This was a Talking Web newsletter on 27 January 2026 - join the newsletter here.

I hope your weekend was restful or action packed – depending on which you wanted!

Mine started with a visit to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition and ended yesterday in crafting my 89 year old Grandma a birthday card. Can you tell I’m trying to step back from a Mon-Fri jam packed with AI?!

This week’s website task is not glamorous.

It will not make your site prettier.


It will not improve your SEO.


You will not be able to show it off.

But it might be the single thing that saves you from a full-blown website emergency one day.

Your job this week:

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Figure out:

  • Where your domain name is registered
  • What email address that account is under
  • Where your website hosting is
  • What email address that account is under

That’s it.

Because you can have the nicest looking website in the world – but no one will see it if:

A domain expires.
A hosting invoice fails to get paid.
An SSL certificate needs renewing.

If nobody knows where anything lives or who has the login… cue panic.

So this week, you’re just becoming the adult in the room for your own website.

How to do this quickly:

  1. Search your inbox for: “domain” or “hosting”. OR:
  2. Google: “Who hosts this website” and put your domain in.
  3. Use this free SiteVitals work around to find out who your domain registrar is.
  4. Write this info down somewhere safe.

That’s it. Five minutes. In an emergency future-you will be super grateful.

IMPORTANT bonus tip:

If your domain were to expire, your website would stop working but so would any email that uses that domain.

A client recently let their domain expire (after 20 years of owning it – GAH!!!) and with no email, they couldn’t do a password reset on the domain registrars website to go in and beg for it back.

(It was a stressful Saturday evening in December, but I got it sorted for them.)

The moral of that story is don’t use a company email address for your domain registrar account – OR have additional monitoring in place so that you’d be alerted clearly and repeatedly if your domain wasn’t going to renew smoothly. SiteVitals offers this type of “Integrity Monitoring” here.

Your website is an asset.


You should know where the keys are kept.

See you next week,

Lisa

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