opiesilver]

Well the domain is the same as the current one the site is on.

[widget.com...]

It's the index that's the problem

[wigdet.com...] (current)

[widget.com...] (problem child)

I know that the old one is not running from my server.

[bird]

I know that the old one is not running from my server.

I suggest you look again.
Or are there multiple DNS entries for the domain, that will occasionally return the old IP?
Otherwise, there's no way that pages for the same domain could be served from a different host.

[opiesilver]

Thats what I think is happening. How do I stop it?

[bird]

If there are multiple DNS entries, then you simply have to remove the obsolete ones. How to do this depends on who operates your DNS, which may be the registrar, the hosting company, or sometimes a seperate service. Whois will inform you about the name servers, which will lead you to the DNS provider.