Tech fixes · Websites

# Your Web Designer Disappeared? How to Take Back Control of Your Website

Find out where your domain, hosting and website are registered, then recover access to each one in your business’s name. Registrars and hosts can usually restore access when you prove you own the business, even if the designer set up the accounts.

Also searched as: web developer not responding · web designer ghosted me · can’t reach my website guy · who owns my website

- **Starting price:** From $100

- **Where:** Remote, anywhere in the U.S.

- **Quote:** Fixed price before work starts

## Try this first

- Look up who hosts your site and where the domain is registered with an online lookup tool
- Search your email for receipts and welcome emails from registrars and hosts
- Use each provider’s account recovery or ownership dispute process
- Get a full backup of the site as soon as you have access
- Put every account under a business email address you control
- Store the logins in a password manager

Common causes

- The domain registered in the designer’s account
- Hosting billed to the designer’s card
- No admin login ever handed over
- A site built on a platform only the designer could edit

## When it’s more than a quick fix

If the domain is registered to the designer personally and they won’t transfer it, or the hosting is about to lapse, act quickly and keep records of everything.

### How we fix it remotely

We trace every account, help you prove ownership and recover access, back up the site and take over maintenance so you’re never stranded again.

### In-depth guides

- [Locked Out of Your Domain, Website or Google Business Profile? How to Get Back In](https://wisconsintechshop.com/guides/locked-out-of-domain-website-or-google-profile/)
- [The Old IT Person or Web Designer Has All the Passwords: How to Take Back Control](https://wisconsintechshop.com/guides/former-it-person-has-the-passwords/)

Get it fixed

## How a remote fix works

1. **Tell us what’s happening:** Two minutes with the form on this page. No account needed.
2. **Get a fixed price:** A personal reply within one business day, with the price agreed before any work starts.
3. **We fix it remotely:** You approve access, follow progress and pay in your private client portal.

## Related services

- [Website Updates & Fixes](https://wisconsintechshop.com/web-design/website-updates-fixes/): Broken form, outdated hours, a page that will not load or a site nobody knows how to edit? We fix and update existing websites quickly, on any platform. (From $100)
- [Website Maintenance Plans](https://wisconsintechshop.com/hosting/website-maintenance-plans/): Monthly care plans that keep your site updated, backed up, secure and improving, with changes handled by someone who knows your site. (Monthly, quoted per site)
- [Domain & DNS Management](https://wisconsintechshop.com/hosting/domain-dns-management/): Untangle domains and DNS: transfers, renewals, subdomains, email records and the "who has the login?" problem, all documented and in your name. (From $100)

## Questions

### Do I own my website if a designer built it?

It depends on your agreement and whose name the accounts are in. The domain is the most important piece to secure.

### Can I keep my website if I switch developers?

Usually yes, once you have access to the hosting and domain. A new developer can work on the existing site.

### Can you fix this remotely?

We trace every account, help you prove ownership and recover access, back up the site and take over maintenance so you’re never stranded again.

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## Want us to just fix it?

Tell us what’s happening. Most problems like this are fixed remotely, often the same day, and every request gets a personal reply within one business day.

- Big projects and small ones are all welcome
- Fixed-price quotes, no surprise invoices
- You own your code, data and accounts
- A client portal to track progress, invoices and payments
- Rooted in Wisconsin, serving businesses nationwide

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