This seems to indicate that they are hosting your DNS and using their control of that to prevent you from changing hosts - this is not legal as far as I am aware - your domain name belongs to you, not them, and you are entitled to change your DNS records as you see fit. This is all you need to do to change hosts.
Look into who you registered your domain with, and if it was via the hosting company (always a mistake in my book) you may have a problem, as they often don't put the client's details in when they register it. If this is the case you might have a problem, though I'm sure a lawyer could sort it out for you. With any luck, though, so long as you are registered as the owner of the domain, you ought to be able to have it redelegated to another provider regardless. Your old provider probably can't be forced to remove the old records in their DNS that will claim that they are authoritative for your domain, but that will only matter if people are actively referring to their DNS for lookups, which I doubt. The first step is to do a whois and a dig on your domain and find out how it's been set up. Once you know that you ought to be able to approach either your original registrar (if not the hosting company) and get it changed, or try approaching another registrar (preferably NOT one of the cheap guys who typically try and lock you into using them by making delegating a name away from them very hard) and getting them to do it on your behalf. Guy Richard Pearman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm posting this here because I've never heard of anybody having this sort > of trouble before and want to know if it's at all unusual and what can be > done about it. > > My old hosting company, Elosoft (aka Nextwebhosting) won't set document > encoding for SVGZ files so Firefox can't display them on my site. When I > tried to point this out to them they acted like they were incapable of > reading the words "document encoding" or any sentences which contained them. > > I'm trying to move to another hosting company. When I didn't respond to > Elosoft's request for payment for another years service, they sent me an > email claiming to have received payment from my credit card. Upon > investigation, I discovered that this payment hadn't been processed so I > stopped it. However Elosoft haven't stopped hosting my site and are thus > preventing anybody from accessing the version on my new host. Elosoft claim > that the contract (meaning their website, or at least parts of it) say that > I need to give them 30 days notice of cancelation. I think the wording in > ambiguous and I also suspect it has changed since I pointed this out to > them. > > Anyway, is this sort of thing at all unusual? How do other people deal with > it? Can I get the internet to acnowledge my new hosting company without > Elosoft's cooperation? Anybody else had problems with Elosoft? > > Richard Pearman http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ > The next stage in the evolution of web comics: > http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/details/listing.php?comicID=4415 > > > > > > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" > ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
